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Deep Divers is a dive centre in Palm-Mar, in the south of Tenerife, rated as a PADI 5 Star centre. It offers everything from try dives for beginners to advanced PADI certifications, including the Deep Diver and Night Diver specialties, with trips to wrecks, volcanic landscapes and deep open-water sites. It works with small groups and its team speaks English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Rapa Nui Surfcamp is a surf school and surf camp in Costa Calma, on Fuerteventura, which has been running daily courses in small groups for almost twenty years, for every level from beginners to advanced surfers. Lessons take place at several spots, including Jandía, La Pared and Esquinzo, with a shuttle from your accommodation and equipment included. It also offers yoga sessions, board rental and a surf shop.
Astroguide Tenerife runs stargazing tours in Teide National Park for small groups, at an unhurried pace. Using a high-end telescope, the tour shows planets of the Solar System, nebulae and star clusters, and teaches visitors to recognise the constellations and find their way around the night sky. The explanations come from a guide with Starlight accreditation, and a private tour is also available.
Ola Diving Center is a PADI five-star dive centre in the Club Atlantis complex in San Eugenio Bajo, Costa Adeje. It offers try dives, PADI courses, specialties, boat snorkelling and technical diving with nitrox and trimix. Operating two boats from two ports gives it a wide choice of dive sites, its instructors speak several languages, and it also runs a divemaster school.
Red Star Surf is a surf school and surf camp in Caleta de Famara, Lanzarote, which has been teaching surfing in the village since 2010. It runs small-group lessons for beginners and intermediates, private lessons and children's lessons from age six, along with kitesurfing and yoga. Its instructors are certified by the Canarian Surf Federation, the International Surfing Association and the Royal Life Saving Society.
Fuerte Explorer is an excursion and activity agency with an office in Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura. At sea it offers catamaran trips with lunch and dolphin watching, cetacean safaris, a glass-bottom boat, jet skis, sport fishing and trips to the island of Lobos. On land it adds jeep safaris, buggy tours and day trips to Lanzarote, with pick-up from several points on the island.
Líneas Salmón is a family-run shipping company founded in 1969 in the south of Gran Canaria. Its regular boat line links Arguineguín, Anfi del Mar, Puerto Rico and Puerto de Mogán, with the option of getting on or off at every stop. It also runs a dolphin watching trip off the island's south coast. Its white and green boats are adapted for people with reduced mobility and have a bar on board.
Scuba Legends Dive Center is a PADI 5 Star dive centre and instructor development centre in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, on the second floor of the Puerto Cinco shopping centre. It offers snorkelling trips, try dives, courses from beginner to professional level, specialties and guided dives for certified divers, as well as trips to the Museo Atlántico underwater museum at Playa Blanca.
Can-Am buggy tours from Tamaimo up to Teide National Park, including a sunset option.
Jet ski centre in Puerto Colón with safaris to Los Gigantes, La Caleta, El Puertito and Palm-Mar.
Boat trips from the port of Vueltas, in Valle Gran Rey (La Gomera), to watch whales and dolphins off the island’s coast. Customer reviews mention dolphins and pilot whales most often. Bookings by phone or WhatsApp.
Planet Surfcamps Fuerteventura is a surfcamp with its own surf school in Corralejo, in the north of the island, some two hundred metres from the beach and five hundred from both the surf spot and the town centre. Guests stay in a surf house with two, four and eight-bed rooms or in a private apartment, and the packages combine five, seven or fourteen nights with four, five or ten days of tuition.
School3s Surf School Lanzarote is a surf, paddle surf and yoga school based in Puerto del Carmen, in the municipality of Tías. It was founded by Diego Gabrielli and Barbara Antonini, instructors who settled on the island after travelling half the world to practise those same three disciplines. The team has more than seven years of surf, SUP, YogaSUP and yoga courses on Lanzarote behind it, and works in Spanish, English and Italian.
Ecological whale and dolphin watching trips leaving from Pontoon 4 at Puerto Colón, in Adeje. The boat sails with groups of no more than six passengers on two-hour outings through the Teno-Rasca Special Conservation Area, carrying hydrophones so passengers can hear the clicks and whistles of the cetaceans. The company has worked on marine conservation since 1990 and holds authorisation from the Canary Islands Government and the Spanish ministry for ecological transition.
