Moderate-to-challenging walking on more rugged terrain with significant ascents / descents on most days. Compass skills may be required (check the individual holiday).
The season for this holiday is:
01 September 2019 - 31 May 2020
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 18 |
| mm | 65 | 55 | 41 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 40 | 73 | 74 |
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7 nights: 01 September 2019 - 31 May 2020
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep - 31 Oct 2019 | £960 | £210 |
| 1 - 30 Nov 2019 | £925 | £205 |
| 1 - 11 Dec 2019 | £895 | £195 |
| 12 Dec - 31 Jan 2020 # | £925 | £205 |
| 1 Feb - 3 Apr 2020 | £945 | £210 |
| 4 - 9 Apr 2020 | £960 | £210 |
| 10 - 17 Apr 2020 | £945 | £210 |
| 18 Apr - 24 May 2020 | £895 | £195 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£70 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £70 |
Includes accommodation, meals and services integral to the holiday as described, plus walking notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
If your flight arrives after 1200, you will spend your first night on Tenerife instead (on a bed-and-breakfast basis) and transfer to El Hierro the following morning. There is no additional cost for this EXCEPT during the Tenerife Carnival, which is on request – please call for details.
Included travel: return flight between Tenerife North and El Hierro and transfer to first hotel and from last hotel
Not Included: transfer from Tenerife South to Tenerife North airport or, if spending first night on Tenerife, from Tenerife South to Santa Cruz (in both cases, pay locally for taxi or bus – call for details)
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
| Balneario Pozo de La Salud, Sabinosa (with dinner) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep - 31 May 2020 | £60 | £88 |
| Parador de El Hierro, Las Playas (with dinner) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep - 17 Dec 2019 | £120 | £152 |
| 18 Dec - 06 Jan 2020 # | £130 | £168 |
| 07 Jan - 09 Apr 2020 | £116 | £148 |
| 10 Apr - 15 Apr 2020 | £130 | £168 |
| 16 Apr - 30 Apr 2020 | £116 | £148 |
| 01 May - 31 May 2020 | £110 | £140 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Belfast Intl. - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Belfast Intl. - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | jet2 |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Doncaster Sheffield - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Exeter - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow Prestwick - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Liverpool - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | British Airways, easyJet, Norwegian, TUI |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | British Airways |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | easyJet, jet2, Ryanair, TUI, Vueling |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Norwich - Tenerife Reina Sofia (South) | TUI |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service (£60 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Tenerife South
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| bus or taxi Tenerife South to Tenerife North (1h, pay locally), Binter flight - Tenerife North to El Hierro (1h check-in + 0h40 flight), taxi El Hierro airport to hotel (0h20) | included | 1200 or 1000 Tues, Fri & Sat |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to El Hierro airport (0h20 + 0h40 flight check-in), Binter flight El Hierro to Tenerife North (0h40), bus or taxi Tenerife North to Tenerife South (1h, pay locally) | included | 1400 |
Connecting travel options - flying via Tenerife North
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| Binter flight Tenerife North to El Hierro (1h check-in + 0h40 flight), taxi El Hierro airport to hotel (0h20) | included | 1400 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to El Hierro airport (0h20 + 0h40 flight check-in), Binter flight El Hierro to Tenerife North (0h40) | included | 1200 |
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Our first Christmas abroad and loved El Hierro, the walks, hotels and food. The Christmas meal at the Parador was fabulous food, service and wine, after a day climbing Malpaso! Fantastic sea view room. The sight and sound of the waves on the rocks from the Balneario hotel were awesome too. A real walking retreat.
Personal highlights - the scenery at Mount Teide, The scenery on the 1st 2 big walks in El Hierro; Feeling clean, well fed and catered for in both Paradors.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers booked a short stay at the Parador on Tenerife prior to the El Hierro walking week.
This was an excellent holiday. We enjoyed the walking, but really appreciated the opportunity to learn about the island history, culture and way of life over the centuries. This came through Inntravel walk notes, the frequent information boards on the walks, and through seeing for ourselves the landscape, ancient migration routes, agriculture (including evidence of unsuccessful attempts to cultivate the land).
Our first Christmas abroad and loved El Hierro, the walks, hotels and food. The Christmas meal at the Parador was fabulous food, service and wine, after a day climbing Malpaso! Fantastic sea view room. The sight and sound of the waves on the rocks from the Balneario hotel were awesome too. A real walking retreat.
Personal highlights - the scenery at Mount Teide, The scenery on the 1st 2 big walks in El Hierro; Feeling clean, well fed and catered for in both Paradors.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers booked a short stay at the Parador on Tenerife prior to the El Hierro walking week.
This was an excellent holiday. We enjoyed the walking, but really appreciated the opportunity to learn about the island history, culture and way of life over the centuries. This came through Inntravel walk notes, the frequent information boards on the walks, and through seeing for ourselves the landscape, ancient migration routes, agriculture (including evidence of unsuccessful attempts to cultivate the land).
This was a challenging walk and some areas are very steep with loose gravel & rocks. Great care is needed.
Good holiday and most enjoyable walking - the right combination of passing through flower-decked fields and climbing up and down rocky mountainsides. The best walk was the one from Mocanal to Frontera, with its gentle ascent through green fields and drystone walls, two spectacular viewpoints and the final rugged descent to the flatlands of El Golfo. We found the landscape and history of El Hierro fascinating. The taxi-drivers on Tenerife describe it as tranquilla, which is apt. It has the feeling of a place that time forgot and when you see the small and austere dwellings that people lived in at the excellent little museum in Guinea, you can understand why. Paolo was very good on the geology and ecology and Enrica gave us a delightful lunch.
