A Trip To Timanfaya Is Well Worth The Trip When Visiting Puerto Del Carmen.
Puerto Del Carmen is located roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a short journey from the island’s capital in Arrecife. Puerto Del Carmen was first 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 scuba diving schools in Puerto Del Carmen for both the learner, the experienced and those wanting to further their diving courses. Both PADI and BSAC are generally taught 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 in about 60 feet of water. A collection of boats sunk to create a reef for divers to visit just outside of the harbor entrance.
If you fancy seeing the variety of sea-life on offer, but don’t want to go diving, 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 shops and a new golf course under construction on the out skirts of the town.
With Lanzarote’s strict planning laws there are no high rise hotels in the resort. Finding a villa to rent in Puerto Del Carmen is commonplace and there are an excellent choice of villas available.
If you are looking for attractions to see when you have booked a Lanzarote villa to rent 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 amazing. It is described as being a lunar scene and that is really the feeling that you do get as you gaze across 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 surprisingly fast just by the heat of the rocks below the ground. Another favorite trick is to place 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 standard 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, well worth a visit!
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