Jungle Park (Las Aguilas)

Jungle Park sits at Las Aguilas, on the slope above Arona, and it is the animal park most visitors from the southern resorts can reach with the least effort. Where Loro Parque is a full day out in Puerto de la Cruz and Siam Park is a water park rather than a zoo, Jungle Park occupies a middle ground: a themed zoological park built around jungle vegetation, walk-through aviaries and bird-of-prey displays, a short drive or bus ride from Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje. This page, from the Tenerife Travel Guide editorial desk, reports what is on file about the park's setting, its transport links and its place among the island's park options, and it is honest about the details no verified source confirms: opening hours, ticket prices and show times for Jungle Park itself should be confirmed with the venue or the operator's live listing before you plan a day around them.

What Is Jungle Park in Tenerife?

Jungle Park is a jungle-themed zoological park at Las Aguilas, on the hillside above Arona in south Tenerife, built around dense tropical planting, walk-through aviaries and bird-of-prey shows. It is one of three big name parks in the island's south, alongside the water park Siam Park in Costa Adeje and the smaller Monkey Park, and it is marketed as a family day out. No verified source on file states its size, animal count or opening hours, so confirm those details with the venue.

The park's identity is the vegetation as much as the animals. The setting is a planted jungle valley, with paths threading under palms and vines, and the animal collection is organised around that theme: exotic birds, primates and other species suited to a walk-through jungle environment. The bird-of-prey display is the park's signature show, the thing most listings lead with, and it runs to fixed times the venue publishes rather than to a continuous programme.

What this desk can and cannot verify matters here. The verified facts file for Tenerife holds official hours for Siam Park and Loro Parque, and it holds ferry timetables, trail fees and bus lines, but it holds no official page for Jungle Park's own hours, prices or show schedule. Rather than repeat the numbers that circulate on third-party sites, this page states what is checkable and tells you where the gaps are. For every figure about the park itself, the venue or the operator's live listing is the source that settles it.

Where Is Jungle Park and How Do You Get There?

Jungle Park is at Las Aguilas, in the municipality of Arona, inland and uphill from the coastal resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas. The park sits off the road that climbs from the TF-1 motorway towards the village of Arona, and the nearest coastal neighbourhoods are Los Cristianos and the quieter strip around Las Galletas and Costa del Silencio. No verified source assigns a TITSA bus line to the park gate, so confirm transport with TITSA or the venue.

Arona is one of Tenerife's biggest municipalities, with 87,793 residents on the INE register in January 2025, and its coastline runs from Los Cristianos through Las Americas to Costa del Silencio. The park's inland position means a hire car or a taxi is the straightforward option from most southern hotels. Tenerife's taxis are white and metered from the start of the trip, and a fixed price can be agreed in advance for excursions, which is worth doing for a hillside destination where the return journey matters as much as the outward one.

Visitors who do use public transport pay for it. The 2026 subsidy that makes passes free applies to Canary Islands residents holding personalised cards only; visitors buy single tickets, the EUR 10 day travelcard or the EUR 50 seven-day travelcard, all sold at airport ticket machines and listed on TITSA's fares page. The same honesty applies to bus routing: TITSA's airport pages list lines 10, 40, 711, 343 and 415 at Tenerife South and lines 20, 30 and 343 at Tenerife North, but no verified page on file assigns a line number to Las Aguilas, so this page assigns none.

For a family staying in Los Cristianos or Costa Adeje, the practical comparison is simple: the park is close enough that a morning visit and an afternoon on a beach such as Playa de las Vistas can share one day, and the golden sand and calm water behind that beach's breakwaters make an easy pairing with a morning of walking jungle paths.

What Can You See and Do at Jungle Park?

The core offer is a walk-through jungle experience: planted tropical vegetation, walk-in aviaries and enclosures along a looping trail, with a bird-of-prey display as the best known show. Listings describe primates, exotic birds and reptiles among the collection, and the park's marketing leans on the jungle setting rather than on big rides. Show times, feeding schedules and closures are published by the venue, and none is verified on file, so check the park's own channels first.

