6-day community camp · Northern Tenerife
The Camp 2 🌋
Fri 28 Aug – Wed 2 Sept. A slow week of hidden villages, volcanic hikes, and ocean sunsets — with people who feel like friends by day two.
📍 the house — Teide on one side, the ocean on the other (photos soon)
I believe the best trips are the ones where you fully emerge — into the culture, the landscape, the people, the vibes. Not a checklist of sights, but a slow week where things actually sink in.
So: we'll stay in a beautiful house looking straight at Teide and the ocean, and spend six days moving through the hidden, non-touristy side of the island — places I collected over years of actually living there, not from a guidebook. Somewhere between the hiking and the long dinners, we'll hopefully build some real friendships, eat very well 🍷, properly recharge, and see some genuinely magical nature and culture along the way.
- 🚌 no car — bus & foot, slow travel
- ✨ second season — London, Barcelona & friends
- 🫂 10–16 people
Northern Tenerife 🌴
The quiet, green, dramatic side of the island — where the culture is actually rooted. Ocean swims at sunset 🌅. Volcanic rock pools carved by the Atlantic.
La Orotava
Steep cobbled streets and old merchant houses, Teide watching over the whole valley.
Anaga Rural Park
A mist-fed laurel forest older than the Mediterranean — deep ravines, hidden hamlets.
Teide
3,715m — the highest point in Spain, and a volcanic caldera that looks more like Mars.
La Laguna
The old capital. Colonial streets and wooden balconies, still properly lived-in.
Playa Los Patos
Wild black volcanic sand. No resorts, no sun loungers, just the Atlantic.
Our house
Looking straight out over the valley — Teide on one side, ocean on the other.
Experiences ✨
Community evenings — homemade food, wine 🍷, and good conversation over the fire 🔥. Room for work too, at the house, an old library, or a cafe with good coffee ☕.
Culture
- ·Wandering old towns that feel lived-in, not staged for tourists
- ·Specialty coffee, local bars, and some genuinely friendly people
- ·A possible detour to Chinamada — cave houses cut into the rock
Hiking & walks 🥾
- ·Anaga's laurel forest — moss-draped and otherworldly
- ·Banana plantations rolling down toward the sea
- ·Teide's volcanic, almost martian landscape 🌋
- ·The “sea of clouds” — standing above a blanket of cloud, looking down at white
- ·Optional trail running, yoga, or mindful calisthenics
☀️ Weather — warm and mild, +28°C on average
🥾 Physical level — a few hours walking some days, nothing extreme
Optional · for the brave
Ruta 0.4.0 🌋
The big one. An overnight climb up Teide — Spain's highest point at 3,715m — timed to reach the summit for sunrise 🌞. Cold, dark, legs burning, and then the whole island appears beneath you as the sky turns gold. Genuinely legendary, and genuinely hard. There's a gentler alternative running alongside it for anyone who'd rather not.
The house 🏡
A beautiful house with an unreal, uninterrupted view of Teide on one side and the ocean on the other. Rooms for 1–3 people.
📷 living room, soon
📷 the view, soon
📷 golden hour, soon
The practical bits
470 EUR
≈ 400 GBP
Fri 28 Aug – Wed 2 Sept
10–16 people
Included
- Accommodation for 6 days
- Homemade food & drinks, most evenings and mornings
- All organisation and guiding
Not included
- Flights — roughly £30–60 one-way from London, or €40–50 from Barcelona
- Bars & cafes out and about