Places To Visit Well Worth Visiting To Keep You Entertained In Lanzarote

If you are looking for places to visit when you have booked a villa in Lanzarote to rent to help you escape from the beach, then going to Timanfaya Volcano Park is a must and probably top of your list if it is your first visit to the island.

You are taken up to the top of the mountain, or drive in a hire car, to the car park at the visitor centre. The journey through the park is amazing. It is described as being a lunar scene and that is honestly the feeling that you do get as you watch fields of solidified volcanic lava that have been untouched since they were laid down. The area is now a protected park to help preserve this landscape.

Once you reach the car park at the top of the visitor center there are an abundance of uniformed guides to entertain you. They will demonstrate how a bucket of water poured down into a bore hole erupts seconds later as steam, heated unbelievably fast just by the temperature of the rocks below the ground. Another favorite trick is to place some brushwood into the rocks and then it is pulled out burning not long later. Again, this is just the heat of the rocks.

Also within the visitor centre is a fairly unique restaurant. There are no conventional ovens. Instead the food is cooked from the heat given off from a hole in the ground. The demonstrations of the heat given off from the subterranean rocks are certainly varied!

There is also a guided coach tour from the visitor center that lets tourists see a little more of the area and the rock formations. All of this makes Timanfaya, Fire Mountain, worthy of a visit!

When you are renting a private villa in Lanzarote there are lots to see and do, as well as the beaches and Timanfaya National Park. The island is easy to get around either in a hire car or in organized tours. Take your pick!

A favorite place to visit, especially for my little girl, is the Cactus Garden, designed by local artist Cesar Manrique. There are a wide selection of cactus plants on show, well over a thousand species in fact, in this sunken garden that can be sheltered from the hottest of the elements. There is also a restored white windmill to visit within the gardens, which includes the site’s caf