Inside Jameos del Agua - A lava-tube lagoon, blind albino crabs and César Manrique’s white pool
A tiny white crab, smaller than your fingernail, shines against black rock in a lagoon that has never seen direct sunlight.Jameos del Agua is...
A day at Timanfaya National Park - The Fire Mountains, a volcano-heated grill and camel rides across the lava
On 1 September 1730 the earth split open beside a quiet farming village. Almost three hundred years later, chicken is still being grilled over...
Visiting Teide National Park - Roques de García, crater viewpoints and some of Europe’s best stargazing
Drive an hour uphill from the beach and the air turns thin and cool, the pines give way to lava, and you find yourself...
Loro Park tickets and tips - Orcas, penguins in real snow and the world’s largest parrot collection
It opened in 1972 with 150 parrots on a small plot of land. Today the same park keeps penguins on a man-made iceberg, under...
Jungle Park Tenerife in 5 hours - A family day plan with shows, lemurs and the BOB slide
Where else in the dry south of the island can you walk through a bat cave, cross a rope bridge and have an eagle...
Is Oasis Park Fuerteventura worth it? Camels, elephants and a giant cactus garden in the south
There are more camels here than anywhere else in Europe. The elephants and hippos you'll meet later are the only ones in the Canary...