Journey to another planet - Lanzarote
Lanzarote is a Spanish island, the northernmost and easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 125 kilometres (78 miles) off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) from the Iberian Peninsula.
Lanzarote owes its landscape entirely to volcanic activity; the dry climate and lack of erosion means that the volcanic landscape looks very much as it did just after the eruptions. Lanzarote is known around the world as the ‘Island of Volcanoes’. The Timanfaya National Park is the volcanic region spanning about ¼ of the island and whilst there is no monumental peak such as Mount Teide in Tenerife, Timanfaya is a truly surreal and stunning volcanic zone.