Feel Tenerife — Attraction in La Matanza de Acentejo

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Feel Tenerife…we felt Tenerife as well as tapped into all our other senses on this remarkable 2-day tour. The tour was pleasing to our sense of smell with the aromas of the nature around us, the food prepared for us, the wine we tasted and the markets we shopped. Our sense of taste was delighted with the amazing food and wine that we were able to sample during our visits. Our sense of sight was rewarded with the beautiful scenery in every direction we looked and postcard worthy photos at every turn. Our sense of hearing was accomplished with the sounds of nature and eagles flying over our heads. Our sense of touch was felt in the rocks we handled, the hugs we received, the handshakes from friends along the way, but we felt Tenerife fully with the feelings of friendships we made along our travels with Jamie. We felt the love Jamie has for his island and for the clients he leads on his tours. You can tell this is not a job for Jamie as much as it is a passion.

We were greeted on our first day in an immaculately clean, quiet comfortable vehicle. It was stocked with water and additional jackets that were supplied if needed.

We quickly knew Jamie loved feeding our taste for knowledge about Tenerife. He is extremely knowledgeable about the culture and life on the island since he has lived there his whole life, and has a degree in tourism as well. There wasn’t a question we asked that he didn’t have the answers to. Conversation with Jamie was effortless from the moment we met. He was knowledgeable about the wine we tasted at the Bodega La Haya winery as well. Vicky, a very friendly, special lady was our guide at the winery and she prepared a wonderful wine tasting and tapas to go along with the 3 different wines we tasted. We felt like we were sitting down to drink wine with our family at the dinner table. The food was perfectly delicious and consisted of local specialties that were unlike any we had eaten at the restaurants we had visited.

Jamie knew all the local places to visit and that is what we prefer. We like to hit a few of the more touristy areas, but love local out of the way places mixed in. Along with the winery we also visited an amazing local restaurant where they served a lunch fit for royalty, a café where we sampled a local barraquito coffee, AMAZING! We also visited Mount Tiede, the Drago de Icod de los Vinos, a live Dragon Tree that is believed to be close to a thousand years old, farmers markets, churches and monasteries where Jamie pointed out little hidden treasures along the way.

I would not hesitate to book another tour with Jamie the next time we are in Tenerife as there is so much left to discover about this beautiful island. Thank you for the best, most informative and satisfying tour Tim and I have ever been a part of. We truly...

We did the Secrets of the Volcanoes tour with Jaime and it was one of the best tours we had during our stay in Tenerife! It was different from tours done by other companies for several reasons.

Firstly, it was interactive. We had plenty of stops in various places where we could observe and touch various lava/lava ash formations, went to a lava tube and saw a lava arch!

Secondly, Jaime is a super friendly, positive, honest, open, and interesting person to communicate with, who has a TON of knowledge about volcanoes, the island and Canary Islands overall. We learnt so much about volcanoes, magma, different lava types, how volcanic islands are formed and how Tenerife itself has been formed! In addition to this, he would answer all additional questions we had about the island and tell even more interesting facts in general!

Thirdly, though we had a lot of activities, the tour was relaxing without any rush so we could enjoy the view. It also included some hiking to further appreciate and find out about volcanoes even more! This is important to mention because other tour guides usually drive you to a place, tell to see this, this and that, and leave you alone to find them which is overwhelming..

Finally, we had an opportunity to enjoy some traditional food like a barraquito and an almond cookie as well as had a free time for lunch in El Médano, a small fishing village where one can find a lot of various places serving really tasty fresh seafood for a good price. The food was not included in the tour price, but I really enjoyed this fact because we had a freedom to choose what we wanted to have ourselves as tours guided by other companies including food offer meals that are almost always of a very low quality.

I am glad we had this tour and found out about Feel Tenerife because these tours really make you FEEL and fall in love with this beautiful island!

We had a lot of tours and have seen almost all the island already but I am looking forward to come back next year and have at least one more tour with Jaime to discover even...

I cannot speak highly enough of Jaime and Feel Tenerife tours! This was our second tour with Jaime, and again he exceeded expectations in every way. This time, my wife and I brought along our best friends for a tour of the Teide National Park from our too-short cruise port-stop at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. As before, Jaime responded to all of my pre-cruise emails promptly and warmly. With the excellent information Jaime provided, including annotated port-area maps, we were able to meet him at his waiting, super-comfortable, super-quiet, fully-electric Mercedes van and be off on our tour within minutes of our ship’s arrival.

Jaime is a certified guide, with many years of university training in the fascinating culture and nature of Tenerife. He freely and engagingly shared with us his immense knowledge of the history and ecology of Tenerife and his deep personal commitment to the environment.

While both my wife and I have toured volcanic areas in North and South America, Hawaii, Southern Europe and more , we have never, ever, have experienced in one place the variety and scope of volcanic action and features present around El Teide. Jaime’s intriguing, in-depth explanations brought all of these to life, often exposing fascinating details right in front of us that we’d have missed without his direction.

As a bonus, we were treated to Tenerife’s signature drink, the Barraquito, a luscious coffee and local-liquor concoction enjoyed daily on Tenerife as a convivial morning and afternoon reset.

Jaime offers many more itineraries beyond our abbreviated if enthralling tour customized to match our short port-stop time. We are certain to return for more experiences with Jaime and Feel Tenerife. HIGHLY...