Useful information about Lanzarote
All Those little details that reassure one before packing to travel, and also important information and tips that you may need while enjoying your stay in Lanzarote.
Before you come
Useful information to avoid surprises when you arrive in Lanzarote and thus enjoy your stay on the island to the fullest:
- Documentation: The only documentation that should be carried with you is your DNI or passport, when your country of origin is part of the European Union.</ li>
- Currency: The monetary unit is the EURO. Foreign currencies are easily exchanged. All over the island there are banks, ATMs and exchange offices. You can also pay with credit cards in almost all commercial establishments. The most common are Eurocard-Master Card, Visa, American Express and Dinners Club (the latter is not accepted in all establishments). Travelers checks are also accepted in hotels, restaurants and shops, but you must present your passport with the check.
- Medical assistance: It is advisable to take out travel insurance that includes medical assistance. In this way you will have You are free to go to your assigned doctor in case of any need.
- Luggage: With an average annual temperature of 22º and with practically 300 days of sunshine, it is advisable, in addition to beachwear and sunscreen, to bring comfortable and fresh clothing and a not too warm sweater for the evenings. If you want to go to more refined night clubs, discos or restaurants, make sure you bring a set of elegant clothes, since beach clothes and pants are not allowed.
- When to go?: Due to its climate, sunny and without rain, during almost the whole year, the vacation period can be enjoyed at any time. The high season is concentrated in the summer and in holiday periods such as Christmas or Easter.
- Time zone: Lanzarote, like the rest of the islands of the Canary archipelago, follows Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) throughout the year except between April and October, in which is changed and becomes GMT+1. The Canary Islands are one hour behind the Iberian Peninsula.
Accessibility
Lanzarote has an Accessible Tourism Guide whose main objective is to offer information on the accessibility of facilities to people who, due to different circumstances, have limited physical conditions or sensory, as well as to the entire population that demands greater quality and comfort in the facilities it uses.
If you need assistance at the airport, please notify your airline before you begin your journey. They will transmit your needs directly to the Lanzarote Airport.
Fun Facts
Lanzarote hides an infinity of curious data, some are surprising, others only satisfy our curiosity. The following 13 curious facts that you will read will not change your life, but you will surely remember them.
- Lanzarote, at 180 million years old, is the oldest of the Canary Islands and El Hierro the youngest at 750,000 thousand years old. os.
- Almost a third of the island is badlands, arid and dark volcanic lands. Lanzarote is the least mountainous island of the Canary archipelago. Although it has an abrupt relief in the north, as in the south it is the least mountainous. The highest peak of the island Peñas del Chache 670m.
- San Borondón is an island that appears and disappears. It was mentioned and described in the past by different sailors and characters, such as the parish priest of Alajeró, in La Gomera (1759). Almost all place it between the West - Southeast of La Palma and the West - Northwest of El Hierro. The rumor of this mysterious island undoubtedly came after the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands.
- Lanzarote was the first island colonized when an expedition, commanded by the Normans Juan de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle, at the service of Henry III of Castile, arrived to the island in 1402.
- Chinijo is not only called that; It comes from the archipelago, but it is also used to name small things, even children are called that.
- The haze is the dust that comes from the Saharan desert. Sometimes it gets very hot, even with plagues of locusts.
- On the islands the bus is called guagua. It is not known where the word comes from, it is believed that it could have been a voice imported by the Canarian emigration from Cuba. here the English term WAGON (truck, van or wagon) was used, the difficult pronunciation derived in the expression "bus".
- Majo or Maxos was the name given to the ancient inhabitants of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, although all the ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands are often mistakenly called Guanches</strong >, although in reality the Guanches were only the inhabitants of the island of Tenerife.
- The cinemain Lanzarote, many internationally successful films have been shot in whole or in part:
- Our Lady of the Volcanoes, patron saint of the Island. In the vicinity of the Timanfaya National Park is the hermitage of the Virgen de los Dolores, to which the islanders; They keep calling you from the Volcanoes. Tradition has it that in one of the terrible eruptions in which the lava threatened to bury the entire population, the inhabitants of the area resorted to this image and planted it in front of the great river. or lava that immediately stopped. Grateful, they built this hermitage for him.
- Los Jameitos, inside Jameos del Agua, between darkness and a ray of light, there is a small natural lagoon with transparent waters. An endemic species of the island lives there, Los Jameitos, tiny, albino blind crabs whose origin is unknown.
- In the restaurant of the Timanfaya National Park, el Diablo, you can eat grilled chicken with the fire of the volcano.
- King Hussein of Jordan possessed a summer residence that he later gave to King Don Juan Carlos, who in turn ceded it to his home. to National Heritage.
