Parque Arqueológico El Tendal — Attraction in San Andrés y Sauces

A very interesting place to visit with caves that hosted early settlers to La Palma - the Benahoritas, between 100-300AD, a museum that depicted their lives, and artefacts retrieved from the area around the Barranco. I was shown the trail down to the bottom of the gorgeous by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic young lady, I didn't get her name but she made the walk so interesting and was passionate about the Benahoritas, the Barranca and it's fauna and flora, I'd decided to visit on the back of positive TA reviews, I can only mirror what was said by other visitors - a very interesting and worhwhile way to spend a...

We enjoyed our visit of the El Tendal archaeological park with the museum. It's a very well planned museum, with exhibitions, touch screens, a movie and nicely designed information charts. The highlight was the guided tour into the valley and to the cave. On our 1st visit, we were too late for the last tour and could come back the next day to do the tour still. Our tour guide gave lots of info's about the life of prespanic humans, plants and food etc. She could answer all of our questions. It was really great! I can highly recommend the museum...

They’ve put a lot of money into this but it was quite boring - these kind of caves you can see everywhere on the island and the truth is they don’t know much about religious practices or the petroglyphs. It would be more interesting if there was information about local plants and their properties and uses, perhaps a pottery workshop for kids or a dress up something like that which most modern museums do. Unfortunately as it is it would only be worth the stop if it was free entry or donation based. For a price of €8pp I...