Two parks in the Canary Islands. Teide National Park has 48 tickets and tours to book; Timanfaya National Park has 13 tickets and tours to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Teide is the volcano at the centre of Tenerife and the most visited national park in Spain, and it is reached from every resort on the island in an hour to an hour and a half, so the choice is between the coach tour, the guided hike, the cable car and the stars. The half- and full-day coach tours from the southern resorts and from Puerto de la Cruz drive up through the pine forest to the Las Cañadas caldera, stop at the Roques de García and the visitor centre, and in the full-day versions include the cable-car ticket, which must otherwise be booked online days ahead in the season; the small-group van tours with a guide and lunch see the same places with more time.
Timanfaya is the lava field of south-western Lanzarote, half an hour from the island's resorts, and it is a park that cannot be walked or driven freely: the entrance ticket, bought at the barrier on the road, takes cars up to the Islote de Hilario, where the geothermal demonstrations are held and from where the park's own coaches make the fourteen-kilometre Route of the Volcanoes, thirty-five minutes on a road closed to every other vehicle, with a recorded commentary and no getting out. The island tours sold from Puerto del Carmen, Costa Teguise and Playa Blanca are therefore transport plus combinations: the south tours add the wine valley of La Geria with a tasting, the green lagoon of El Golfo, the Los Hervideros sea cliffs and the Janubio salt pans in a day;