The shape of a visit matters more at a park like this than at a flat, open zoo. The terrain is hillside, the paths are themed and winding, and the shade from the planting is part of the design. That cuts both ways in the Tenerife climate: the vegetation keeps the middle of the day cooler than an open seafront, but the climbs are real, and pushchairs and mobility should be considered before arrival. The park's own accessibility information is the thing to read, and this desk has no verified page for it.

The bird-of-prey display deserves its reputation as the anchor of the day. Free-flight raptor shows run to published times, and the listings that describe the park treat the display as the reason to plan the visit around a schedule rather than to drift in at random. Beyond the show, the park functions as a slow walk: aviaries, primate enclosures and reptile houses strung together by the jungle trail, with rest points and a food offer whose hours and prices the venue confirms.

A word on honesty, because it shapes every recommendation on this site. Jungle Park is not on this site's verified roster as a standalone bookable product, so no card on this page sells its entry ticket. What the roster does carry are the island's other headline parks and the combined ticket that covers two of them, and those cards print live prices and ratings from the operators' own listings. If a combined ticket fits your plans, the section on costs below sets out how it works.

Is Jungle Park or Siam Park the Better Day Out?

The two parks answer different questions: Jungle Park is a zoological park built around animals and jungle planting, while Siam Park is a water park, open daily at 10:00 to 18:00 from 1 May to 29 Oct and 10:00 to 17:00 from 30 Oct to 30 Apr on its official page. Families with young children or a cool-weather day tend to suit Jungle Park; families wanting slides and swimming suit Siam Park.

The comparison is really about the day's shape. A water park day is a swimwear day: you arrive near opening, stay until the children are finished, and the weather does the heavy lifting. A jungle park day is a walking day: comfortable shoes, a show schedule, and a route that can be shortened or stretched. In Tenerife's south, where AEMET's normals for Tenerife South Airport show mean daily maxima of 27.7 Celsius in July and 21.7 in January, both work year round, but a January morning at 21 degrees is walking weather more than water-slide weather.

Siam Park's own standing is documented, with a caveat this site always attaches. Loro Parque's release states that Tripadvisor awarded it the Travellers' Choice award for the best water park in the world for a fifth consecutive year, but the release is undated in its body, so later years are unconfirmed and this site does not print them as current. What is current and verified is the park's schedule, quoted above from its own opening-hours page, and the fact that it sits in Costa Adeje, within the resort strip rather than uphill of it.

There is a third option worth naming for families doing the park circuit: Monkey Park near Los Cristianos is a small primate park, closer to the coast and quicker to walk than either of the big names, and it works well as a short-visit alternative when a full day is too much. The full water-park picture, including Aqualand Costa Adeje, is laid out in the water parks guide.

How Does Jungle Park Compare with Tenerife's Other Animal Parks?

Tenerife's headline animal park is Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz, open 09:30 to 17:30 every day of the year with its own car park at EUR 7 per day, on the venue's own FAQ page. Jungle Park is the southern, jungle-themed alternative, and Monkey Park is the small primate park near Los Cristianos. Verified hours exist for Loro Parque and not for Jungle Park, so the comparison that matters is location and theme, and the venue confirms the rest.

The geography decides most of it. Loro Parque is in the north, at Puerto de la Cruz, which for a family based in Costa Adeje or Los Cristianos means a long transfer each way; Jungle Park is minutes from the southern resorts. Travellers staying in the north, or wanting the larger collection, go to Loro Parque; travellers in the south wanting a half-day animal park before an afternoon on a beach go to Las Aguilas.

One planning point that families miss: the combined ticket. The roster carries a twin ticket covering Loro Parque and Siam Park together, which suits a week-long holiday that can absorb one northern day and one water-park day. It does not cover Jungle Park, so a Jungle Park visit is booked or paid for separately, and the passes and combined tickets guide explains which combinations exist.

When Is the Best Time to Visit Jungle Park Tenerife?

