Tenerife’s Yellow Mountain by Amarilla Bay

In the Costa del Silencio area of Tenerife South in the Canary Islands there is a Yellow Mountain. In Spanish it is called Montaña Amarilla and it is right by Amarilla Bay. Amarilla Bay has a community housing complex that overlooks the sea so it is a great place for enjoying a holiday in the sun or as somewhere to live.
Costa del Silencio is near to the Tenerife South Airport making it convenient for holiday-makers visiting the island. There are many Tenerife apartments for rental on a long or short term basis in the area and many people looking for Tenerife accommodation find it around here.
Amarilla Bay’s own community housing complex is quiet and very well maintained, although anyone wanting some entertainment can nip down to Flicks Bar on the seafront down below. This venue offers live music most evenings and a special Sunday afternoon cabaret session with roast dinners being served too.
But many people come to Amarilla Bay to climb the Yellow Mountain. It is a volcanic cone and really is a yellowish colour. It looks out over the sea and down along the coast to the Golf del Sur area and a Red Mountain in the nearby seaside town of El Medano.
Montaña Amarilla has been designated a natural reserve area of scientific interest and besides its unique geology it has some unusual plants growing around it. One of these is the peculiar Cardoncillo (Ceropegia fusca), a succulent plant with silvery-grey-green stems that likes to grow in the hot semi-desert ground at the base of the mountain. It is possible to walk along the coastline too and look out for more of the interesting flora and fauna.
The sea itself in Amarilla Bay has dolphins in it and is of interest to scuba divers who enjoy seeing what they can spot beneath the water’s surface. Part of a television documentary was filmed here, whilst a Welsh TV comedy drama was filmed at the nearby Flicks Bar.
Amarilla Bay has a tiny rocky beach that locals enjoy sunbathing at, and just around the shoreline at the case of the mountain, there is one of the Tenerife beaches where nudity is allowed so this is where the naturists congregate.
Amarilla Bay and its Yellow Mountain is an interesting part of Costa del Silencio in the south of Tenerife.