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The park's two halves in two days: the volcanic south with the lighthouse and the film-set beaches, and the mining north with the fishing village. You need a car to move between them, even if the last stretch to the big beaches is by shuttle.
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💡In summer you cannot drive to the best beaches
From mid-June to mid-September the tracks to Genoveses and Mónsul are closed to private cars. You park at the San José checkpoint and a shuttle bus runs every half hour, with a return ticket bought on the spot. The car park fills by mid-morning in August: either arrive before nine or come after five. On foot from San José it is about four kilometres to Genoveses, mostly flat but with no shade.
💡There is no shade anywhere here
This is the driest spot in Europe: under two hundred millimetres of rain a year and not a tree along the whole coast. Most beaches have no bar, no drinking water and no bins. Bring more water than you think you need, your own parasol and sunscreen, and avoid the middle of the day from June to September. Phone coverage fails in several coves, and at Playa de los Muertos there is no lifeguard and the seabed drops away a few metres from the shore.
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