La Gomera Island tour, Tenerife South - Day Tour by Ferry & Bus

La Gomera day trip from Tenerife it's also a kind of adventure that goes around La Gomera Island. The La Gomera Day Tour offers a lot of amazing nature and extremely scenic views. This small island has a rich history and culture, which is uniquely different from mainland Spain.

La Gomera is also known for its natural beauty with lush green hills, volcanoes, rivers, waterfalls, and beaches. The island offers some of the best hiking in Europe, with some routes taking you through dramatic scenery.

What to do if you’ve already gone on other bus sightseeing tours in Tenerife like Tenerife Island Tour or Tenerife North Tour, having done those tours, tickets, you really need to try excursion to La Gomera, Tenerife offers. The trip is well planned and it is so convenient as promised!

On this excursion La Gomera - Tenerife you get to enjoy amazing views and diversity of nature, you’ll visit endemic rainforest and Garajonay National Park, discover beautiful views on neighbouring islands. Our buses are comfortable and are well are cleaned and hygienic, freshly scented, and air-conditioned.

La Gomera day trip from Tenerife already includes ferry tickets and return boat trip from Tenerife to La Gomera, and even lunch.

For this well-planned and fun-packed tour you might need to go with some items like:

1. Your camera to take pictures.
2. A jacket due to climatic change or a cover-up.
3. A polarized sunglass to shield the sun.
4. Water.
5. Some cash if you’d like to buy some drinks or souvenirs along the La Gomera day trip from Tenerife.

To the trip to La Gomera from Tenerife you are picked up from the nearest collection point to your hotel, well, the exact pick-up time will be specified in the tour Voucher after the booking made. Then we are going to the harbour in Los Cristianos to take the ferry to La Gomera. We leave our bus and aboard the ferry with our professional tour guide. You can be sure, you've joined the best of trips to La Gomera from Costa Adeje, Playa de Las Americas and other areas of the southern part of Tenerife.

Boarding on the ferry, you will have to show your passport or national ID card (if you are from an EU country) - it replaces your boarding pass, and that's why so important to take your original passport or national ID card with you on the trip to La Gomera from Tenerife.

La Gomera is home to beautiful water sports such as kitesurfing, windsurfing, surfing, diving, and snorkeling. The beaches of La Gomera are some of the bests in Spain, with crystal-clear waters, so you always know what to do staying here.

On the way from Tenerife to La Gomera Island, you may have a chance to see dolphins and pilot whales, if you are lucky. It takes about 40 min to 1 hour to get to La Gomera Island. Faster Fred Olsen water-jet ferry are taken on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Slightly slower Armas ferry are taken on Mondays and Wednesdays. We are docking in San Sebastian de La Gomera, where the bus will be waiting right by the ferry.

The Island is a very rocky one. There are also several caves, and also high peak plateau. Plants also grow abundantly here. The trees also give house to several kinds of brightly colored bird. You’d also find reptiles mostly red headed lizards in the rocky caves. Some rare species of birds are also found on the island rare kinds of partridges and some other kind of sparrows.

The La Gomera Tour leads from the south to the north of La Gomera. You will see how dramatically it will change the climate and vegetation. After crossing the long tunnel, you will notice you are in a different environment with green and lush flora.

We do our first stop in Hermigua, where you can see how local specialty - palm honey is taken and how different tropical plants grow. Along the scenic bus tour of La Gomera from Hermigua to our lunch point in a small village, we will pass Santa Barbara with its amazing views on Tenerife, and generally, you will feel like in a movie because landscapes and vegetation are constantly changing.

As you travel over the hill of the island you could see few old villages. The tour guide will tell you about the area of the island where the fire struck some years ago resulting in burnt trees but are now contained with beautiful trees and a green environment.

 With La Gomera day trip from Tenerife, you have a traditional lunch included in the tour price.

We stop in a small village Las Rosas, and during lunch, you will also have another unusual local experience - a demonstration of local whistling language.

