Scenic bike tour with Cheese and Wine 
Description
A 3.5 hour tour that’s slightly more terrifying than scenic. After meeting at the tour offices you, and the bikes, are transported up to the Parque Recreativo de las Lajas on the side of Mount Teide, about 29Km from Los Cristianos and also 2,200m above it. From the park you start the descent down the side of the mountain, initially travelling along the main mountain road, stopping off at a viewpoint along the way, before reaching Vilaflor - the highest town in Spain - where you leave the main road and start following smaller, steeper back roads down through the countryside. After about 90 minutes cycling you reach the Bodega Reverón where you stop to sample some of the local wines and cheese. After the stop the steepest part of the route is followed on quiet lanes with gradients of 25% before eventually reaching the town of La Camella where you join the main road back down the 6Km or so into Los Cristianos, including navigating the slip road off of the motorway and the main highway into town. The tour was in parts both breath taking and terrifying - particularly the final couple of kilometres into town. Very little peddling is required, but you are on the breaks constantly for the full 2.5 hours of cycling so your hands, shoulders and back start to cramp up quite a bit, as do you legs which have nothing much to do other than sit on the peddles the entire time.
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Latitude: 28.049241; Longitude: -16.713812
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