Walking on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. Paddy Dillon

       Getting there

       Getting around

       Accommodation

       Food and drink

       Tourist information offices

       South Lanzarote

       Walk 1 Femés and Barranco de la Casita

       Walk 2 Femés and Pico de las Flores

       Walk 3 Femés to Puerto Calero

       Walk 4 Femés to Playa Blanca

       Walk 5 Playa Blanca to El Golfo

       Walk 6 Yaiza to Tinajo

       Walk 7 Mozaga to Uga

       Walk 8 Cueva de los Naturalistas

       Walk 9 Mancha Blanca and Caldera Blanca

       North Lanzarote

       Walk 10 Tinajo, Sóo and Caleta de Famara

       Walk 11 Tiagua, Sóo and Caleta de Famara

       Walk 12 Teguise to Caleta de Famara

       Walk 13 Costa Teguise and Montaña Tinaguache

       Walk 14 Teguise to Guatiza

       Walk 15 Arrieta to Caleta de Famara

       Walk 16 Ye and Salinas del Río

       Isla La Graciosa

       Walk 17 Caleta del Sebo and Montaña Amarilla

       Walk 18 Caleta del Sebo and Montaña Bermeja

       GR 131 – Playa Blanca to Órzola

       Walk 19 GR 131 – Playa Blanca to Yaiza

       Walk 20 GR 131 – Yaiza to Montaña Blanca

       Walk 21 GR 131 – Montaña Blanca to Teguise

       Walk 22 GR 131 – Teguise to Haría

       Walk 23 GR 131 – Haría to Órzola

       FUERTEVENTURA

      Introduction

       Getting there

       Getting around

       Accommodation

       Food and drink

       Tourist information offices

       Jandía

       Walk 24 El Puertito and Las Talahijas

       Walk 25 Gran Valle and Cofete

       Walk 26 Pico de la Zarza

       Walk 27 Costa Calma and Playa de Sotavento

       Mid-Fuerteventura

       Walk 28 Cardón and Montaña de Cardón

       Walk 29 Vega de Río Palmas to Ajuy

       Walk 30 Tiscamanita and Morro Jorjado

       Walk 31 Antigua to Betancuria

       North Fuerteventura

       Walk 32 Casillas del Ángel, Tefía and Tetir

       Walk 33 Tindaya, Vallebrón and La Matilla

       Walk 34 Lajares, El Cotillo and Playa de Esquinzo

       Walk 35 Lajares and Calderón Hondo

       Walk 36 Parque Natural de Corralejo

       GR 131 – El Puertito to Isla de Lobos

       Walk 37 GR 131 – Punta de Jandía to Morro Jable

       Walk 38 GR 131 – Morro Jable to Barranco de Pecenescal

       Walk 39 GR 131 – Barranco de Pecenescal to La Pared

       Walk 40 GR 131 – La Pared to Pájara

       Walk 41 GR 131 – Pájara to Betancuria

       Walk 42 GR 131 – Betancuria to Tefía

       Walk 43 GR 131 – Tefía to La Oliva

       Walk 44 GR 131 – La Oliva to Corralejo

       Walk 45 GR 131 – Isla de Lobos

       Appendix A Route summary table

       Appendix B Topographical glossary

       Appendix C Useful contacts

      Ancient, worn, volcanic hills rise in the middle of Isla La Graciosa

      Walkers crossing the barren Barranco de la Casita on Lanzarote, near a small shelter (Walk 1, Lanzarote)

INTRODUCTION

      Walkers leaving the summit of Morro de la Loma del Pozo, heading for the Barranco de la Higuera (Walk 1, Lanzarote)

      The seven sub-tropical Canary Islands bask in sunny splendour off the Atlantic coast of north-west Africa. Millions of sun-starved north Europeans flock there for beach holidays, but increasingly visitors are discovering the amazing variety of landscapes throughout the archipelago. Conditions range from semi-deserts to perpetually moist laurisilva ‘cloud forests’, from rugged cliff coasts to high mountains, from fertile cultivation terraces to awesome rocky barrancos carved deep into multi-coloured layers of volcanic bedrock. Some areas are given the highest possible protection as national parks, but there are many more types of protected landscapes, rural parks, natural monuments