Discover unique Whistling Language on the La Gomera day trip from Tenerife

The Ancient Whistling Language of La Gomera, is the method of communication that was used to replace the Spanish language on the La Gomera Island. The whistle language consist of two vowels and four consonants.

The language dated down to the 15th century when Guanches, original inhabitants of La Gomera, have been using the whistling language even when the European settlers arrived on the island. But the language was said to come from Africa which has birthed other Whistling Languages. Till date there are still many whistlers on the Island who shares their story with those who are wiling to listen like the tourists. This whistling language is not only used by the Gomerans but visitors on the island are also exposed to the language.

The language was actually invented because they needed to communicate over long distances in the forest or from hilltop to hilltop. This whistling language can be used to express over 4000 words. The whistling language involves using the mouth, one finger or sometimes two fingers of each hand and also in various position. Along the lunch stop you will be showed how people communicate with this unusual language - one of your memorable experiences along the trip.

La Gomera has been home to many different types of whistles, and for centuries also, including flutes, gongs and horns. In fact, it’s one of the oldest places on earth that still produces whistles today. There are also some very old pieces that have been found on La Gomera but they don't sound very good as whistles do not get used much anymore.

Visit and walk in the Garajonay National Park along our La Gomera tour

After lunch, our La Gomera tour from Tenerife getting you to the heart of La Gomera Island, to the green jungle and endemic rainforest of Garajonay National Park.

Here you will have approximately 30-45 minutes for a short walk in the jungle to feel its mysterious spirit by yourself. The clour forest is the most desired part of all our day trips to la Gomera from Tenerife - enjoy it fully!

On the island at the Garajonay Park there is also a famous story of a custom where the unnamed girls of the island stare into their reflection Chorros del Epina waters. It was said that if the water is clear they would find a husband but if cloudy some misfortune will befall them.

There is a particular statue that may catch your attention - the park’s wooden statues of Gara and Jonay representing a lady and a man who fell in love.

Jonay partook in an ensuing game which Gara saw him and he attracted Gara’s attention. They fell in love after this. And as they say led to the unfortunate incident of the Volcano Teide according to the story. So sad as the couple had to take their lives after several attempt to convince their parents about how true their love is. The parent never agreed with them as they knew trouble looms for their community according to the traditions of the land. Running off to a mountain was all they thought of, since the parent of the lady and of the man were trying to separate the lovers to avert this misfortune. Parents of both lovers searched and searched, but they could not find them only to find them dead on one of the mountains in the Island.

After a visit to the Garajonay National Park, we do another scenic drive on the other side of La Gomera, slowly descending to the capital. La Gomera tour lets you about an hour time to walk in the streets of the San Sebastian de La Gomera old town before we take our ferry back continuing excursion from La Gomera to Tenerife.

To summarize the tour, participants are picked-up from the collecting points along the Southern coast of Tenerife. Boarding to the fast ferry in Los Cristianos, and having ferry boat trip from Tenerife to La Gomera. On arrival to La Gomera, La Gomera island tour from Tenerife from Tenerife South begins. A scenic drive by side of the Majona natural reserve which stops in the Hermigua around lunch time for lunch in the local restaurant. Continuing to visit The National Park Garajonay. Then a drive to San Sebastian de La Gomera with a photo stop by the way to take a walk in San Sebastian de La Gomera. Lastly, return back ending excursion La Gomera - Tenerife by ferry, and then individual drop-offs to the collection points.

In conclusion, after touring the island, you will be happy to share your experience of La Gomera. The people in the island are friendly and the weather is beautiful.

The day trips to la Gomera from Tenerife from Tenerife has always promised to be interesting and is still as interesting and beautiful as always. You might not be able to feel the cool breeze from the environment or to hike in the greens or even the volcano rocks, explore caves on the bus sightseeing, but you surely will enjoy amazing views and landscapes on the La Gomera day trip from Tenerife.