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Places to visit
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a car and visit these places at your own pace or go on an organised tour.
A good way of seeing some of Fuerteventura is to go on a trike tour with Cool Runnings, there are 6 tours starting from Caleta de Fuste and 4 tours starting from Corralejo. The tours last from 2 to 8 hours and Top of pagethe prices start from 69 Euros per trike. You can drive these trikes your self or relax and enjoy a chaufeur driven tour, a full driving licences is required and the driver has to be at least 25 years old.
You can book any organised tours through Tourventura in Caleta de Fuste and Last Minute Travel in Corralejo.
La Lajita Oasis Park is a good place to visit; either on an organised tour or by yourself. To get th
ere go south on the FV 2 towards Costa Calma, La Lajita Oasis Park, is approximately 4 km after Tarajalejo. It is open all the year round and is a natural paradise of more than 780.000 m². You will enjoy an unforgettable day visiting one of the most important projects created to protect and preserve the unique flora and fauna of the Canary Island. There are more than 250 different species of animals from all over the world as well as the typical Fuerteventuran Goats, Donkeys and the "Majorero" Camel. Enjoy the professional shows, which includes parrots, sealions, birds of prey, crocodile & snakes! Travel through the African savannah on a safari truck and join the 30 minute camel trek. The park has three restaurants offering snaks, international meals and traditional canarian food.
The park is open from 09:00 until 18:00 every day, more information from their web site http://www.lajitaoasispark.co
Visit the Baku family park, it is in Corralejo, which is made up of three different themed parks, which is an ideal day out for the family.
The Water Park is an aquatic park with a wide variety of slides, a wave pool and mini golf. At the Animal Experience you can admire the different animals and even have an opporunity of swimming with the sea lions.
Parque Europa is somewhere to visit at the end of your day. Have dinner in one of the restaurants, have a drink in La Terraza but don't forget to visit the Haunted House!
For details of opening times and prices visit www.bakufuerteventura.com. Tel:
Take the grand tours of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, which can be booked at LastMinute travel in Corralejo and Tourventura in Caleta de Fuste. http://www.tourventura.info/
Both excursions have pick up points in Caleta de Fuste, the Lanzarote Grand Tour is on a Tuesday, pick ups start from 8:30am. Fuerteventura. Grand Tour is on a Friday and pick ups start from 9:30am. The pick up points cover the whole resort, so depending on where your accommodation is located depends on the exact time you will be collected.
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On the Lanzarote grand tour you visit Timanfaya Nation Park, where you will see Fire Mountain, were you can watch food being barbecued over a volcano. On the Fuerteventura grand tour you visit La Oliva, sacred Tindata Mountain, goat breeding farm, the natural park "the dunes of Corralejo" and many more places.
Visit the caves of Ajul then stroll along the black sand beach. Ajuy is a small pleasent fishing village on the west coast of Fuerteventura. There is a clearly laid out path to the right of the beach, which goes up, around to the 'Mirador Caleta Negra', the views are spectacular. Walk down the steps to the first cavern at sea level. Both end of this cave are open to the sea. You need to climb over to reach the second caven, a powerful torch is required if you want to explore the back of this cave. Once you have finished exploring, try some fresh locally caught fish in one of the restaurants, it is excellent.
It is a wonderful view from Mirador Morro Velosa, it is worth a visit. It is closed on Sundays and Mondays, but you can always go around the corner with views towards the town of Valle de Santa Ines, the view is just as good. It is not always clear as it suffers from low cloud and can be cold. 
There is a restaurant for some refreshments. It was designed by Cesar Manrique. To get there from Caleta de Fuste: Turn left at the Costa de Antigua roundabout on to FV 413 to Antigua. When you get to Antigua turn right on to FV 20 then left after a short distance on to FV 416; following the signs to Betancuria. Take care, the road has plenty of bends and there is a ditch on the outside of the road.
ANTIGUA - A large inland village with an 18th century Nuestra Seṅora de Antigua church in the centre - it's the oldest on the island, which is well worth a visit. There is also a fully restored windmill, Molina de Antigua.
BETANCURIA - French mercenary Jean de Béthencourt conquered Fuerteventura in 1402 and set up a permanent base therein the 15th century including a chapel. Visitors can still see the ruins of the first monastery plus museums and craft centres.
CORRALEJO - The first tourist area of Fuerteventura. It has wonderful views to Lobos Island and to Lanzarote as w
ell as over 20km² of sand dunes located south east of the town called el Jable.
EL COTILLO - A small underdeveloped fishing village at the northern end of Fuerteventura, on the west coast. The tower, toston in Spanish, from which the views of the new harbour and the beaches were taken, is open to
the public. In the tower you can find a tourist information centre of sorts. Even though the tower was built as a defence against English pirates, some of the information leaflets are in English.
A couple of miles to the north of El Cotillo there is a lighthouse, and a pleasant afternoon can be spent wandering there and back.
ISLA DE LOBOS - A little island north of Corralejo, inhabited by one family that look after the visitors. Each day a boat trav
els from Corralejo to Lobos at 10:00 and returns at 16:00.
LA OLIVA - Home to a 300 year old farmhouse La casa de los Coroneles (House of Colonels). La Oliva was formaly the island's social and political centre. This is currently undergoing a phase reconstruction, but is impressive enough to be worth a visit, and it is located just down from the ayuntamiento. It was built in 1708 and was the home of the military rulers of the island. The parish church of La Oliva, is dedicated to the Virgen de la Candelaria, has three naves and a tower of black stone. There is also a very interesting Grain Museum - Casa de la Cilla.
PUERTO DEL ROSARIO - The capital of Fuerteventura. Superb for shopping and city life with over half the population of fuerteventura live there. Casa Museo de Unamuno is one of the attractions where the exiled Spanish writer / philosopher Miguel de Unamuno stayed briefly in 1942.
The ‘American star’ is well worth a visit on the remote west coast. This is a wreck on the beach of Playa de Garcy. To get there head south on the FV 605 from Pajara for approximately 5km, then turn right on to an unsurfaced road. The ship, once the pride of the United States maritime industry, was wrecked in a storm on its way to Thailand, now it has been converted into a floating hotel. The Cafeteria del Naufragio (Shipwreck Café) in Puerto del Rosario is completely fitted out with windows, doors, paneling and furniture from this once fantastic ship.
In the village Villaverde lies the jameo (entrance) to a lava tube, which is called Cuevo del Llanos. The Cuevo del Llanos is a lava tube which was formed by a lava stream from the Mt. Escanfraga. This chain was formed more than 690,000 years ago, 400m of the lava tube towards north are developed with paths and electric light. The cave is famous for endemic troglobionts, which are portrayed in the little museum at the entrance. Two new endemic kinds of spiders, one only known from this cave, live here, do not worry if you do not like spiders, you do not go that far. Interesting are also the vertebrate fossils, and fossil and subfossil gastropodes found in the cave. An undeveloped 190m long cave Cueva de Villaverde, was discovered in 1979 during construction work.
There are a number of museums that you could visit, the salt museum is just 2 km from Caleta de Fuste at Las Salinas, Fuerteventura. This museum is a cultural complex formed by the El Carmen Salt Flats, built around 1910 and a museum centre that provides an overall view of the culture arising around salt. All museums are closed on Sundays and Mondays.
