Lanzarote Adventures - Go Green In Lanzarote

A growing number of tourists are seeking out more usual places to stay on the popular holiday island of Lanzarote. As they seek to trade the main resorts and more conventional apartments and villas, hotels and apartments on offer. You'll be able to find lots of unique alternatives available such as eco friendly yurts and rural fincas in fantastic locations around the island.

Such is its popularity that Lanzarote attracts a lot of repeat visitors, who come back to the island year after year. . Often seeking to get away from the three main holiday resorts of Playa Blanca, Costa Teguise and Puerto del Carmen by seeking out alternatives in the countryside.

The north of the island is usually the best spot for this as it is less developed here - whilst still offering lots of unique accommodation options such as Finca de Arrieta, a former farm which now runs along ecologically friendly lines. And where tourists can book a stay in a yurt - the favoured accommodation of Mongolian yak herder's!

Not far from Arrieta is the Valley of 1000 Palms - easily one of the most breathtaking beauty spots on Lanzarote and a really stunning contrast to the rest of this arid and dry island.The scenery here has been described as amongst the most stunning in the Canaries - as countless palms sway gently in the wind, creating a real tropical oasis effect.

Tourists keen to stay within the valley itself can book themselves in for stay at the Finca La Crucita, where eight villas are named after different villages on the island. The Finca also boasts well planted gardens and a neat little swimming pool and chill out zone.

Many visitors to the island still prefer to stick with something more mainstream though and there is certainly no shortage of rental properties for them to choose from in the main resorts. Playa Blanca villas are always popular with serious sun worshippers as they are situated at the southern toe of the island where the weather tends to be at its hottest. And Puerto del Carmen villas are always sought after as this is the largest and busiest resort on the island. Holiday makers have been flocking here ever since tourism first took off in the Canaries in the 1970 and acute;s.

Wherever tourists choose to stay they will find that Lanzarote is in fact a surprisingly unspoiled holiday destination, in comparison with some other Spanish holiday destinations such as the Costas and Balearics.

This is thanks to strict local planning laws which restrict new developments to the height of a Canarian palm tree.