Holiday and Travel Guides for the Canary Islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.

Fuerteventura Holiday Guide. The often windy Canary Island of Fuerteventura is about a four and a half hour flight from Gatwick in England and is well known for it's surfing - however we like going on holiday to Fuerteventura for it's fantastic beaches (especially the naturist beaches), good food and excellent track and costal walking.
Fuerteventura Holiday Beaches Guide are excellent for naturist to use and there are some really enjoyable naturist beach-walks possible as well. You can find quite isolated beaches if you prefer to be more or less alone or you can go onto the often quite busy beaches around the sand dunes north of Caleta.
Our Fuerteventura topics have lots of information about Corralejo and it's extensive sand dunes, the popular package holiday resorts of Caleta de Fuste and Costa Calma, the brilliantly wild and fairly deserted Jandia Peninsula, Las Playitas and it's Barranco and black sandy beach, the Lighthouse at El Faro de Entallada, a scenic drive around Cardon and the really nice town of Pajara. For anyone interested in some Walks on Fuerteventura on Fuerteventura whilst on holiday we have described quite a few walks - from out in the sand dunes to coastal hiking to walking up (extinct) volcanic cones and also wandering out into the lava areas - these walks are all accompanied with many photos.

Gran Canaria Holiday Guide. We thought that apart from the obvious attraction of it's beaches Gran Canaria was also excellent for holiday sightseeing. The round-shaped island has lots of forests and barrancos which are well worth visiting up in it's mountainous interior and there are also an extensive series of paths out in the hills and forests plus plenty of walking available around the island's coastline.
Gran Canaria has plenty of really great beaches to explore and use whilst on holiday - one of the best known is the huge beach area at Maspolomos which is also well known for it's extensive sand dunes. Maspolomos beach is well used by naturists and you will also probably find naturists in amongst the dunes. Note for swimmers around here it's worth noting that much of the wide sandy beach area located between Faro and Maspolomos is red flagged due to dangerous currents.

Locations and Places of interest for sightseeing and visiting whilst on holiday in Gran Canaria.
Playa des Ingles. A sprawling area full of hotels which seamlessley joins into Maspolomos.
Puerto Rico Lots of people stay here for their holidays - the hotels and apartments are built right up the sides of the barranco and go quite a distance inland as well. Puerto Rico has quite a large and pleasant sandy beach which is particularly good for children
Puerto de Mogan. Quite a lot of building has occured further up Puerto de Mogan's barranco but this seaside holiday area and port is quite pretty and would be our first choice to stay at on a future visit. There are plenty of restaurants and bars, a lovely harbour area with fishing boats etc. all of which are perfect for an evening stroll after your meal - and Puerto de Mogan has a really good beach.

Mirador/Pico and the Caldera de Bandama. South of Tafira the Mirador is certainly a place to visit, offering excellent views of Las Palmas and the surrounding countryside.
Tejeda. Don't miss a trip out to this small town located in the centre of Gran Canaria but do go early since loads of coach trips turn up every day. Tejeda probably has the nicest looking church on the island.

 

Lanzarote Holiday Guide. The Canary Island of Lanzarote is quite different to it's nearest neighbour Fuerteventura - it is a particularly unusual and scenic Canary Island. Lanzarote has a lot to offer for a holiday with it's excellent beaches, great sightseeing around the coasts, volcanic areas and of course the island normally enjoys lovely Canary Island weather to help survive a hard day out at a beach.
Walking on Lanzarote: Lanzarote is a great place for walks and on our Lanzarote Walks page we have described 11 walks all of which are packed with pictures. The walks are a mixture of one way or circular trips and vary in distance from just a few kilometres to longer and quite tiring 20km efforts.
Lanzarote Holiday Beaches. Possibly the best Lanzarote beaches can be found in the south of the Island around Playa Blanca. Playa de Papagayo is probably the most well known but there also great beaches at Mujeres and Pozo. As is normally the case on the Canary Islands most of Lanzarote's Holiday Beaches are generally available for both naturists and non-naturists i.e. you can take your pick on just how much to wear (or not to wear) whilst sunbathing and swimming - it's up to you with nobody (usually) getting excited about things. One of our favourite beaches for naturist swimming and sunbathing was at the often very under used Playa de Famara beach - a really wild and scenic beach with it's backdrop of rugged colourful cliffs and gorgeous waves - but no facilities.

Various Lanzarote locations and places to consider visiting whilst on holiday:
Salinas de Janubio - Lanzarote's huge saltplan area.
Los Hervidores - you can watch the waves pounding in through blowholes.
El Golfo - with it's unusual bright green water lagoon.
La Geria - Parque Natural de los Volcanos - Timanfaya area.
Teguise - a really nice little town which also has a large Sunday market.
La Graciosa - a small island just off Lanzarote's Coast - really interesting to visit for the day - there is also a short walk described for that island. Please see our Volcanic Lanzarote for topics on the above.

 

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