Tenerife beaches' Las Teresitas for safe swimming, snorkeling and above all warm winter sun.
The photo of one of the best bigger Tenerife beaches Playa de las Teresitas beach is by Ursula Astrid Ruppender. This seashore is 7 km outside Santa Cruz, almost, by the most eastern corner of the island. Las Teresitas Playa is about 150 km from the coasts of Morocco of north west Africa, but below the latitude of the Moroccan beach resort Agadir. You can see it all by scrolling eastwards from the Tenerife maps. Why maps? You can make more out of one. The beach Teresita itself is about 1500 meters long.
The image which is shown above portrays the almost Hundertwasser type cluster village hugging the Anaga mountain slope on one side of the Atlantic seashore. It is the lovely fishing hamlet San Andres.
Playa de Las Teresitas is one of the most popular safe Tenerife beaches for people who are not strong swimmers. Its parallel breakwater, which is 500 m off shore in some places, fences off high waves. It would be almost impossible to bath by this shore of Tenerife without this jetty. This barrier wall also protects the boats, some of which discover near the shore line. Learn more about this environmental precaution as well as about even more ancient times of this seaside by San Andres by the history of beach Playa Las Teresitas.
Also, its golden beach sand was carted to the Santa Cruz free port in big ships which was done for Tenerife beaches in the South too, by the way. A Tenerife Santa Cruz beach experience:Playa de las Teresitas is warm and cozy, even under the winter sun. It feels like looking at it through pink glasses with its typical Tenerife mountain scenery and African light.
Las Teresitas beach bay with San Andres is below the green laurel forests and meadows of the Anaga mountains which protect the bay together with the barrier.. You wouldn't see it off the auditorium as the view is blocked by large cliffs.
A direct bus goes from the bus station in Santa Cruz Tenerife, to this extended bowing out beach. It's bus line Titsa 245. Santa Cruzeros make great use of that facility. On the other hand, car parking is no problem, unless, on a public holiday.
How Tenerife Chicharreros feel about their beach:Santacruzeros called by that nickname and other island dwellers appreciate the main beach of the Tenerife capital with its protecting barrier wall very much. You see them swarming to the seashore on holidays for snorkeling, rubber boating or just swimming or sun bathing, while some bring water skies or boogie boards. Others just meet up with cool beers, sandwiches filled with Cerrano ham and goats cheese to celebrate on the beach.
Playa de las Teresitas is not a surf beach like Playa Martianez or like Playa de las Americas.
However, I know all kinds of North Tenerife people that love this beach by San Andres very much. And so do I... Whenever the north of the island is cooled down by a low front or wind, Playa Las Teresitas may not be windy, at all. The Anaga mountains keep it warm in its back and, the Santa Cruz sun does the rest to heat it up.I, personally, love the beach area closest to the mountain where I always find a palm tree that provides just enough shade. There could be more palms, though, if you are asking me. At times there is quite a bit of a wind at the Santa Cruz main beach, though. People's beach umbrellas fly away, then. Therefor, the best time to go to this seaside is in the morning. That's when my friend Guenther calls it the most beautiful of all Tenerife beaches.
Las Teresitas beach amenities:
Tenerife beaches Playa Las Teresitas is not as rudimentary, as it was in the past. Notice some neat beach shower cabins with toilettes in the back. There were more such cubicles under trees.In the past, you just washed off all sand in plain daylight at Teresitas beach, while being dried by the rays from above. You couldn't strip too much, then. Las Teresitas is not for nudists any more, although a legend tells that this was the case during the Baladero witch hunts above San Andres, long ago. By the way, beach Playa Las Gaviotas behind the vertical jetty caters for naturists. Beach refreshments las Teresitas:A couple of straight forward bistros invite you for snacks and cheap Tapas.
Click the picture beside to enlarge... Notice that this city recreational area of Tenerife beaches Playa las Teresitas has a generous beach on-ramp for wheelchairs. A long timber path leads from it to an extensive bay where many gaily colored leisure and fishing boats swing on gentle waves. Who knows what is so special about this beach? It has everything that is important, you know... Big plans for Playa de las Teresitas:Nevertheless, big plans are in the making for this still underdeveloped beach of all bigger Tenerife beaches. An innovative new set up that should attract more international tourism is occasionally much talked about. The French architect Dominique Perrault is said to be in charge of building design and planning for a new beach resort. My neighbor makes big fun of this and says that improvement plans for Las Teresitas beach have been big yearly news in some media since 1999 or so... By the latest, before a new government election... The dream of a luxury beach resort Teresitas:This is a sensitive topic and is not liked by all locals. Postponed Playa Las Teresitas infrastructure:Discover overwhelming environmental problems by Las Teresitas and its surroundings...
The unspoiled country behind San Andres:Explore the beautiful meadows and slopes of the Anaga by Las Teresitas Beach... See superb suggestions for walks at . Titsa Anagas hiking map with bus stops and more excellent information... Last time I saw this colorful Pdf card, it was upside down. Never mind... Buses from Las Americas and other southern towns to Las Teresitas:
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