There is a saying in Lanzarote: Visit Lanzarote once, and love it forever. It is certainly true that this most northerly of the Canary Islands engenders huge loyalty amongst its visitors. Many return to the island year after year with their children, who in turn grow up, marry, and then bring their own children back every year. And so it goes on…
But what is about Lanzarote that excites such a sense of loyalty? Well, the weather is consistently great, for a start! This is a place where the daytime temperatures rarely drop below 20 Celsius, but where cooling Atlantic breezes still keep the air comfortable, even in the hottest months when temperatures can reach 32 Celsius and higher.
The breathtaking scenery, is so spectacular that Lanzarote has often been used as a photoshooting, and feature film location. The most recent of these was Pedro Almodovars Las Abrozas Rotos (The Broken Embraces) in 2008, starring Penelope Cruz. The first popular film that most people remember being made here was in the late 1960s, when the rural volcanic terrain of Lanzarote was chosen for the film One Million Years BC, starring Raquel Welch. In your memory goes back further than this, you may even remember Moby Dick in 1956! The combination of high volcanic mountain peaks, the dramatic and lonely timelessness of the malpais (vast fields of eroding volcanic rocks and lava that cover large areas of the island), and beautiful views of the surrounding Atlantic Ocean, is truly awe-inspiring.