The south of Tenerife is warm enough for an outdoor park in every month: AEMET's normals for Tenerife South Airport show mean daily maxima from 21.7 Celsius in January to 28.4 in August, with July and August recording zero rain days. Any month works, so the better question is the time of day: the park's show schedule and the midday sun decide the arrival hour, and the venue's published times settle it.

The climate data is worth reading closely, because it is the one thing about this visit that is fully verified. The air normals are AEMET's 1981 to 2010 series for the airport station at 64 m, and the sea figures are NOAA's 1991 to 2020 series: two datasets and two periods, never quoted as one. What they show is a southern coast with a genuinely narrow temperature range, a dry summer and a modest winter, which is why the park can operate year round without a closed season.

Crowding is the other axis, and the island's own numbers describe it. ISTAC's series counts tourists arriving by air, excluding Canary Islands residents: in 2025 the peak months were December at 671,202 and November at 659,656, while the quietest were May at 539,410 and June at 542,881. A park visit in late spring therefore shares the island with fewer arriving visitors than one at New Year, though a park's own busiest hours are a matter for the venue's experience, not for a statistic.

What Should You Know Before You Go?

Confirm four things with the venue before you build a day around Jungle Park: the current opening hours, the ticket price, the show times for the bird-of-prey display, and the transport option if you are not driving. None of those four figures is verified on an official page on file, and third-party numbers for them circulate widely and age badly. What is verified is everything around the visit: the park's location in Arona, the climate, the visitor transport prices and the island's rules.

Footwear and water are the two things every hillside park visit in Tenerife shares with its hiking trails. The paths at Las Aguilas are themed and maintained, but they climb, and the summer sun is real even under planting. The island's other walking rules are stricter than most visitors expect, and they are worth knowing even away from the trails: smoking is banned in every open-air space of Teide National Park, car parks included, as a wildfire measure, and a similar no-smoking culture applies to planted public spaces across the island.

Money questions have clean answers here. Tenerife has no tourist tax: no official page read shows a per-night lodging tax in force or approved, and the charges that do exist are per-booking fees on specific trails and sites, such as the Teide trail fees and the Masca ticket. The Canaries apply IGIC rather than VAT, at 7% on everyday goods in the tax agency's table. And the island's 2025 tourism balance, published by the tourist board, records 5,451,268 tourists lodged in hotels and apartments, which is the scale of the crowd every southern attraction now shares its season with.

Can You Combine Jungle Park with Other Days Out?

Yes, and the park's position in Arona makes combination easier than for any northern attraction: a Jungle Park morning pairs with a beach afternoon at Playa de las Vistas or Las Teresitas' southern counterparts, a whale-watching trip from Los Cristianos or Costa Adeje fits a different day entirely, and the island's bigger excursions, from Teide to La Gomera, are full days that should not share an itinerary with a park visit. The pairing to avoid is two major parks on one day.

The southern resort strip runs on exactly this logic. A week based in the south can absorb a park day, a boat day, a Teide day and a lazy beach day without any of them crowding another, and the itineraries for three, five and seven days are built on that spacing. A family that tries Siam Park in the morning and Jungle Park in the afternoon will enjoy neither: both are half-day-plus commitments, and the show schedule at Las Aguilas does not bend around a water park's closing time.

For the boat day, the roster's whale-watching options run from Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje, and the waters between Tenerife and La Gomera are a designated Whale Heritage Area under the World Cetacean Alliance's programme, holding what the alliance calls a unique resident population of pilot whales. Authorised boats fly the Barco Azul flag, and the rules that protect the animals come from Decreto 178/2000: no approach within 60 metres, at most three boats within 500 metres, and no swimming within 500 metres. A no-chase, respectful operator is the one worth booking.

That pattern, a park morning on one day and a boat afternoon on another, is the backbone of a good southern week, and the two kinds of day are cheap to get wrong and easy to get right: space them, book the park with the venue and the boat with a listed operator, and let each half of the week carry its own energy. The cards below bring together the three options that pair most naturally with a stay within reach of Las Aguilas.

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