Playa de las Teresitas, Tenerife’s absolutely top beach according to many – including us – is a 1,5 km long beach with beautiful sand and palm trees.
It’s one of the most popular beaches among Tenerife’s inhabitants. The Anaga mountains protects it from one side and a breakwater 500 m off shore on the other side, making it warm and safe. Not a beach for the surfers for once.
We we’re introduced to it as Tenerife’s only white beach, but actually it’s golden and not white. Maybe the sand whitens a bit in the summer heat…?
The beach is artificial, man made with sand shipped in from Sahara in Africa when the beach was enlarged around 1973.
We’ve seen Sahara sand before, in Fuerteventura, another Canary Island, but that sand were more white and more fine than this one.
It’s located about 7 km outside the capital of Tenerife, Santa Cruz, adjacent to the fishing village of San Andres up about the eastern corner of the island. It’s only about 150 km from the coast of Morocco.
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We didn’t experienced it as a typical tourist beach, more like a popular beach for the locals and maybe that’s why it was lacking a bit when it came to the facilities like dressing rooms, showers, toilets and lunch restaurants.
There were several stands with beverages and more simple food like bocadillo sandwiches and maybe some tapas.
However, for the hungry Lifecruiser it wasn’t enough, so we left for some food hunting… *giggles*
Lifecruiser ♥ Beaches
I can see why you wanted to have more facilities, but wow what a beautiful place. I could use someplace warm like this about now.
Have a terrific weekend.
Still look like a decent beach even though it is artificial
It must have changed a lot because it wasn’t by far the most beautifullest. It is the only strand with white sand that’s true and the sand has been imported from Morrocco. I remember when we came there once in 1995 or 6, the beach was closed because they had added fresh sand from Morocco but with scorpions in it ! Imagine the catastrophe !!
Wow, yes Gattina that really must have been a catastrophe – and may have follow the beach long after that. People have problems to forget such things… I must ask: which beach or beaches were the most beautiful according to you and why? Please describe the beach/beaches a bit too
I hate typical tourist beach, so it was a good choice to me. I bet you had a great food hunt too
You’re worried about people being scared off the beach by the expat scorpions? Think how horrible it must have been for the poor scorpions. One minute they’re enjoying the fine heat of the Arabian sands, and then suddenly they’re on the oceanfront. They must have gone mad.
Wonderful flowers and a releaxing Beach, I think.
White sands? Hmmm.
I agree,
white is what it is outside here right now. Lot’s of white, cold powder.
Beautiful! I would love to be there on the beach right now- so warm and relaxing looking. A great change from this cold weather and so much snow that we can`t see to safely back out of our own driveways into the street. Might get warmer with rain next week. Hope so as the rain would help lower the high snow banks.
Glad you are continuing taking trips. Your mother would love that.
I rather like the sound of that beach with no tourists, never mind about the flash amenities. As for food, here we usually take a picnic lunch to the beach with heaps of food and drinks.
I love the gorgeous profusion of flowers in the top photo of this blog. What are they?
Wow, I love the sea of the purple coloured flowers. The pictures are awesome. Odd suggested that we should take a trip also to Tenerife sometime later.
@Puss in Boots: the flowers are a Bougainvillea even though it hardly shows in the photo since I’ve taken it on a distance and zoomed in. They’re very common everywhere in those Mediterranean countries, but not at all over here in Sweden. I guess we don’t have the climate for it
the violet flowers are beautiful! I hate scorpions! I’m always afraid with such insects! but that place looks very relaxing now!
I often prefer coming across beaches that are mostly frequented by locals. Interesting atmosphere and fun to observe cultural differences in terms of beach activity. That being said, it’s nice to have certain parts of the tourist infrastructure especially a decent selection for eats.
It’s a great beach,one of the best on the island we are lucky to live here!
I don’t mind if it’s artificial. It still looks great and is one of the most beautiful beaches on the island.