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From Playa Blanca, head to Museo Atlántico, the first underwater art museum in Europe, with sculptures made of concrete and serving as artificial reefs. It is also the third-largest museum in the world by the artist Jason de Caires Taylor. In fact, the first exhibition began in 2006 on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and the second began in 2009 near Cancun, Mexico.
Dive also north of Lanzarote in La Graciosa Natural Park, famous for its breathtaking underwater walls and exceptional visibility.

Veril de Playa Chica, Lanzarote's very popular dive spot, starts in a sandy area and goes up to large submerged cliffs down to 40m. Several different dives are possible. The rock is lined with colorful sponges, orange corals where nudibranchs and big groupers coexist. A small wreck stands out in the blue.
You reach the Cueva de las Gambas, a cave with a multitude of narwhal shrimps. Groupers, lying in wait in the dark, pounce on these easy prey as soon as they are lit by the divers' lamps. Europe has declared this cave a "special conservation site" within the framework of the "Nature 2000" network.

Veril de Fariones is a site with two facets: on the border of the abyss with passages of tuna, eagle rays, dolphins as well as an area of shallow rocks, covered with multicolored anemones, close to the pier of the Hotel Fariones. As it is a real aquarium, the place is suitable for snorkeling. Also, take your fins, mask and snorkel to Papagayo, a beach at the bottom of a pretty bay with turquoise water and white sand, to see schools of peacock-winged wrasses and parrotfish. Spider crabs hide in the nooks and crannies.
The Cathedral Cave is popular in Lanzarote because the island's most famous animal, a large grouper, has made its home here. A close examination of the walls of this cave with its incredible hidden life will fascinate macro enthusiasts. Along the drop-off, angel sharks (squatina squatina) maraud along the drop-off.

El Ascencor y Puerto Moro allows divers to travel into the bowels of the volcano as you pass through a lava tube as if you were in an elevator, with beautiful plays of light passing through the crevices.
A wildlife dive awaits you at Playa Flamingo, near the dikes. A very bright white sand bottom shelters marbled torpedo rays, angel sharks, and thorny rays that burrow there. Contemplate the large schools of fish including marbled sea bream, barracudas, bugs, and sardines.

Opposite the lighthouse, at Faro de Pechiguera, a pyramid-shaped shoal gushes out of the sand from a depth of 50 m to 20 m below the surface, drained by a strong current, with the passage of pelagic fish.
From Puerto del Carmen, go diving on the island of La Graciosa and especially on La Burrera in a landscape of labyrinths, arches, columns, faults, offering shelter for an abundant fauna and flora. The algae forests have been colonized by sea urchins diadems.

Explore a large rocky cirque at La Roncadera, resembling a large Roman amphitheater, with a beautiful field of red and yellow gorgonians on the steps, with labyrinths, trevallies, and damselflies.
An immense underwater rocky bar stretches out on a white sand bottom for a distance of one kilometer in Veril de las Agujas. It crosses the maritime canal between Lanzarote and La Graciosa. There are several dive sites here, such as El Veril de las Langostas South and North, which are real lobster lodges, and El Veril de las Anclas. You can observe stingrays, Spanish wrasses, groupers and parrots. Find here many old anchors that have been lost.

To finish your trip in Lanzarote, make a trip to the Marine Reserve in Montana Amarilla, in the Chinijo archipelago, to admire the "Yellow Mountain", an emblematic place in the Canary Islands. The color of the rock is due to the volcanic eruption when lava mixed with sea water. The incredible rocky architecture on the surface extends below the surface of the sea.
For your diving holiday in Lanzarote, equip yourself with thick 7mm wetsuits, a hood, and gloves, and most importantly take adjustable fins with booties to walk on the beaches and access the sites from the shore.

Others Activities

There are many nature-oriented activities to do on the island, such as visiting the market of Teguise, going hiking, discovering the country by mountain bike, or riding along the coast by paddle. There are some board sports such as surfing and kitesurfing as well as yoga to recharge your batteries.
The Timanfaya National Park, located in the south-west of the island, is home to the Montañas del Fuego, which is a testimony to volcanic activity with petrified lava flows, crevasses, and craters.

El Golfo is located on the west coast of Lanzarote, near the Timanfaya volcano. Stroll to the small green lake, Lago Verde, which is located in the old crater of the volcano. Stop at Los Hervideros because the sea has carved several caves in the porous lava coastline. Also, make a detour to the El Charco lagoon. Here salt is produced in the Salinas de Janubio.
Take a trip to the Geria, the valley where Malvasia wine is produced. Very nice landscape with the vines cultivated in the black earth.
Stop at the Bodegas, the tasting cellars, which follow one another along the road and visit the facilities of La Bodega La Geria.


Visit the Cactus Garden, designed by the artist César Manrique, which groups together hundreds of cactus species from the Canary Islands, Mexico, and Madagascar.
Contemplate the wonderful effects of light and color in the underground cave at the foot of the volcano Corona la Cueva de Los Verdes.
Visit the Jameos del Agua, open-air underground caves transformed into a work of art by Cesar Manrique.
Beautiful panorama of the island of La Graciosa to the north from Mirador del Río, from the top of the cliffs of the coast to the north of the island, at 479 m above sea level.

Lanzarote : Dive shops