![]() ![]() Gran Canaria Airport has direct flights to destinations throughout Europe, as well as all of the Canary Islands. You'll find outstanding "eco-fusion" cuisine at Llévame al Huerto. Add to that the farmers' markets and fish markets and you will discover a tempting abundance of food choice. ![]() Along with the aquacultural goods on offer, Gran Canaria's pantry is rich and bountiful. The breathtaking topographic disparities and climatic variations, including contrasting humid trade winds and dry desert-air currents, all help to generate a diverse patchwork of agricultural produce. Gran Canaria arguably has the best range of accommodations in the Canaries, depending on whether you want to wake up to sounds of birdsong, the surf or surrounded by the vigor and excitement of a Spanish-mainland-style city. The bright, colorful and welcoming La Ventana Azul hostel is spectacularly located right on the beachfront and has a rooftop terrace and free snorkel rental. Soak up the distinctive Canarian architecture in soulful capital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain’s ninth-largest city. Explore further on a twists-and-turns road trip through the island’s high-altitude center, whose beauty and drama peak at top-of-the-world cave-village Artenara, before stocking up on creamy queso de flor (flower cheese) and other local goodies at a farmers’ market. Swirls of mist-cloaked mountains give way to desert-like fields and lush laurel and pine forests (and, yes, a few packed-out tourist resorts), while intriguing pre-Hispanic sights like Gáldar’s Cueva Pintada conjure a picture of the archipelago’s original inhabitants, the Guanches. The most populous among the islands, often-maligned Gran Canaria proves as inspiringly diverse as the Canaries’ deliciously varied cuisine. Looking out over Las Palmas de Gran Canaria © Tomasz Czajkowski / Shutterstock Gran Canaria Best island for mountains, history and food Tenerife is the only Canary island blessed with Michelin stars – six at last count, with temples to haute cuisine running from Martín Berasategui’s two-star, Basque-inspired M.B to the Padrón brothers’ seafood sensation El Rincón de Juan Carlos. Across the island, other jaw-droppingly beautiful walks lead past charismatic villages, through perfumed Canarian pine woods or down plunging valleys such as the 4-mile (6.5km) Barranco del Infierno.Īnd then there’s the blossoming, ever-more sophisticated local food scene. Only 200 walkers a day can tackle the five-hour ascent to the summit: book ahead online. Combined with the surreal Unesco-listed 73-sq-mile Parque Nacional del Teide, this impossibly spectacular volcanic moonscape serves up some of the most exciting hiking in all of Spain. Tenerife's Teide National Park, with its namesake peak in the distance © John_Walker / Shutterstock Tenerife Best island for mountains, hiking and foodīeyond the British-geared tourist resorts sprinkled across the island’s south, Spain’s formidable tallest peak – snow-dusted 12,523ft-high El Teide – puts age-old favorite Tenerife on almost every las Canarias itinerary. ![]()
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