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Aloe Park

  • Camino bananeras 16, Buzanada
    Arona, Tenerife
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Aloe Park

  • Joy S from Manchester
  • December 16, 2025
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Agriculture has always been a traditional activitiy in Tenerife and banana production has been one of the most important parts of this. For that reason, I decided to try and visit a banana plantation during our trip to the island. After a bit of browsing on the internet, I finally found this place and we decided to go. It is not, however, a very highly marketed place. While we were in Tenerife, I did not see any mention of it anywhere in any of the tourist information.

It is reasonably easy to find, but you would need a hire car to get here. It is just off the TF1 motorway at Junction 26 on the road heading towards Buzanada, near Arona. It is open Monday to Friday, between 10am and 4.30pm. They have guided tours at 10, 11.30, 1.00 and 3.30. I think you would need to time your visit with the guided tour, otherwise it would not be so interesting. The cost is 10 Euros for adults and 5 Euros for children.

On arrival, we were greeted with small glasses of banana liqueur (Fanta for the children) which we sipped in the little bar area while we waited for the tour to start. Our guide was a Belgian lady, I think she and her husband were the owners. She was extremely knowledgable and spoke excellent English. She did the tour in English and German. There were about 15 of us on our tour.

They have a large aloe vera plantation which we walked past first of all. She told us all about the aloe vera plant and its benefits and where it is used. It was interesting to see a small flock of sheep inside the plantation roaming around. The sheep eat all the weeds and act as natural weedkillers. They don't use any chemicals at all here.

We sat in a little "theatre" area next, with a pool in front of us and models of the Canary Islands in miniature. We were told about the different islands, their geographical features, agriculture on each of the islands and more interesting facts. There was also a model of Tenerife, with the centre cut-out. This was a really interesting demonstation about water on the island. We learned that, as it rarely rains in the south of the island and water is therefore such a precious commodity, there is a very sophisticated method of piping the water from the rainy mountains and forests of the north to the dry south. The model was very intricate and interesting.

We walked through an area of different plants and were introduced to the family pet - an old dromedary, snoozing in its huge enclosure.

Inside the banana plantation, we got up close to the banana plants. The guide explained the flower only produces one crop of bananas and then dies. She also told us that 94% of Canarian bananas are sold on mainland Spain. EU regulations state they are too small to be sold in the rest of Europe! We had time to wander around, look closely at the bananas in different stages of growth and take as many pictures as we wanted.

Next door was a little agricultural "museum" with lots of old machinery and equipment.

There was a quaint little bar area, where you could buy juices made from produce grown on the farm. We bought a glass of mixed juice each - it cost 2.50 euros and took shelter from the sun. The lady showed us some of the other interesting plants and things they grow here - a mango tree, a dragon tree and the most beautiful bougainvillea. She said it is so fertile in this area that you could actually grow anything.

At the end of the tour, we were shown a video of the aloe vera plant and its benefits, then left to browse in the little gift shop.

This place is not an all singing/dancing tourist attraction, but we loved it and thoroughly enjoyed our visit. We spent about 1.5 hours here and came away feeling we had learned a lot about the "real" Tenerife.
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