There are plenty of more unusual places to stay on the holiday island of Lanzarote. For anyone seeking to get away from the main resorts and the more mainstream selection of Lanzarote villas. There are certainly plenty of options encompassing Mongolian yak herder’s tents and eco friendly fincas in stunning countryside locations across the island.
Such is its popularity that Lanzarote attracts a lot of repeat visitors, who come back to the island year after year. . Increasingly many of these tourists seek out the more authentic side of the island away from the three main resorts of Puerto del Carmen, Playa Blanca and Costa Teguise.
The island also possesses plenty of eco-friendly credentials as an example across the island many of the apartments and villas on Lanzarote already use solar panels to produce heated water for their swimming pools. Whilst larger consumers of water, such as the island’s two golf courses, use recycled liquid to ensure that demand on the desalination system is kept to a minimum. Wind power is also popular, with several large turbines generating a proportion of the island’s electricity and smaller turbines used individually.
Wind turbines have been in use on Lanzarote since the mid 1990’s and contribute approximately thirty percent of the island’s power needs. These giant turbines make good use of the prevailing winds as they blow in from the Atlantic Ocean. And local residents often choose smaller turbines for domestic use for the same reason.
The north of Lanzarote offers the greatest scope for this type of holiday as this region is much less touched by tourism, whilst still offering some really interesting and different places to stay such as the eco friendly former farm Finca de Arrieta. Where guests can stay in a yurt – a type of tent once favoured by Mongolian yak herder’s! But with a modern and highly comfortable twist.
Not far from Arrieta is the Valley of 1000 Palms – easily one of the most breathtaking beauty spots on Lanzarote and a really stunning contrast to the rest of this arid and dry island.The scenery here has been described as amongst the most stunning in the Canaries – as countless palms sway gently in the wind, creating a real tropical oasis effect.
Tourists keen to stay within the valley itself can book themselves in for stay at the Finca La Crucita, where eight villas are named after different villages on the island. The Finca also boasts well planted gardens and a neat little swimming pool and chill out zone.
Many visitors to the island still prefer to stick with something more mainstream though and there is certainly no shortage of rental properties for them to choose from in the main resorts. Playa Blanca villas are especially popular with sun seekers as they are located right at the southern tip of the island, where the weather tends to be much hotter than elsewhere on Lanzarote. And Puerto del Carmen villas are always sought after as this is the largest and busiest resort on the island. Holiday makers have been flocking here ever since tourism first took off in the Canaries in the 1970´s.
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