A Excursion To Timanfaya Is Well Worth The Trip When Staying In Puerto Del Carmen

A Excursion To Timanfaya Is Well Worth The Trip When Visiting Puerto Del Carmen.

Puerto Del Carmen lies roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a 10 minute drive from the island’s capital and airport in Arrecife. Puerto Del Carmen was originally a small fishing village and the old harbor remains for visitors to explore and visit the many seafood restaurants. It now encompasses around four miles of beaches, including wide beach expanses and small coves.

There are many diving schools in Puerto Del Carmen for both the learner, the experienced and those wanting to further their diving log book. Both PADI and BSAC are generally recognized and English is spoken at many diving schools. Most schools utilize the same small bay from which shore entries and harbor entries are available on a range of dives, including a reef with Pink Coral. Motoring further out are the Los Erizos wrecks at a depth of around 60 feet. A collection of boats sunk to create a reef for divers to experience just outside of the harbor entrance.

If you fancy seeing the different types of sea-life on offer, but don’t want to get wet, there is always the yellow submarine tour, which also visits the wrecks. Keep an eye out for the divers watching the submarines go by? There are also cycle hire stores in the main shopping area and a new golf course under construction on the out skirts of the town.

With Lanzarote’s strict planning permission there are no high rise apartments in the resort. Finding villas to rent in Puerto Del Carmen is commonplace and there are an excellent choice of villas available.

If you are looking for places to visit when you have booked a villa in Lanzarote to help you escape from the beach, then going to Timanfaya Volcano Park is a must and could be 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 an experience. It is described as being a lunar scene and that is truly 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.

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

The visitor centre also houses a fairly unusual restaurant There are no powered 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 shows tourists a little more of the area and the rock formations. All of this makes Timanfaya, Fire Mountain, well worth a visit!

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