EXPERIENCES

Ixchel Beach House offers the opportunity to put aside the stress of modern life and build body strength and flexibility with yoga practice and retreat.
This stimulating and dynamic practice focuses on mental and physical training while providing body health and positive energy. To give an experience that satisfies different needs, a variety of yoga styles are offered, along with meditation practice.  

Our yogi Silvia Gonzalez comes to offer unforgetable yoga sessions with different backgrounds and unique ways of approaching yoga. Silvia will guide all participants to ensure they obtain the best from the yoga practice. She also arranges regular group sessions in Playa La Jaquita where our customers are always welcome.  

Massimo Giovanzana (www.cyclingholidaystenerife.com) is a professional passionate biker who has been developing the best guided bike tours of the natural and cultural wonders of El Medano. These expeditions take visitors through the diverse ecosystems of the land and the rich cultural heritage. Top quality mountain bikes can be rented, and numbers of participants are limited to keep tours small and personal.

An eco-friendly dive tour-operator from El Medano offers personalized tours in the area. The snorkelling and diving excursions and eco-tours offered aim to give visitors a special perspective on Tenerife’s natural wonders and ecosystems.

If you like water sports such as wind or kitesurfing, this is your ideal destination. But not only that, bodyboarding, surfing, and snorkeling complete the menu of things to do in El Medano. There is no time to get bored, no option to go home without a good tan. These activities are open both to those who have some experience and to those who want to take their first steps in the water. As a guideline, kitesurfing prices vary between schools, but estimate that a 9-hour course is around € 260 per person.

A protected area, for its enormous landscape value is joined by a unique ecosystem in the Canary Islands. You will not only walk through the volcanic cone of Montaña Roja but also through the sandy areas that surround it called dunes. These constitute one of the best samples of inorganic sand habitats in Tenerife.

There, live more than a hundred different plants, many of them exclusive. It is also home to many animals among which birds such as the black-footed plover and up to 70 migratory species stand out. We are undoubtedly in a very special place that we must protect.

Being at Ixchel Beach House gives you the unique exclusivity to daily hike across Montaña Pelada and its hidden sand coves. Visit Playa La Rajita and Playa Escondida discovering the imposing Montaña Roja Volcano.

Montaña Pelada Natural Monument is right behind Ixchel Beach House and will give you the opportunity to see how a volcanic cone can form from an underwater eruption. You will be able to walk its 1.5 square kilometres and caress all those plants used to living in communion with the environment, the psamófilas (adapted to the sandy soils of the area), the tabaibales and cardonales. They all have a different exotic air. Let the dunes tell you the history they have seen for hundreds of centuries, feel like a child when you see a fossil dune that recounts the fluctuations of the sea level during the slow passage of time.

Montaña Roja, a Volcano by the sea. The Montaña Roja volcano in El Medano draws an easily recognizable silhouette from many points on the island. With its 171 meters of altitude, it is a benchmark in the area as it separates the two best natural beaches in Tenerife, El Medano and La Tejita. Montaña Roja is a Special Natural Reserve that tries to protect a unique habitat as well as a series of certain animal and plant species. Obviously, also the geological character is of great value. Enjoy the views of some of the best samples of dune ecosystems or dunes in the western islands of the Canary Islands.