A tourist’s guide to La Graciosa
La Graciosa is one of the highlights of anybody’s trip to Lanzarote, but it’s worth planning it an advance. Here’s what to do on your trip.
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Visiting Las Palmas
If you live on Lanzarote, sooner or later you’ll need to go to our provincial capital Las Palmas. Whether it’s for leisure, business, or medical reasons, you’ll discover a city that might just take your breath away.
Where to find Lanzarote’s wild plants
When Lanzarote has been drenched a good few times, gardeners, farmers and sightseers enjoy a brief paradise of greenery and flowers. A wide range of daisies, vetches, violets, mustard, bugloss and other flowers pop up during this brief period. Here’s where you can spot them.
The Timanfaya Tour Experience
Timanfaya is Lanzarote’s most popular tourist excursion, a breathtaking landscape that has thrilled millions of visitors. The Isla Insólita (“extraordinary island”) trips have offered a chance to see parts of the national park usually off-limits to visitors. We went along to find out more.
The best drives on the Canary Islands
There are eight Canary Islands, and all of them are different. Some are popular international tourist destinations, others are quieter and more traditional, and one of them doesn’t even have any roads. So, which is the best for driving? Here are our results in reverse order…
Go Canaries!
There are six more Canary Islands to discover apart from Lanzarote and La Graciosa. With flights and ferries with historically low residents’ discounts available, it’s time to start island-hopping…
Visiting the Montaña Colorada bomb
An island as stunning as Lanzarote is full of photo opportunities, but there are some places that turn up again and again. If you want to combine a fascinating short walk with snaps of one of the island’s most iconic volcanic marvels, then a trip to Montaña Colorada is in order.
The hidden Quarry
The hidden Quarry in Guatiza produced the island’s finest stone from the 50s to the 70s. Take a look at what we found when we visited.
Dolphins and whales spotted on boat tour
One hundred lucky people were able to see a pod of dolphins swimming while on a boat trip organised by the Lanzarote Cabildo to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the island being recognised as a Biosphere Reserve.
The Lanzarote hotel protests of 1988
Tourism on Lanzarote really took off in the 1980s, and while it brought previously unseen wealth to the island, many locals were also horrified by the speed of development.