Fuerteventura Road Trip to Beaches, Whales and Grottas
Blogpost with Photos here: jasmineandfrank.com/2016/08/05/reisebericht-fuerteventura-2016/
A beach holiday has always been on our wish list - and this year it worked out. After researching the most beautiful beaches of the world we came across the statement: "Fuerteventura is the Caribbean of Europe" - (at least political Europe, because the Canarian island is located off the west coast of Africa in the Atlantic). We hoped that the island can really keep this high promise. We want to make it short - the 🏊 beaches keep the promise.
There are a lot of beautiful and well-kept beaches right next to the hotel complexes as well as many other beaches that are a little more remote from where you can jump into the crystal clear water. In the water there is also quite a lot to see - colourful fish play in the shallow water and in many bays there are also small reefs where you can snorkel perfectly.
Fuerteventura Beach Tip Risco El Paso
One beach we can recommend is Risco El Paso. It's a Wind-Surfer beach but has a large area for swimmers which is guarded by the coast guard on jet skis. You can protect yourself wonderfully in the small niches from wind. Since the beach is very long, the people are also spread out wonderfully and it is therefore one of the quietest beaches we have visited.
Numerous boat trips promise a lot of fun but also animal sightings - the so frequent dolphins 🐬konnten we unfortunately do not see, but instead turtles 🐢 (in the wild and in the reception center), hammerhead sharks 🔨🐟 and various species of whales 🐳🐋👍
Explore Fuerteventura by car
It is advisable to book a rental car from home, as it's clearly cheaper (other travelers experience reports on the Internet are now obsolete, thanks to new comparison portals). And if you don't really want to spend 14 days at the hotel's own beach, or want to pay a lot of money for guided tours, a rental car is a must in order to reach the other beaches or maybe even try windsurfing, surfing, catamaran sailing, etc. There are also some natural attractions: Caves, landscapes and viewpoints - but don't rely completely on Google Maps - you may be led onto a road that is really only suitable for hardcore 4x4 fans and the right car. 😉
The legendary beach Cofete
We want to give a little tip about Cofete (the most southwestern place of the island): the beach next to Cofete is praised on Tripadvisor and Co. as the most beautiful of Fuerteventura ... and that's probably what it is - but - it is located on the southwest side of the island and is therefore fully exposed to the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, the highest mountains of the island are directly behind it and all the clouds, wind etc. gather there. This means that while on the other side one lies in the sun in Moro Jable and Jandia under a blue sky, on the south-west side it is grey in grey ...
Inhabitants of the Alps know the phenomenon as "Foehn". In two weeks stay we experienced only 2 days where we could recognize that the Cofete side probably has no clouds. So plan so that you can go there spontaneously. PS: A bus to Cofete is available 2 times in the morning and 2 times in the afternoon. But even if we didn't test it ourselves, we assume that you need a strong stomach. Therefore it is better to go back to the rental car or a Quad 😉
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