Gran Canaria Canary Islands Holidays

The island of Gran Canaria in Canary Islands is recognized the "small continent". The reasons for this recognition are the islands various extreme landscapes with American, African, and European vegetation. The center of the island is a mountain range with a height of about 2,000 meters. This mountain range is divided by some fantastic canyons. Geographically speaking, this island is unique because its climatically zones and different landscapes that are close to one another such as tropical forests, desert land, and massive mountains. On the seaside of the island, wide beaches of sand are situated where tourists are lying for sunbathing as they view the snow-capped mountain peaks.

The island of Gran Canaria is abundant with many beautiful and fantastic beaches. One of these beaches is the Maspalomas with a length of 6 kilometers and width of 1 kilometer. It has fine white sands and intensely blue water. This beach is a paradise for sun worshippers not only during the sunny days but also during the cold European winter season. Near this beach are contemporary sports installations and hotel complexes, which are mostly found at the Faro de Maspalomas. Pasitoblanco is the most important sports harbor in the island.

Next to Maspalomas for perfect choice of beach on the island of Gran Canaria are the Playa del Ingles. Similar to the former, the latter is also equipped with modern installations and hotels. Tourists who are opting for more relaxing and peaceful atmosphere, and would want to recover from the stress of daily lives, the ideal beach to go in the island, is the San Agustin. The Playa de Patalavaca is another great beach ideal for sports fishing because of tits fine and gold sands. For modern urbanized hotels and apartments, the perfect beach to visit in the island is the Puerto Rico. The beach of Costa de Banaderos has attractive landscapes and romantic small bays. Other bizarre beaches in the island of high coast and picturesque of fishing village are the Galdar, Sardina del Mar, Playa de las Canteras, and Playa de las Nieves.

Tejeda is a great place for excursion in the island of Gran Canaria. It is labeled as the "petrified storm" by Unamuno, a Spanish writer. This place is enriching with impressive landscapes, mountain peaks, and green valleys that culture almonds. Bentayga and Roque Nubo are two of the mighty mountain peaks in the place.

For more exciting excursion experiences in the island of Gran Canaria, tourists can go for the Teror village, which is surrounded by mountain ranges that are truly breathtaking. This village is well known for its pilgrim ships and various nice colonial-style houses. An old-town in the island that has impressive high coast of small bays picturesque, some major banana plantations, and nice parks is the Arucas. This town is well taken cared of by the locals. At north coast of the island is the Santa Maria de Guia where you can find the Cenobio de Valeron, a group of caves covered with petrifying volcanic lava. Along the seaside of the island is the Agaete with an impressive canyon filled with banana, coffee, avocado, and papayas plantations.