13 products stop here and almost every one of them stops at Icod as well — the two towns are eight kilometres apart on the same road. 1 066 reviews stand behind them, from €15 for a guided walk to €389 for a private day. What you are seeing in both places is the same thing: what a volcano did, and what grew back.
Garachico and Icod are neighbours, and no product sells them apart — they come attached to Teide, Masca or both. From Santa Cruz: Teide Volcano, Icod, & Garachico Tour at €72 is the best-rated of them at ★4.9 from 272 reviews and is the only one that starts in the capital rather than the southern resorts. West Tenerife: Icod, Garachico & Masca Scenic Route Tour at €67 matches the rating from 151 and leaves from the south.
One from each shape of day. The full table is below if you want to compare all of them side by side.
★4.4 from 331 reviews.
★4.7 from 213 reviews.
★4.9 from 151 reviews.
Ranked by whether a day spent on them is worth it, not by star rating alone — a high score from a handful of reviews is not a recommendation.
| Tour | Type | Hours | Rating | Reviews | Price | Verdict | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essence of Tenerife: Candelaria, Orotava, Garachico and Masca | Minivan | 9 H | ★ 4.4 | 331 | €58 | ONLY IF | Book |
| Teide, Masca, Garachico, and Sunset Exclusive Tour | Minivan | 9 H | ★ 4.7 | 213 | €95 | BUDGET PICK | Book |
| West Tenerife: Icod, Garachico & Masca Scenic Route Tour | Minivan | 8 H | ★ 4.9 | 151 | €67 | BUDGET PICK | Book |
| Teide, Garachico, Icod, and Masca Full-Day Tour | Minivan | 8 H | ★ 4.2 | 87 | €58 | ONLY IF | Book |
| Teno Rural Park, Garachico & Natural Pool Tour | Minivan | 6 H | ★ 3.8 | 8 | €62 | SKIP | Book |
| Discovery Tours: Teide National Park – Garachico – Masca | Minivan | 8 H | ★ 4.7 | 3 | €59 | BUDGET PICK | Book |
| La Orotava, Icod, and Garachico | Minivan | 7 H | — | 1 | €57 | SKIP | Book |
| Teide, Masca, Garachico, & Icod: Tenerife Sightseeing Tour | Minivan | 8 H | — | – | €62 | NEW | Book |
| Northwest Tenerife Private Tour to Masca & Garachico | Minivan | 8 H | — | – | €389 | NEW | Book |
| Tenerife Motorcycle Tour to Garachico & Icod | Bike | 7 H | — | – | €127 | NEW | Book |
| Walking route Icod de los Vinos 1:30h | Walk | 1.5 H | — | – | €25 | NEW | Book |
| Walking route in Garachico (1.5 hours) | Walk | 1.5 H | — | – | €15 | NEW | Book |
| From Santa Cruz: Teide Volcano, Icod, & Garachico Tour | Minivan | 7–8 H | ★ 4.9 | 272 | €72 | BUDGET PICK | Book |
| Drive the TF-42 coast road and park above the pools | DIY | HALF DAY | — | — | car hire + fuel | DIY | Not sold here |
Figures checked against the sources named under the table.
| What | Figure | The detail behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Eruption | 5 May 1706 | The Trevejo vent, also called Montaña Negra |
| Lava flows | seven | They came down at dawn and buried the harbour |
| What was lost | the port | The richest harbour on the island at the time |
| What was gained | El Caletón | The rock pools are the flow, cooled in the sea |
| Drago, on the sign | “Milenario” | A name, not a measurement |
| Drago, older claims | over 3 000 years | Long repeated, never demonstrated |
| Drago, current estimate | ~700 years ±100–150 | No annual rings to count |
| Drago, protected | since 1917 | Declared a national monument |
Older accounts put the Drago Milenario at over three thousand years; the name itself claims a thousand. The current scientific estimate is around seven hundred, give or take a century and a half. A dragon tree is a woody herb, not a tree — it has no annual rings, so nobody can do better than an estimate.
For an hour, yes. The town is the clearest lesson in volcanic geology on the island: the lava that destroyed its harbour in 1706 is the rock the swimming pools are cut into, and the old streets behind them survived.
On 5 May the Trevejo vent opened above the town and seven lava flows came down before dawn. They buried the port — then the wealthiest on Tenerife — and reached the sea. Nobody was killed, and the town never recovered its trade.
About seven hundred years, with an error margin of a century or more. The name Drago Milenario and the old claims of three thousand years are not measurements: a dragon tree is a woody herb and has no growth rings to count.
When the sea allows. El Caletón is open to the Atlantic and the access is closed on north swell. Bring shoes — the lava is sharp — and do not count on it as the reason for the trip.
From Santa Cruz: Teide Volcano, Icod, & Garachico Tour at €72 holds ★4.9 from 272 reviews and leaves from Santa Cruz. From the southern resorts, West Tenerife: Icod, Garachico & Masca Scenic Route Tour at €67 is the same rating from 151 and takes the scenic west route.
Nearly always. They are eight kilometres apart on the north coast road and no full-day product stops at one without the other.
No. The view from the plaza and the road is free and is the one on every postcard. The Parque del Drago charges for a closer walk around it.
Around thirty minutes each on a full-day circuit — long enough for the pools, the square and a coffee, not for a museum. The two walking-route products are the exception.
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