Explore the unique Timanfaya National Park

Explore the unique Timanfaya National Park Driving through the dramatic, scorched and molten looking landscape surrounding the entrance to Timanfaya, its easy to see why

Driving through the dramatic, scorched and molten looking landscape surrounding the entrance to Timanfaya, its easy to see why Cesar Manique left the satanic El Diablo symbol guarding its entrance and christened them the Mountains of Fire.

The striking volcanic landscape covers a quarter of the island, and was created during six years of violent eruptions starting in 1730. The scale of the eruptions was enormous, with more than 100 volcanoes depositing an estimated 2,000,000,000m3 of lava onto previously-fertile land and destroying neighbouring villages. To this day, locals give thanks every September to the Lady of Sorrows for stopping the lava from totally destroying the village of Yaiza.

One of the unique things about Lanzarote’s volcanic landscape is that due to the dry climate, very little has changed in all those years since the eruptions took place, allowing us to see it as it was nearly 300 years ago.

At the visitor centre, water poured into a vent in the ground becomes a steaming geyser, demonstrating the impressive heat just meters below surface (between 400C and 600C). You can also enjoy local food cooked in the geothermal heat in the on site restaurant.

A narrated 30 minute coach trip winding along twisting, narrow roads between the magnificent craters is included in the entrance fee. It is also possible to take a short camel ride just outside the park.