Covering some 200km², Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is an area of outstanding volcanic beauty. There are still craters in the park where the heat is hot enough to vapourise water instantly, and a branch would combust with ease.

Coach and camel tours depart during the day, all year round, taking you across some areas of lunar-like landscape unchanged since the last eruptions, a truly apocalyptical vision. The land you cross is the result of hundreds of fire-spitting volcanoes over thousands of years. It was once possible to drive through the area, but that is no longer an option, as tyre tracks would remain for hundreds of years.

On the tour of the park, you will cross a sea of petrified lava and volcanic ashes and come into contact with geysers and active volcanic craters. Most people agree that the landscape is almost lunar, as it is so barren. Some of the craters of Montaña de Fuego (Mountain of Fire), are still active. At the surface temperatures reach 400^o Celsius, the restaurants in the park use some of the cooler craters to cook steaks.

This wanton destruction hundreds of years ago has left Lanzarote with a very unique landscape, Timanfaya National Park is one way of coming close to experiencing the destructive force of nature. It isn't all destruction though, from the molten lava and ashes came very fertile land - Lanzarote is the perfect place to taste wine from grapes grown in volcanic ashes.