This is an excellent walking holiday, on a beautiful non touristy island. There are some steep descents for those with bad knees, but interesting walking and views. We all thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
This was our third walking holiday with Inntravel and as usual the planning, organisation and accommodation were all first class. Our latest, on El Hierro, was a unique opportunity to see the 'other' side of The Canaries seldom seen by tourists. Tough walking at times but very rewarding.
Inn Travel made a very good job of organising travel, accommodation and luggage transfer, as well as taxis to link between walks, hotels and airports / ferry terminal.
The walking information supplied was of high quality.
Do not miss the rock pools and swimming with the fish at Charco Azul. We spent our extra day there, travelling by bus there and back, and it was very worthwhile. Also, the Malpais circuit on Day 5 was excellent - views of very dramatic seas and arches in the rock. The hill was in cloud so the longer walk would have been a waste of time, as we had had very good views on previous days.
Amazing trip overall. The whole trip flowed really well with the taxi transfers and the bags being transported seamlessly between hotels. Great level of detail in the trip notes about the walking, hotels, local amenities and historical information.
The walks take you via places you would not otherwise go and allow you to really explore this lovely island. The scenery is beautiful and varied across this island and you get to experience all of this on foot giving you time to really enjoy it.
El Hierro is a very quiet and undeveloped island, which allows large beautiful areas of countryside. The paths are very well marked and have very few walkers using them giving very quiet and relaxing walks.
Make sure you try the local delicacy of the El Hierro Quesadilla!
I would definitely recommend Inntravel and would definitely recommend the Last Outpost trip.
If you want somewhere off the beaten track with wonderful scenery and walking El Hierro the place for you. A world away from the mass tourism of the larger Islands
The walk on the final day was my personal highlight - the first part of which was also the most demanding of the trip. The walk on the second day might have snatched first prize, but that when we arrived at Malpaso it was shrouded in mist, followed by strong winds and a little rain as we decended towards the laurisilva forest. That it was cooler than average for February doubtless assisted our walking, even if at times it felt as if I was in the Andes. One had a very real sense of being far away from the rest of the world in a place in a state of constant evolution. The very paths require a considerable effort to be kept open and I encountered a number of landslides on the last day that could very easily have blocked them completely! The ferocity of the landscape was tempered by the calm of its inhabitants, both human and animal.
I cannot speak too highly of the Guachinche Frontera, both the quality of the food and the atmosphere were exhilarating. Restaurant Joapira next door was also very good and better than the food in the hotels. The quality of the produce was uniformly good, but the ambitions of some chefs appeared to be beyond their ability. I should add that if one is staying the La Frontera it makes sense to take a taxi to the aforesaid restaurants since it is not expensive and the approach to both is quite steep.
We were pleased we went on this holiday: we enjoyed some lovely walks and found the islanders very welcoming. We thought that the Inntravel website gave an accurate impression of what to expect. All of the arrangements worked out perfectly, the waymarking and map were good and the weather was dry and not too windy for walking, which it could have been in February! The taxi drivers were extremely helpful, even though most of them spoke little or no English. Our lack of Spanish meant we were not confident to follow a route ending at a mirador and requiring a taxi back to the hotel. We did not think to phone Inntravel to make a taxi booking for us. That was our mistake, as we found out from another Inntravel walker that this worked very effectively. Even in hotels, shops and restaurants, knowledge of English cannot be assumed as tourism is relatively new and visitor numbers small. We made our own arrangements for a night in Tenerife before our flight to El Hierro. We chose Hotel Laguna Nivaria, which we found excellent, giving us half a day to explore the lovely historic town of La Laguna before the 10 minute taxi ride to the North Airport.
In retrospect, we wished we had customised the holiday to stay 2 or 3 nights at the Parador, in place of the stay in Mocanal, where the accommodation and food were not to our taste. We spoke with other walkers who had completed a walk very similar to the Valverde to Mocanal route by taking a taxi from the Parador.
The recommended walks include two long descents, which we avoided by travelling with the luggage and then walking up and down parts of the path we were meant to descend. The advantage on the northern side of the island was that we stayed below the persistent cloud, whereas half of the recommended 1500 metre descent would have been through fog. It is common for the top of the ridge to be in cloud on this side of the island and all the views, even at lower heights, are hazy. For the walk to the Parador, we were deterred by the walking notes as they mentioned steepness and the loose surface on the path.
Finally, we thought the walk from Pozo de La Salud to Frontera was a waste of a day. We realised it would be flat but as it was the only walk suggested for the day we assumed it would have something to recommend it. The notes mention the views, but those are mainly of the disused water pipe and the dirt track. Instead, we should have have taken a taxi and walked one of the options recommended for the day in Frontera.
We enjoyed the varied volcanic landscapes and found it a fascinating island to explore.
On both La Gomera and El Hierro the walking is really excellent, and both are extremely interesting islands: not perhaps conventional winter sun (you spend a fair bit of time in cloud!) but really fascinating and enjoyable.
Option 2 coast walk on walking day 3 is definitely worth doing and somewhat harder and takes longer than suggested in the notes if you walk to the end of the lava path and back. And ignore the advice about not taking walking poles - they're useful on this walk as well. Overall this is definirely 2/3 grade walking holiday and on some days a 3 but if you're used to this type of walking an interesting place to walk.