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Love Lanzarote!

Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by blogger in Uncategorized

Just about everyone you meet these days who is heading off to warmer shores this Winter is going to the same destination: Lanzarote. It’s easy to picture a small island positively heaving with sun-starved Brits staggering off planes and forming an orderly queue to the beach.

It’s a lovely temperature at this time of year, around 21C, and just four hours on a plane will get you there, so you don’t have to travel to the other side of the world to enjoy summery sun.

Once you’re there, there are some ninety-odd beaches to choose from around the island, and plenty of good hotels to stay in. Since it’s so popular with the UK tourist market, most people speak English and if you want egg and chips then you shall have it! There are ways and means of escaping the crowd and sampling a bit of local culture and food, though, so don’t write Lanzarote off as a Blackpool with sun. Try some of these tourist attractions:

1. Timanfaya Volcano Park
Easily the best tourist attraction on the island, this park was formed from an enormously-long volcanic eruption in the 1700s. Take a coach tour around the park to see all the bizarre terrain in all its glory.
2. The Cactus Garden
Located in Guatiza, this former quarry has been developed to house more than a thousand different types of cacti.
3. Mirador Del Rio
This is a simply amazing viewpoint, located on one of the highest points of the island and affording a spectacular vista across La Graciosa, Montana Clara and Alegranza.
4. Jameos Del Agua
This is a six kilometre-long lava tube, long-since collapsed, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year because it is now a subterranean auditorium. Inside are tropical gardens, a restaurant, a bar and an underground lagoon home to native blind albino crabs. There’s also a swimming pool (though it’s only for use by the King of Spain…) and an underground concert hall.
5. Cesar Manrique Foundation
This is a house built by the eponymous Cesar Manrique. What’s special about it is that it was built to be integrated into five volcanic bubbles. It really is a wonder of architecture.

Visit Lanzarote for warmth, and do your best to escape the rest of the UK who will be travelling with you by heading to these destinations away from the beaches – or just sit back and enjoy your egg and chips.