Walk through the laurisilva forests (known as Laurel Forest), a kind of temperate forest that back in the Tertiary (about 20 million years ago) extended throughout our Mediterranean basin, and that due to glaciations were moving towards more southern regions, such as the Canary Islands, is to share the passage with one's own past. 

Touch the enormous stone tree that is Roque Cinchado and feel this scar on the Earth, try to imagine the formation of this dam of volcanic material, as if it were a wound, from the two semi-calderas of Teide at this precise meeting point; the point where their equals meet, the Roques de García. 

Or simply follow the path to the top of a mountain covered in that blanket of clouds that the capricious trade winds form and outline in the northern part of the island.

This, and so much more, is Tenerife.