Famaraíso is a paragliding company based at Famara, on the north coast of Lanzarote, within the municipality of Teguise. Its main activity is tandem flights with a professional pilot over the volcanoes and the ocean, and it also gives training for anyone who wants to fly solo. When there is too much wind to fly, the team teaches kitesurfing instead, and flights are booked on the company website.
A watersports centre in El Médano, on Paseo Mercedes de la Roja, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona. It operates under the name Red Rock Surf & Kite Academy and brings together surfing, kitesurfing, wingfoiling, e-foiling and stand up paddle, with beginner courses, classes for advanced levels and equipment rental. Surf lessons last up to two hours and run with a maximum of six students per instructor, on foam boards in a range of volumes.
A tandem paragliding operator based in Adeje, in the south of Tenerife. Take off is from Taucho and the flight runs at around 800 metres above the Barranco del Infierno, with Mount Teide in the background. Three formats are offered: a calm flight intended for first timers, an acrobatic one, and a long flight. The crew is multilingual and works in Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch and Italian.
Excursiones Yani is a boat trip company based at Puerto de Vueltas, in Valle Gran Rey, on La Gomera. It works mainly in whale and dolphin watching and also covers sea crossings between the ports of Valle Gran Rey and Playa Santiago. When demand and the weather allow, it sails to the Los Órganos natural monument on the northern coast of the island. Trips are made aboard a catamaran with two decks and two underwater viewing wells.
OTRO MODO is a German speaking surf school and surf camp in Morro Jable, in the south of Fuerteventura, founded in 2007. It runs courses all year for beginners, improvers, families and children, together with surf guiding, board hire, stand up paddle courses and rental, yoga, Spanish lessons, excursions and its own shop. Accommodation ranges from a hostel to a villa by the surf spot.
Splash Gomera is a diving and watersports centre at Playa de Santiago, in the south of La Gomera. It occupies the Club Laurel beach club, in the grounds of the Hotel Jardín Tecina, a few metres from the sand and close to the harbour where its rib is moored. Besides diving it offers snorkelling, kayaking and stand up paddleboarding, and it is a PADI training centre for every level, from beginner to professional.
Punkfish Diving is a dive centre based in Los Canarios, in the municipality of Fuencaliente de La Palma, at the volcanic southern tip of the island. It works in small groups and uses four-wheel-drive vehicles to reach the more remote stretches of coast. The programme runs from snorkelling and try dives through to advanced courses, professional training and technical diving, with experienced guides and service in several languages.
Surfers Island has run as a surf and kitesurf school in Morro Jable, on the Jandía peninsula, since 2008. Its station stands on Calle Melindraga, and from there it organises surf lessons on the beaches of La Pared, Esquinzo and Cruz Roja and kitesurf lessons in the Risco del Paso lagoon at Sotavento. It teaches every level, with a maximum of eight students per instructor and transfers from accommodation nearby.
A boat excursion company based at the harbour in Morro Jable, in the south of Fuerteventura. Its offer is organised around three trips: the Odyssee 3, a glass bottom boat; a pirate themed voyage designed for families and groups; and an outing devoted to watching dolphins along the coast of Morro Jable. The company has been running these activities for more than fifteen years.
A PADI 5 star dive centre in Costa Adeje, by Torviscas beach. Its programme runs from a first try dive up to Divemaster level, with specialities such as night diving, underwater photography and wreck diving, and courses for children as well. The dive sites lie between six and forty metres deep and are reached in half an hour at most. The centre is under joint German and Spanish management.
Naviera Nortour runs the crossing between Corralejo, in the municipality of La Oliva, and Isla de Lobos, aboard the Ferry Majorero and in about 20 minutes, with several departures a day. The meeting point is at the entrance to the Puerto de Corralejo, next to the Bar La Lonja. Access to the islet is regulated and an authorisation from the Cabildo de Fuerteventura is required; it can be arranged when booking the ticket online.
Lanzarote Non Stop Divers is a PADI dive centre in the Papagayo shopping centre in Playa Blanca, in the south of Lanzarote, a short walk from Playa Dorada. It works in small groups matched to each diver's certification and experience, and gives access to more than thirty dive sites around the island. It offers snorkelling, try dives, courses from entry level up to divemaster and instructor, and specialities.
