It's kind of crazy how close La Gomera is to the most touristy part of the Canary Islands, which is the south of Tenerife,' says Marek. 'It's just takes a short ferry ride to get to La Gomera but ...

The Canary Islands archipelago is ... shopping and restaurants. La Gomera is one of the smaller and lesser-developed islands in the Canaries. It actually stretches only 15 miles across.

To prevent it from disappearing like the other whistled languages of the Canary Islands, it is important to do more for its transmission and promote the Silbo Gomero as intangible cultural heritage ...

The next day we stepped off the beaten path even further and took a 45-minute ferry trip from Tenerife’s port in Los Cristianos to the second smallest of the Canary Islands, La Gomera.