Did you know that with your tickets for the Teide cable car, you now get the Teide Legend audio guide which also includes the “Science and Legend” exhibition in eight languages at the Cable Car Visitors’ Centre? Want to enjoy the Teide National Park to the full?
That’s right!
If you plan to bring your explorer’s suit when you come to visit the highest mountain in Spain, don’t miss the details of these two alternatives because we can’t think of anything better to soak up everything that surrounds this National Park, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Remember that they are alternative and complementary. In other words:
- You don’t have to buy them, although it’s recommended if you want to delve a little deeper into what this National Park is all about.
- IIf you want the trails guide but not the audio guide, you can acquire it at the cable car base station.
The complete Teide Legend audio guide. Discover everything it has to offer!
The first way we recommend for you to turn your tickets for the Teide cable car into premium tickets is through the Teide Legend audio guide.
This innovative app offers you much more than just a trail guide on your mobile device. Thanks to the Teide Legend app, you’ll discover the most important volcanological and cultural information about the Teide National Park and information on the island of Tenerife. You’ll also learn about the three main trails that you can take from the top station of the cable car, as well as the two unmissable trails in Las Cañadas del Teide.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to take the audio-guided tour of the “Science and Legend” exhibition in eight different languages, as well as to get first-hand information about MUNA, the Museum of Nature and Archaeology, located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This audio guide is available for Android and iOS devices in eight different languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Russian and Dutch). Don’t miss anything and enjoy a richer experience on your visit to the Teide National Park.
Visit the “Science and Legend” exhibition, available in eight languages
The Teide Legend audio guide gives you the chance to enjoy an audio-guided tour of the “Science and Legend” exhibition in eight languages. Delve into the history and culture of the Canary Islands with an activity for the whole family.
It explores Guanche mythology, featuring narration of the events that took place during the last eruption of Mount Teide. The information panels are in Spanish and English, but thanks to the Teide Legend audio guide, you can learn in eight languages about this fascinating exhibition that explains the eruption from a scientific point of view, in opposition to the Guanche legend of Guayota, Achamán and Echeyde.
Teide Legend: an audio guide for the trails with your cable car ticket
Trails with the cable car
This is a series of tracks, available in several languages, with information on the most important and iconic points of the volcano.
The first stop on this self-guided route is at the base station, at an altitude of 2,356 metres, where the audio guide will provide you with information about the National Parks in general and Mount Teide in particular, preparing you for the cable car journey.
Once you reach La Rambleta, at 3,555 metres, you have three options. The audio guide will tell you all the details, but we’ll give you a preview:
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The trail to Pico Viejo, which takes you to a beautiful crater distinguished by contrasting colours.
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The La Fortaleza trail, with slopes and winding paths.
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The Telesforo Bravo trail, the only one that reaches the peak of Mount Teide (please note, you will need a special permit to access the peak; read the complete guide to your ascent to the summit of Mount Teide). It includes detailed and essential information about these three emblematic trails that leave from Teide Cable Car top station and follow different routes across the volcano’s slopes.
You just need to use the booking code from your cable car + audio guide ticket to quickly and easily download the app and enjoy an enhanced contactless experience.
Want to know how the audioguide app works? We explain in this video. Follow the instructions to get the most from your visit to Mount Teide.
Trails without the cable car
If the cable car is closed, walk along Las Cañadas del Teide and discover the must-see trails around the area with the Teide Legend app:
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Roques de García.
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Majúa.
You can also take the opportunity to visit some iconic landscapes such as the San José Mines, a genuine Mars-like setting. Of course, there is also the “Science and Legend” exhibition at the Visitors’ Centre with an explanatory audio guide in eight different languages.
Why choose the audio guide with your tickets for the Teide cable car?
Because there are things that, unless you’re told, you may not even be aware of.
As you’re making the trip to Tenerife and dare to climb the volcano, isn’t it worth having detailed explanations to better understand where you are? From the moment you download the audio guide to your mobile device by adding your booking reference, you’ll be able to enjoy the most complete experience during your visit to the Teide National Park.
In other words, you choose what to listen to.
How to download the Teide Legend audio guide
The audio guide is available for Android and iOS. To enjoy your audio guide, all you have to do is download the mobile app for your operating system. You’ll then be asked to choose a language and you will need to add your booking locator. You now have your audio guide! Enjoy it!
Gear up with a full-colour paper guide
This guide, which is clear and rich in graphics, includes useful information on the most interesting points of the three routes that start at La Rambleta. It is available in Spanish, English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Polish and Dutch.
You can acquire it at the cable car base station.
Here you have some info related to what we’ve mentioned about these three trails:
Pico Viejo Viewpoint trail
We talk to you about points as incredible as the top of the Caldera de Las Cañadas with its layers of magma from different eruptions, the tie of Mount Teide, different lava stretches, one of the most impressive balconies on the island (from which you will see in the background the islands of La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma) and, finally, Mirador de Pico Viejo viewpoint.
What is there to say about this crater?
We don’t want to give you a spoiler, but we are going to give you a preview of what our guide contains regarding the path to this viewpoint:
La Fortaleza Viewpoint trail
This trail, which we also take a closer look at in the guide, has the viewpoint that bears the same name as its ending point. It is reached after discovering volcanic rocks of different shapes, sizes and colours, as well as the panorama of the predominant Anaga.
You will cross lava paths, you will see them with large rocks belonging to dry lava tongues and you will experience the smell of sulphur from the fumaroles, the escape routes from the lungs of Mount Teide, before reaching the beautiful Mirador de la Fortaleza viewpoint.
Be sure to make the most of both trails with the guide, which you can take as an unforgettable souvenir of your passage through the volcano.
Telesforo Bravo trail to the Peak of Mount Teide
The third one out is actually the only one that takes you to the highest point of the volcano. Remember that in order to access it you need a special permit and that we, as a company that collaborates with the official guides of the National Park, have access to some of those permits. Access them with our Ascent to the Peak by Cable Car experience, which you can find more about on the Teide cable car official website.
And the trail... What is there to say? It runs through the inside and sides of a flow of lava, zigzagging. You will experience in first person how the volcano breathes, and you will see beautiful landscapes with yellow tones as a result of that constant release of sulphur.
But the best is saved until last. Do you know that this is the only possible way to reach the crater of Mount Teide, the highest point in Spain? Please don’t forget your mobile phone, as you don’t see panoramas every day and, as we’ve already mentioned, accessing this trail is not easy because of the issue regarding permits.
Can I buy both the audio guide and the paper guide?
Of course! You can do it however you want: with the audio guide and trails guide or with the trails guide alone.
These are your options:
- If you want to buy the audio guide, you can book it with your tickets for the Teide cable car.
- If you want the trails guide, you can acquire it at the cable car base station.
Walking with the trails guide will let you know where to stop to better appreciate the surroundings. And if you add to that the audio guide, we will also show you the points at which you should make a stop, dial the code, press play and listen.
How can I purchase the audio guide or the trails guide?
It’s very simple.
You can book the audio guide directly when you buy your tickets for the Teide cable car from this page, on the Teide cable car official website.
If you only want the trails guide, you can acquire it at the cable car base station.
If you want the audio guide, follow the same process but adding this option, and when you arrive at the base station, before climbing to La Rambleta, we will give you the audio guide.
Enjoy one of the most spectacular natural attractions in the world thanks to our audio guide!
If you want to go one step further, take a look at all our activities on Mount Teide
If you want to make even more of your visit to the volcano, we have a number of additional activities that might interest you.
There are quite a few; here’s our weekly schedule:
Ready to explore and make the most of Europe’s most incredible volcano?