Fuerteventura Buceo is a PADI certified dive centre in Morro Jable, on the Jandía peninsula in the south of Fuerteventura. Trips run on the centre's own boat, Diving my Life, which leaves from Morro Jable with a certified dive guide and a choice of one or two dives. The programme covers try dives for people with no experience from the age of ten, PADI courses at every level and snorkelling outings along the Jandía coast.
Royal Delfin Catamaran sails from Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje for whale and dolphin watching along the south-west coast of Tenerife. The vessel carries sixteen panoramic windows below the waterline and a submerged viewing compartment, and specialist guides on board work in Spanish, English, German and French. The longest crossing includes a swimming stop in the bay of Masca. Places are booked online or by telephone.
Mahan Trekking is a guided mountain walking service on Fuerteventura, based in Morro Jable in the municipality of Pájara. Its offer centres on day hikes and multi-day treks, always in small groups and led by a qualified mountain guide, with an approach framed around nature and responsible tourism. Among the protected areas it names is the Parque Rural de Betancuria. The site is published in English, German and Spanish.
Excursiones Pura Vida sails from Puerto de Vueltas, in Valle Gran Rey, on a traditional boat adapted for cetacean watching and capped at ten guests per outing. The programme has three strands: cetacean watching, the route to the Los Órganos natural monument, and private charter for couples, families or groups. The company works in Spanish, English and German.
An excursion and transfer agency based in Los Cancajos, in Breña Baja. Its programme covers much of La Palma: hiking in the Caldera de Taburiente, Marcos y Cordero, Cubo de la Galga and the Ruta de Los Volcanes, coach outings, astronomy at the Roque de Los Muchachos and wine tourism, plus cetacean watching and a kayak route to the Cueva Bonita.
A PADI and SSI dive centre facing the sea on Avenida de las Playas, in Puerto del Carmen. It works with small groups and covers everything from a first try dive to professional divemaster training, taking in advanced courses and specialities such as deep, night and wreck diving and nitrox. The premises include a wet room, a compressor room, its own dive shop, a terrace and reception, with nitrox service and certified air quality.
Organic aloe vera farm and processing plant in La Oliva, northern Fuerteventura, on the FV-10 road. It grows its own aloe on the Las Coronas estate and processes it in a plant opened in 2020. One of the pioneering aloe companies in the Canaries, selling its production direct.
Family micro-winery of the DO La Palma in Los Canarios, inside the volcanic municipality of Fuencaliente. It occupies a traditional 1919 building surrounded by its own vineyards, between 500 and 650 metres up. It makes a single wine, a dry white from the Bujariego grape grown on volcanic soil and worked with minimal intervention.
A working farm at Guaza, in Arona, southern Tenerife, growing Canarian bananas since 1977. The visit walks the plantation and the avocado and mango plots, and ends with a tasting of the farm's own produce. This is real agrotourism, a holding that still produces, not a set piece.
Agro-tourism experience on a working banana plantation in Arucas, with a guided walk through the finca and a tasting. Booking ahead is recommended.
Skyline Cruiser Tenerife runs boat trips from Puerto Colón in Costa Adeje on board the motor yacht Skyline Cruiser. Its trips range from sunset cruises to whale and dolphin watching outings along the south coast of Tenerife, and the boat can also be chartered privately. Every excursion includes food, snorkelling equipment and towels. Boarding takes place at pontoon 2 of the harbour, where the crew meets passengers.
El Cardón NaturExperience is an agency in Buenavista del Norte specialising in hiking in the Barranco de Masca and experiences in the Teno massif, with local guides and small groups. It also runs whale and dolphin watching trips, sea kayaking at Los Gigantes, bike rental and excursions to Teide, including the summit with a permit, and to Anaga. It is certified by Biosphere.
Barracuda Scuba Diving Lanzarote is a PADI five-star dive centre in Playa Honda. It offers try dives, guided dives at sites such as La Catedral, the sunken ships, the Blue Hole, La Pared or Punta Tiñosa, night dives, PADI courses from Scuba Diver up to Divemaster and specialities with an underwater scooter (DPV), with new equipment and its own facilities.
Sunset tours above the clouds in Teide National Park with a welcome glass of sparkling wine, and guided stargazing through a 500 mm telescope with professional astronomers. Three options: sunset only (1.5 h), sunset and stargazing (3 h), and a VIP version with hotel pick-up (about 4.5 h door to door). Tours run every day of the week.
