The Atlantic, unhurried
Edition · Fuerteventura
Dunes that run down to the water, the long coast of Jandía and the islet of Lobos: sand, wind and horizon.
Photo: Benjamín Núñez González · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped
Long beaches, inland villages and a great deal of space: Fuerteventura is the island of silence and wind. Told calmly.
Culture
A fishing village on the west coast and a short walk to caves open to the sea. Beneath it all, a lesson in geology: the ancient ocean floor, lifted into daylight.
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Most people cross the Corralejo dunes by car. The luxury is to park, walk in along a waymarked trail at sunrise or late in the afternoon, and have the sand to yourself.
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A slow day in the quietest corner of northern Fuerteventura: a crater at first light from Lajares, a swim in the El Cotillo lagoons at high tide and the last of the sun at the Tostón lighthouse.
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More than half of Fuerteventura's Biosphere Reserve is ocean. Sailing trips from Morro Jable, cetaceans with no guarantees and no chasing, and turtles returning to the sea: how to look at the island from the water, with respect.
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Fuerteventura has been a Starlight Reserve since 2015 and has renewed the certification until 2029. What the label means, what the Sicasumbre astronomical viewpoint is like and how to prepare a night under the stars: wind, warm layers and no moon.
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Two courses at Caleta de Fuste, minutes from the airport, and one in the south, near Morro Jable. What each is like, who it suits and how to combine them with where you stay.
Sections
Different ways of looking at this destination, all with judgement.
The Corralejo dunes, the islet of Lobos and Cofete, the beach that asks for a whole day.
View allMajorero cheese, gofio from the windmills and a wine nobody expects to find here.
View allLifestyle, property and interiors. Long winter stays and northern villages such as Lajares.
View allBetancuria, the first capital; Tindaya and its engraved footprints; and Unamuno's months of exile.
View allCar, bus and ferry, the dirt tracks worth thinking twice about, and when the wind drops.
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The welcome guide
Leave us your email and we'll send you the guide: the six beaches everyone wants to see, with how to get there and the hour at which they stop being full. After that, the occasional calm letter — only when it's genuinely worth it.
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