Holidays To Tenerife: Climb The Highest Peak In The The Atlantic

Are you looking forward to spend your holidays to Tenerife? Are you looking for adventure? Do you want to feel that great adrenalin rush? If yes, then you may want to step into your hiking boots, strap on your backpack, and extend your trekking pole to climb Mount Teide.

Mount Teide is an active volcano located on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. At 3,718 meters, it is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Summiting the mountain would be a satisfying personal feat considering that it is the third highest volcano in the world when measured from its base on the ocean floor. Mount Teide is part of the Teide National Park, an 18,900-hectare protected area that was officially named as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on June 29, 2007. Its magnificent natural beauty makes it one of the most visited national parks in the world.

The nutrient- and mineral-rich soil around the park makes the park a perfect place to support a large variety of plant species. In fact, there are 168 vascular plant species in the park, 33 of which are endemic to Tenerife.

There are forests of Canary Island Pine covering the slopes of the volcano. The weather at higher altitudes provide great conditions for delicate species such as the Canary Island cedar to grow. Flowering plants such as white broom, wallflower, daisy, and violet, all of which have adapted to the rugged conditions on the volcano, are the dominant species.

In addition, the park has a huge variety of invertebrate fauna, more than 40 percent of which are endemic species. Here you can see strange and unique spiders, beetles, hemipterans, dipterans, and hymenopterae. Birds such as the blue chaffinch, Bethelot’s pipit, wild canary, and kestrel can be found soaring in the sky.

You may find the rare endemic reptiles such as the Canary Island lizard, gecko, and skink. There are also mammals that make the mountain park their home such as bats, mouflon, rabbit, house mouse, black rat, feral cat, and Algerian Hedgehog.

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