VIP Teide Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Hotel Pick-up

Hotel pick-up, sunset above the clouds and a guided night sky with professional astronomers and a 20-inch telescope. No driving, no planning.
An evening on the mountain with nothing to arrange. We collect you at your hotel or apartment, take you up into Teide National Park and bring you back afterwards — so nobody in your party has to stay sober at the wheel, or find their way down a dark mountain road at eleven at night.

First the sun goes down above the clouds from a viewpoint high in Teide National Park, with a glass of sparkling wine in your hand. Then, once the light has gone, the group moves on and the sky takes over.

There is a reason astronomers come here. The park sits above 1,500 metres, above the cloud layer and the damp air that comes with it, and the skies over Tenerife have been protected by law since 1988 to keep them dark. UNESCO listed the park as World Heritage in 2007. On a clear night the Milky Way is not something you have to look for.

Accredited professional astronomers take you through what you are looking at, using a 500 mm Sky-Watcher Stargate GoTo telescope — a 20-inch mirror that gathers four times as much light as a 250 mm instrument and tracks each object on its own. Galaxies, globular clusters and nebulae, the cloud bands of Jupiter and the Great Red Spot, the rings of Saturn.

A digital eyepiece puts the same view on a screen in real time. The sensor collects far more light than the eye, so nebulae and galaxies appear there in colour. Through the eyepiece you see the real thing with your own eye; on the screen you see what the camera sees.

Door to door the evening takes about four and a half hours, of which around three hours is the guided programme itself; the rest is the drive up and back. We cap the group size so that everyone can enjoy the experience in comfort.

We collect you at the hotel or apartment you give us when booking, and bring you back to the same place at the end of the evening.

Para garantizar la disponibilidad de la reserva lo antes posible. Vale la pena reservar con antelación, especialmente si planeas el viaje durante la temporada alta, como los días festivos o los fines de semana.

Esta excursión se puede cancelar sin costo alguno hasta :tiempo de cancelación horas antes del inicio del viaje. Si lo cancela después de 24 horas o no se presenta en la excursión, se le cobrará el precio total de la actividad. El retraso en la recogida o en la salida se considerará como no presentarse.