FUERTEVENTURA · CANARY ISLANDS
Wind, water, 152 km of beach.
Surf and kitesurf where the Alisios meet the Atlantic. Day-trip to Lobos Island, ferry to Lanzarote, drive out to Cofete on the wild south coast.
The island, off the resort strip
The three days that define the island.
Most visitors stay inside the resort grid: beach, pool, dinner. The island opens up when you step outside it. Ferry across to an empty nature reserve. Drive a dirt road to a fourteen-kilometre wild beach. Cross the Sahara-blown dune system to a black-lava interior. Each is a day in itself, and the rest of a Fuerteventura trip works better around them.
Across the strait
Lobos: the empty island
Two kilometres off Corralejo there is a 4.5 square kilometre nature reserve with one extinct volcano, two lighthouses, no roads and nobody living on it. The ferry takes eight minutes. Most visitors miss it because they assume an island that close can’t still be empty.
- 1 Corralejo: Return Ferry Ticket to Lobos Island Fuerteventura
- 2 Fuerteventura: Lobos Island Round-Trip Speedboat Ticket
- 3 Corralejo: Lobos Island Catamaran Tour with Drinks & Snorkel
The road-less coast
Cofete and the wild south
Fourteen kilometres of unbroken Atlantic sand on the far side of the Jandía mountains. The only way in is a 4x4 dirt track over the spine of the peninsula. At the top of the beach: the Villa Winter, a 1940s German house no one has fully explained. You leave the rest of the island behind.
- 1 Fuerteventura: Cofete Beach Jeep Safari
- 2 Fuerteventura: Cofete Beach and “Villa Winter” Tour
- 3 Kingdom Jandia: Cofete Beach & Roque Del Moro
Where the dunes begin
Sahara-blown sand
The white dunes north of Corralejo are blown across from the Sahara, not eroded from local rock. A buggy or 4x4 safari runs from the resort straight into volcanic black gravel, white sand and the calderas in between. Two colours, one morning.
- 1 Fuerteventura: Jandía Natural Park & The Puertito Buggy Tour
- 2 Corralejo: Buggy Safari Tour
- 3 Fuerteventura: Dune Buggy Tour in Northern Fuerteventura
The day everyone books
If you only do one thing on the island.
When the question is “what should I do tomorrow,” this is the trip that comes up first in every Fuerteventura traveller’s itinerary.
Traveller favourites
Fuerteventura’s Most Popular Tours
Lobos Island ferries, dune buggies, catamaran cruises, dolphin trips, Cofete jeep safaris. The half-dozen tours most visitors book.
By place
Pick a stretch of Fuerteventura.
Corralejo for the dunes and the ferries. Lobos for the empty walk. Jandía for the long-beach south. Cofete for the road-less day. Caleta de Fuste for a centre-east base. Costa Calma for the kitesurf.
By activity
Or pick how the day should feel.
Catamaran lunches, buggy mornings, volcano hikes, dolphin trips before lunch, surf in the afternoon, stargazing once the sun drops.
Sails up
Long lunches, swim stops, dolphins if the day cooperates.
Catamaran days run from every south-coast harbour. Slower than a speedboat, but you eat lunch on deck and the captain stops where the dolphins are. Three boats that get the lunch + swim-stop + dolphin combination right.
Deep water sits right offshore
Dolphins and pilot whales.
The seabed drops off fast on the south coast, so boats reach the deep-water feeding grounds inside an hour. Pilot whales are resident, bottlenose dolphins are seasonal. Start with whichever of these three sails from your nearest harbour.
Where the Atlantic lands
First-day surf lessons.
El Cotillo on the north coast, the dunes south of Corralejo, the Sotavento break. Mellow whitewater for first-timers, reef breaks ten minutes away once you’re standing up. Three schools that send absolute beginners home riding.
Off the asphalt
The volcanic interior.
Once you leave the coast road, Fuerteventura is craters, calderas and old goat tracks. Volcano hikes up Calderón Hondo, e-bike loops through Lajares, walks across the Tindaya plain. The other half of the island, on foot or two wheels.
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