Lanzarote
A fantastic island with great beaches and volcanic landscape with warm weather all year-round.
After a long flight of around 5 hours from Manchester to Lanzarote and another 50 minutes bus ride we have arrived to Elba Lanzarote hotel located South of the island, in Playa Blanca. Once we have arrived in Lanzarote we were happy to feel the warmth of the island.
Lanzarote, one of the Canary islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 125 kilometres (78 miles) off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) from the Iberian Peninsula. Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. From Playa Blanca beach you can see the neighbour island, Fuerteventura and use the ferries if you want to cross and visit it.
The hotel has an adult only section with separate outdoor pool and bar which was fantastic. The food was as expected delicious with influences from Africa, Spain and England due to great number of British tourists.
We don’t really like to sit all day by the pool so after breakfast we went outside of the hotel to explore the area.
Near our hotel, Playa Flamingo has a lovely beach and promenade with few restaurants. The majority of restaurants are serving classic English breakfast and lunch which was a little bit disappointing for us as we wanted to try and experience the local traditional food.
We stopped for a nice lunch at a local restaurant on Playa Blanca. The sea food was amazing with great atmosphere and good beer or wine.
The next day we went for a nice long walk to the Marina Rubicon market and the harbour.
The Playa Blanca is a great place where you can relax, go for a nice walk, enjoy the weather and the nice clean beaches.
The following day we’ve spent all day on the beach and tried snorkelling for the first time. I am not a very good swimmer and I get scarred if I can’t reach the bottom of the water but snorkelling in Playa Blanca was lovely. The shallow water allows you to go further from the beach and see a lot of small colourful fish.
Timanfaya National Park is Spanish national park in the southwestern part of the island, very popular tourist attraction for it’s volcanic landscape. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. The volcanic activity continues as the surface temperature in the core ranges from 100 to 600 °C (212 to 1,112 °F) at the depth of 13 metres (43 ft), which is demonstrated by pouring water into the ground, resulting in a geyser of steam which is an attraction for tourists. There is only one active volcano, Timanfaya volcano, after which the park is named.
The meat for the restaurant is also cooked using the heat from the ground which also demonstrate the surface temperature is very high.
If you try to look inside the hall be careful as you might burn your face.
