Due to the multifarious reactions that followed the article on “Bad tourism in Tenerife” and “Changes in South Tenerife“, I have decided to put some questions to an Ex- British Tourist Guide who has been living in Tenerife since 1971.

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Locals, mayors, entrepeneurs, politicians and tourists know that the south of Tenerife needs a change. As we all know the southern parts of all the Canary Islands have been invaded by the Brits since the 1960’s, thus attracting the worst kind of cheap English tourism available via holiday packs, all inclusive hotels and night bars and discos.

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Long time ago, around the 1960’s, Tenerife was known as one of the poshest paradisiacal islands of the entire world. Naturalists like Von Humboldt were astonished by the views of ‘El Valle de La Orotava‘ and el ‘Puerto de la Cruz‘, ships and planes were coming and going with high class tourism who stayed in grand hotels like the ‘Casino Taoro’ in Las Arenas and every single one of the tourists knew they were in a special place and thus respected it. It was another time…

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Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1920’s. A girl aged ten was periodically sent by her parents to get some fruits from the Badajoz Ravine in the south of the island. One day, she did not come back. The story says that the little girl felt tired and thought it would be appropriate to have a nap under a pear tree. When she woke up, she realized that a man dressed in white was staring at her, from just a couple of meters. Not as expected, the child didn’t feel threatened. In fact, she felt great. The man in white inspired her good and safe feelings.

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Everybody knows that the best carnival in the world is held on Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), but just after this one comes Tenerife, in Canary Islands, the paradise islands of Spain.

This year the Carnival of Tenerife will start on the 26th of January with plenty of events like the Presentación de Candidatas a Reina Teatro del Círculo de Amistad XII de Enero (This is to become the Carnival’s Queen), and it will finish on the 21st of February with the celebration of the Gran Concurso de Automóviles Antiguos, which is a competition of antique cars.

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Perhaps one might think that  information on water parks might not fit on winter but it turns out that in the Canary Islands it is not that cold … This is to say that one can go to the beach and get tanned on the very first of January, so let us inform you about this fantastic theme park in case anyone is thinking of going to Tenerife at Christmas.

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