Noordwest-Tenerife dagtocht met Canarische lunch

The tour was OK. We saw some nice places and it was nice to meet other tourists. However, I didn't feel like I learnt anything about the island. We had a silly situation on the drive were we were in a convoy of five cars all going at a snails pace so people could take pictures through glass windows rather than pull over and get out. This understandably enraged the locals and wasn't much fun for me either. The guides were friendly and pleasant but the tour was in about five different languages so it took ages to tell us anything but when your language finally came around it was just to say 'we will see some nice flowers and some trees' which really wasn't worth waiting for. When I asked questions they didn't know. It was also very very rushed. We were dumped in each place told we had 45 minutes and sent on our way. Some places were small and that was fine but some places we just couldn't really see much. It would have been nice to relax and have a coffee occasionally. For the tasting we were herded into a shop (there were five car loads of us) there was three tiny shots a red and white wine and a liqueur - didn't really find out anything about them as it was so quick but I guess form the general prices in the shop they would be expensive. There was also mojo and jam on bits of toast that got wolfed by the hungry crowd. Didn't really learn anything about them either. The meal was OK - nothing to rave about. Really it was just far too expensive and rushed and I think there are other better tours available locally once you arrive.