When picturing volcanic landscape, you're likely to conjure up images of ashen scenery, grey rubble and rocky terrain. Lanzarote, known for its black lava fields, red craters and Mars-like atmosphere, ...
It’s just an hour past sunrise when I reach the rim of Caldera Blanca, a steep-sided hulk of igneous rock on the western flank of Lanzarote. The sun casts a reddish wash over the land. Up here — some ...
With its swathes of sandy beaches, stunning volcanic landscape and year-round sunshine, Lanzarote has long been a popular holiday location. But away from the bubbling tourist resorts, the most ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The Canary Islands of Spain are best known among sun-starved ...
Films and music videos have been filmed on the island's dramatic landscape WITH a palette of blacks, browns and greens, Lanzarote’s dramatic landscapes can make you feel like you are trapped in a ...
Its landscape is so sparse and black that it is compared to a lunar landscape and is said to be what the earth probably looked like when it was first formed. Timanfaya came to be due to a series of ...
Henry Myhill was the author of an early English-language travel guide named simply The Canary Islands. It is a handsome hardback, published in 1970 at a price of two guineas (£2.10). The year before ...
A sea of gnarled black lava spills in through the window of a white cubic house on the island of Lanzarote, tumbling in contorted waves on to the polished concrete floor. A pair of chubby cacti cling ...
Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s impact, including lava-sand beaches, caldera hiking trails and a ...