Planning a stay on Lanzarote in the Canaries? Then you have a real treat in store – as this Spanish owned holiday destination has a whole host of high impact visitor attractions for tourists to enjoy. Assuming you can tear yourself away from the pool or the beach of course!
That may be tougher than you think – as the weather on Lanzarote is fantastic all year round and especially hot during the summer months. So make sure your rental vehicle has air con if you are booking car hire. Or take a trip on an air conditioned coach as part of a guided tour. All of which pick up from most Lanzarote hotels. Guests staying in villas in Lanzarote can also join these tours at fixed collection and drop off points close to their accommodation.
The top stop on any tour of Lanzarote has to be the jaw dropping scenery of the Timanfaya Volcano Park, which is one of the most popular National Parks in Spain. The terrain here is all lava fields and volcanoes, creating a lunar like feel that really is out of this world! Tourists aren’t allowed to walk across the lava fields in order to preserve them. So all visitors are taken around the park on coaches driven by expert drivers. Before depositing them back at the Devils Diner – where they can view their lunch being cooked by the heat of a volcano.
All of these volcanoes re now dormant but still emanate a lot of heat. Park wardens are only too happy to demonstrate this by putting water into bore holes – which is then expelled seconds later as jets of steam. Apparently the temperature just beneath the surface here still reaches an eye watering 400 degrees!
For a total contrast to the barren aridity of the lava fields take a tour in then north of the island. Where there are palm packed valleys and whitewashed villages to explore. The best of these is Haria – which also plays host to a great market every week – an ideal spot for souvenir hunters.
Haria is located on the floor of the Valley of 1000 Palms – which is like a huge oasis with loads of Canarian palm trees swaying in the breeze. Most of these were planted by proud parents who follow the tradition of putting a new palm in the ground whenever a baby is born in the village.
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