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Best national parks in the Canary Islands

The Canary Islands hold four of Spain’s sixteen national parks. Teide, on Tenerife, is the most visited national park in Europe: a caldera of lava flows at 2,000 metres, a cable car to 3,555, and a free permit, booked months ahead, for the final path to the 3,715-metre summit; the Corona Forestal pine belt surrounds it. Timanfaya, on Lanzarote, is the lava sea of the 1730s eruptions, seen only from the park coach on the Ruta de los Volcanes, with geothermal demonstrations at the Islote de Hilario.

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Teide National Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Teide is the volcano at the centre of Tenerife and the most visited national park in Spain, and it is reached from…

48 tickets & tours

Timanfaya National Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Timanfaya is the lava field of south-western Lanzarote, half an hour from the island's resorts, and it is a park…

13 tickets & tours

Corralejo Natural Park

Canary Islands, Spain

The Corralejo dunes lie immediately south of the resort town of Corralejo at the northern tip of Fuerteventura in the…

7 tickets & tours

Jandía Natural Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Jandía is the mountainous peninsula that forms the south-western tail of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, joined to…

4 tickets & tours

Garajonay National Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Garajonay occupies the summit plateau of La Gomera, the small, round, deeply ravined island that lies within sight of…

1 ticket or tour

Corona Forestal Natural Park

Canary Islands, Spain

The Corona Forestal, the forest crown, is the great ring of pine woods that encircles the high central part of…

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Garajonay, on La Gomera, is a fog-fed laurel forest, a relic of the Tertiary, with easy marked trails. The Caldera de Taburiente, on La Palma, is an erosion crater eight kilometres wide, walked from Los Brecitos down the Barranco de las Angustias. On Fuerteventura, the Corralejo dunes and the wild Jandia peninsula with Cofete beach are natural parks.

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