Aromas Tenerife is a food space in La Laguna offering hands-on cooking workshops and classes led by professional chefs for small groups. Participants cook, share and taste what they have made, with sessions on Canarian and market cooking, international dishes, baking and brunch. It also hosts tastings, private events, celebrations and team-building activities for companies.
Small certified organic winery in Garafía, making one of La Palma's few biologically grown wines.
Organic banana farm in the Aridane Valley (La Palma) with guided tours and tasting, farmed without chemicals.
Fuerteventura's only astrotourism company: stargazing with telescopes.
Small-group astrotourism: guided stargazing and Gran Telescopio visits.
Award-winning volcanic winery in San Bartolomé, Lanzarote, near La Geria. It offers guided vineyard visits and tastings, with a terrace facing the Timanfaya landscape.
PERMANENTLY CLOSED. Dive centre in Caleta de Sebo, La Graciosa.
A historic winery in an 18th-century estate in La Geria, with a tasting of three volcanic Malvasia wines paired with local goat cheese.
A winery in the volcanic heart of La Geria, with vines planted in lapilli pits, offering guided tours and tastings of volcanic Malvasia wines.
The Club de buceo El Sebadal is an association of divers in San Sebastián de La Gomera. Together with the town council it has organised try-dive days at Playa de La Cueva, with a briefing beforehand and every participant accompanied by a diver or instructor, and it works with the AGLAYMA association on cleaning the seabed along the coast of La Gomera.
One hour on a jet ski along the south coast of Tenerife from Marina San Miguel, following a guide on his own jet ski past Montaña Amarilla, Montaña Roja, the bay of Costa del Silencio and Las Galletas. No experience is needed; drivers must be at least 16 and passengers at least 5.
A medieval dinner show at the Castillo de San Miguel in Aldea Blanca (San Miguel de Abona), in the south of Tenerife: knights competing in tournaments and games on horseback and with swords, a jester and a three-course dinner with free-flowing water, wine and soft drinks. It lasts about three hours, with an option that includes hotel pickup.
A guided route of about three hours driving a buggy up to Teide National Park, with stops at La Caldera and Ramón Caminero, a pass by the Siete Cañadas and a climb to 2150 metres at the foot of Teide. Hotel pickup in Puerto de la Cruz, protective gear and a tasting of snacks and drinks at the end are included.
A ninety-minute boat trip from the fishermen's pier in the port of Los Cristianos to see dolphins and, with luck, whales off the south coast of Tenerife, with a guide who talks about the species and a stop of about 15 minutes for a swim near the Cueva del Amor sea cave. The guide speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.
A day trip from the south of Tenerife to La Gomera: ferry from the port of Los Cristianos to San Sebastián de La Gomera, then a coach tour to the Roque de Agando, the laurel forests of Garajonay National Park, Hermigua and Agulo, with lunch included. Pickup from hotels in the south and a guide who speaks Spanish, English, French and German.
A guided astronomy session in Teide National Park, at more than 2300 metres, using professional telescopes. After a short introduction to the night sky you learn to find your bearings without a compass and to locate the zodiac constellations. It lasts around 1 hour 15 minutes, with an official guide who speaks Spanish, and children under 8 cannot take part.
A guided night walk of about 5 kilometres through Las Cañadas del Teide, starting and ending at the Parador Nacional, learning to recognise the stars in the Teide sky. It passes Cañada Blanca and the Roques de García, lasts about two and a half hours and includes a Spanish-speaking guide and torches. On Fridays there is an option with transport from Puerto de la Cruz and Garachico.
A 50-minute guided visit to Banana Eco-plantation, an organic banana farm on the El Rincón road in La Orotava with views of Teide. It explains how the Canary banana is grown and sold, what sets it apart from other bananas and how the farm's ecosystem works. It ends with a tasting of bananas and a shot made from the same fruit.
A day trip by coach from Puerto de la Cruz through Teide National Park, Masca, Garachico and Icod de los Vinos, with a guide who speaks Spanish and other languages. It takes in the Roques de García, the natural rock pools of Garachico and the Drago Milenario, with about an hour and a half free for lunch at your own expense. It lasts 8 to 9 hours.
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