CargandoCargandoA Gran Canaria la llaman continente en miniatura, y no exageran. En pocos kilómetros pasas de las dunas de Maspalomas a los pinares y los pueblos de cumbre, y Las Palmas es una ciudad de verdad, con la playa de Las Canteras en pleno casco urbano. Aquí el coche marca la diferencia entre ver la playa y ver la isla.
Gran Canaria in three daysA day for the capital, a day for the island's interior and a day for the south. The interior is the surprise: forty minutes from the beach you are at twelve hundred metres among pines, and that is what makes this island.3 days· 7 stops
Gran Canaria in five daysThe same unhurried, plus what almost nobody sees: the Cenobio de Valerón, three hundred caves hand-cut into a ravine, Artenara with its inhabited cave houses, and the Bandama caldera, a kilometre-wide crater you can walk down into.5 days· 13 stops
Gran Canaria in 7 days, the whole islandA week covers the four islands that fit inside one: the capital with Vegueta and Las Canteras, the highlands with Roque Nublo and Tejeda, the north with Artenara, the Cenobio de Valerón and the sea pools of Agaete, the ravines of Guayadeque and Las Vacas, and the southern dunes of Maspalomas. Little driving: nothing is more than an hour away.7 days· 13 stops
Barranco de las Vacas
Bandama caldera
Tejeda
Cenobio de Valerón
ArtenaraLas Canteras beachTeror
The Maspalomas dunes
Agaete and Puerto de las Nieves
Roque NubloVegueta, the old town of Las Palmas
The Guayadeque ravine
Puerto de Mogán💡The interior is measured in bends, not kilometres
On the map Tejeda is forty kilometres from Las Palmas and looks like half an hour; on the road it is a long hour of non-stop hairpins. Double whatever the sat-nav says for any drive through the middle of the island, and if someone in the group gets carsick, put them in the front.
💡North and south do not share the same weather
Gran Canaria is small but the two sides have different climates: the north often wakes up under cloud, the panza de burro, while the south is clear almost always. Half an hour in the car changes the whole day, so if you wake up to grey skies in Las Palmas do not cancel the beach: drive south.
¿Vas a Gran Canaria?
Guarda estos sitios, conviertelos en un viaje y encuentra con quien hacerlo.
Crear cuenta gratis