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Mini Guide to Fuerteventura
Like its fellow Canary Islands, Fuerteventura has a character all of its own and an ambiance far removed from the Spanish mainland. Located barely 50 miles west of Morocco and the Western Sahara, its desert landscape exudes an exoticism far removed from the islands’ traditional image as a package holiday paradise.
As a warm-weather holiday destination forming part of the ever-popular Canaries, Fuerteventura offers the usual helpings of sun, sand, sea and sangría, with most of the action centered around the resort towns of Corralejo and Caleta de Fuste in the north and the Costa Calma coastline in the south. On Fuerteventura the emphasis is very much on the first three of those features, with guaranteed year-round sun, wonderfully natural and unpopulated beaches regularly freshened up by sand blown in from the Sahara, and turquoise waters which offer fantastic diving and snorkelling opportunities. Indeed, water sports are probably where the island is at its most heavenly. The strong winds blowing in from Africa that are thought to have given the island its name – fuerte meaning ‘strong’ and ventura ‘wind’ (though this is still very much open to debate) – make for near-perfect conditions for surfing, windsurfing, kiteboarding and sailing. For lovers of land-based sports, Caleta de Fuste has an excellent golf course which has hosted the Spanish Open, while the island’s spectacular dune-dominated scenery can be explored on foot, or by bike, trike or, best of all, by jeep.
Puerto Rosario, the capital of the island and easily reachable by bus or car, is a surprisingly busy and workaday town and port, and is well worth a visit if all that beach life gets too much. The island only measures about 65 miles from top to bottom, and just 15 miles from east to west at its widest, so exploration is easy and very rewarding.
Fuerteventura Flight News
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