Canarias (Canary Islands) Region Travel Guide

This is the most lovely place on Gran Canaria. All fish restaurants in the marina are outstanding

One of the islands I went to while visiting the Canary Islands was Lanzarote. It was one of the most amazing places on earth that I have been to for natural beauty. It is where they filled "Enemy Mine" an older movie. They used the landscape here to be a different planet and it is in some ways, alien in it's beauty. There isone area where there is a bright emerald green pool of water set in the black volcanic sand, a few hundreed feet from it is the bright azure ocean and it is surrounded by red, craggy cliffs. Remarkable. An artist, I believe, named Cesaer Manrique used the island as his canvas if you will and helped in designing the attractions so that they would blend with the natural beauty of the island. So it's opera house is in a lava tube with amazing acoustics and the only place where there is a pool of tiny white blind crabs that exist no where else in the world.  The Vocanic park on the island boasts a restaurant that cooks with the heat rising from the vocanic vents.  You can cook an egg in the sand in a couple of minutes. You can ride a camel. You can go spluenking (sp) to your heart's desire.  A truly special place but I can't find it on this program. It is, I am sure, however, one of the Canary Islands off of Africa.

Must rent a car and go around the island. A lot of hidden nice restaurant inside non touristic areas... Called also the eternal spring island!