Ajuy beach in Fuerteventura
Surely the reason that will lead you to travel to Fuerteventura It is to enjoy its paradisiacal beaches, and if you also do the trip in winter, enjoy the pleasant temperatures of the island.
But in your vacation or getaway to Fuerteventura You will not spend all day at the beach or in the hotel pool.
Surely you want to know the main tourist attractions this Canary Island.
Rural architecture in Betancuria in Fuerteventura
Therefore, we are going to propose a tourist route through Fuerteventura, which you can do in one or two days.
This will depend on the time you dedicate to each visit, more taking into account that there are just over 100 kilometers from end to end of the island.
To get to know the island, you have the option of joining an organized group that will take you through the company of a tour guide in a minivan.
Here you have the information about the Fuerteventura tour in which, during an eight-hour day, you will visit corners such as La Oliva, Pájara, Betancuria, Ajuy and Corralejo.
What to see in Fuerteventura
But if you prefer to visit on your own, we propose this route that goes from north to south of the island.
Dunes of Corralejo in Fuerteventura
It starts in Corralejo, one of the most tourist areas of the island, and is the same as I did in my last trip to Fuerteventura.
Depending on the area of the island where you are staying, from this information you can plan your own route or specific visits.
Here I detail you different places of interest What can you visit.
Natural Park of Dunes of Corralejo
The biggest attraction of north of the island of Fuerteventura is undoubtedly the natural park of Corralejo.
Front of Lanzarote Island, which you can cross by ferry in just 20 minutes, and the little one Lobos Island, a natural enclave with great wealth of fauna and flora, you have the great area of dunes of Corralejo.
Tostón lighthouse in El Cotillo on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands
It is a place where you can enjoy endless beaches of very fine sand, which is enough argument to explain the tourist development of the small town of the same name.
El Cotillo and El Tostón Lighthouse
To the west of Corralejo, you should approach the area of the small town of El Cotillo.
It is very close, only 20 kilometers away, but the landscape change is total.
Facing the coast area with fine sandy beaches that you find in the aforementioned natural dune park, when you pass to the western side of the island you will find an area of cliffs, coves of black sand and stones, as well as natural pools.
It is a corner of Fuerteventura Little visited, which mainly concentrates local Canarian tourism, and whose most prominent enclave is the El Tostón Lighthouse, which are really three headlights.
Candelaria church in La Oliva in Fuerteventura
The olive
A little further south of El Cotillo you find the small town of The olive, where the Candelaria church, of 1711, the one of greater dimensions of the island,
There you will also see the House of the Colonels, a stately building from the early seventeenth century reflecting the system of military government of the island in the early stages of colonization.
Alcogida Ecomuseum
En route south, already inside the island, you will pass by the Tindaya Mountain, that is not going to seem anything special to you ... but that was considered magical by the ancient inhabitants of the island.
You will reach the population of Tefia, near which is the La Alcogida ecomuseum, a recreation of an old agricultural farm on the island.
Santa María de Betancuria church in Fuerteventura
During your visit, in its various rooms, including animal pens, you can see the way of life in the rural areas of Fuerteventura in the 19th century.
In addition, you will see various handmade products and you can try one of the gastronomic specialties of the island, the rich Majorero cheese.
Betancuria
Whatever the first capital of the Canary Islands, Betancuria, it will be your next stage on this route.
It was founded by the first conquerors in 1404, and now you find a small village with beautiful samples of rural architecture and what was the first cathedral of the island, the church of Santa Maria.
In Betancuria you can also visit a small archaeological and ethnographic museum.
Aztec portico of the church of Pájara in Fuerteventura
Pájara
Before arriving at Pájara you will pass by Las Peñitas viewpoint.
You are in one of the most mountainous areas of the island and, in addition, from this viewpoint you can see the coastal area where the first conquerors who landed on the island accessed.
Already in the small town of Pájara you must stop to see the Church of Our Lady of the Rule, 17th century.
Specifically look at your curious porch with aztec decoration carried out at the initiative of a Indian Arrived from the Americas.
The Pájara church It is one of the most interesting monumental corners of Fuerteventura.
Ajuy beach in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands
Ajuy natural monument
Then you return to the west coast to see another of the most prominent places on the island, the Ajuy beach, which opens before a small fishing village where you can taste the gastronomy from the area
Here is the so-called natural monument of Ajuy, the first area that emerged to the surface in the process of formation of Canary Islands.
It is a corner of great geological interest, with an estimated age of more than 100 million years.
Costa Calma and Jandía
In this route through Fuerteventura, you reach the south of the island.
Costa Calma beaches in Jandía south of Fuerteventura
Or maybe you are staying in one of its hotels, with numerous all-inclusive resortsor, it is the most tourist area of the island, since in Jandía 70 percent of the tourists who visit this island, mostly the British, are concentrated.
It is another area of extensive beaches of fine sand. and with an ideal wind for surfing.
Undoubtedly, the area of dunes that as a natural isthmus unites the rest of the island with the promontory of the natural park of Jandía, which millions of years ago was a small island.
Cofete Beach
Here one of the most famous beaches of Fuerteventura is located due to its almost virgin state, that of Coffe, which I could not visit on my trip to the island.
You will reach this beach of twelve kilometers of extension from Morro Jable by a winding track in defective condition (4 × 4 vehicle is advised), which runs through a mountainous area and finally leads you to the village that gives its name to the Cofete Beach.
With all this information you can configure your own route through Fuerteventura, according to your preferences.
Enjoy the island!
