The Northern End Of Fuerteventura, The Surfer's Paradise-00-6294

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Corralejo is a tourist resort situated at the northern end of Fuerteventura. It is considerably bigger than Caleta de Fuste and has a more touristy feel.

Corralejo Old Town

The initial percentage of the town is based around the old harbour, which was used by local fishermen. Here the small sheltered beach, Playa la Clavellina, provides safe bathing for locals and holidaymakers similar. Fishing from the harbour wall is a general pastime, and it's not ordinarily as busy as the photograph proposes. On this queer day there was a competitive swim from Lobos back to Corralejo, and people who had been visiting the tourist info office, in addition as relatives of those taking part crowded onto the wall for a good view.

Corralejo Marina

The further modern facility comprises of a marina for happiness craft and room for the ferry services to Lanzarote and Lobos, a small island that is a 15 minute ferry ride from Fuerteventura. There are respective trips purposed at those on holiday that run from the harbour, and bookings for these may be made at one of the booths dotted about the area.

Corralejo's Beaches ...
... and Dunes

A short distance south of the old port are more than one more extensively sandy beaches that have fine views of the Island of Lobos. Whereas the small beach by the old harbour in Corralejo seems to making use of the space, these bigger beaches are purposed at holidaymakers staying in the north of Fuerteventura, and have everything necessitated for a day at the beach on Fuerteventura.

The town is surrounded by sand dunes and miles of sandy beaches that form a nature reserve. The beaches amongst Punta de Tivas and the Tres Islas hotels, called Playa del Pozo, Playa del Medano and Playa de Viejo run in to one another and this sandy shore is most times called Flag Beach. These beaches are exposed to the wind and this makes these beaches idealistic places to pursue those activities that require a little more life to the water. Circular stone structures provide a windbreak for those that just want to take advantage of Fuerteventura's sunny climate.

Some of these beaches, even though it's actually one long beach, are used by naturists. The attitude to naturism on Fuerteventura is relaxed and as such there are no indicated naturist beaches. Naturists in general prefer to be on beaches that are away from the resort centres, so that they don't offend other bathers. The beach at Playa de Pozo appears being the most general with naturists.

Becoming to Corralejo

Transfer times from Fuerteventura airport to the holiday accommodation in Corralejo is about 4o minutes. You could also travel by bus, guagua, as they're known in Spanish. This would implicate taking a ten minute journeying into Puerto del Rosario on the number 3, then the number 6 bus to Corralejo. The journeying is quite pleasant, going through galore interesting villages. As you get close to Corralejo to your left you will see the Caderilla de Roja, which is one of the extinct volcanoes that invented these islands, and to the correct galore lovely sandy beaches that stretch up most of the coast to Corralejo. Whether or not you are staying in El Cotillo, you may catch the number 8 bus from Corralejo, or the number 7 from Puerto del Rosario.

Sport in and around Corralejo

Corralejo´s emplacement on Fuerteventura means that it's well positioned for galore sports activities. There are north and east facing beaches close by and this allows those who receive pleasure from surfing, windsurfing or kite boarding to move to spend their days in dissimilar locatings depending upon how the wind is affecting the waves or blowing in relevance to the shore.

Those that are into hiking or mountain biking have a choice of off road tracks and the distances travelled may be adjusted to suit the time available.

Adventurous tours

Beside trike tours, there are other possibilities including Buggy Tours and excursions in addition as quad bike tours, and all of these prove general with holidaymakers.
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