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If you go into the laurel forest of Anaga Rural Park you will find this lookout point, which gives you a great panoramic view of the Vega Lagunera and in particular of the city of La Laguna, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the distance, high above, you will be able to delight yourself with the silhouette of El Teide. Highly recommended both for the views and the unforgettable beauty of the surroundings. Next to the lookout point there is a restaurant, visitor center and flea market.

Located in the south of Fuerteventura island, in Pájara, the Sicasumbre Lookout Point is an excellent place to observe the sky. With a parking area and information panels, it also has indications on the location of the star constellations, a sundial and a vertical clock. For the most experienced enthusiasts, the Sicasumbre Lookout Point has the necessary supports for visitors to install their own telescopes and cameras. Don’t forget warm clothes.

The Malpaís de La Arena Natural Monument is located in the center of the municipality of La Oliva. This beautiful Natural Monument arose approximately ten thousand years ago thanks to one of the last volcanic eruptions of the island of Fuerteventura. Since the origin of this gorgeous landscape of great beauty and strange shapes, it has been practically unchanged by human hands, and precisely because of this in Malpaís de La Arena you can find some of the best populations of tabaibas, tarabillas, gorse and lichens of the Canary archipelago. In Malpaís we can also see La Arena Volcano, which is 420 meters high and the highest point of this beautiful natural monument.

Los Volcanes Natural Park is located in the municipalities of Yaiza, Tías and Tinajo, though it is normally accessed through the latter; but it can also be entered from Yaiza. This Natural Park has an area of 10,158 hectares and offers a breathtaking landscape that has been the result of the last volcanic eruption of the island. It is a volcanic landscape with strange and interesting formations created by the solidification of lava. Vegetation in this area is very scarce, and is only present in the oldest lava solidification zones.

Los Silos is the perfect place to set a fairytale or legend. Surrounded by banana plantations, at the foot of the majestic Teno mountains and bathed in the strong swell of the Atlantic, lies this small farming village, unknown to many travellers. A place that still retains a flavour of authenticity, where mundane reality mixes with the legends and tales of today and the past. It is famous for the annual Los Silos International Storytelling Festival.

Two monolithic rocks planted in the middle of the ocean and in a good state of conservation that are only accessible by sea. Both the Roque de Tierra (or Roque de Dentro) and the Roque de Fuera, constantly defy the Atlantic waves with their majestic presence. Both formations constitute one of the most characteristic ecological systems of the Canary Islands, standing out for their great scientific, geological, geomorphological and landscape interest. The vertebrate fauna that inhabits these rocks is important, since several endemic species occur here, and some, such as the giant lizard of the Roque de Fuera (Gallotia galloti insulanagae), have their only known population here. Among the birds are populations of Bulwer's petrel (Bulweria bulwwerii), Madeira storm petrel (Oceanodroma castro) and Scopoli’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea). At the top of the Roque de Tierra there is a spectacular grove of dragon trees, with almost a hundred specimens.

Located in the southeastern region of Lanzarote, Los Ajaches is a large volcanic formation that occupies the entire south of the island, with a massif in the leeward zone and stony plains on the windward side. This area of important archaeological heritage, where we find caves, engravings and traces of ancient pastoralism, is located in the municipality of Yaiza. This area, the oldest on the island, is still subject to intense dismantling due to erosion, which over the last ten million years has carved out the ravines that this natural route crosses.

The Natural Monument of Las Playas sits in front one of the most surprising landscapes of El Hierro. The enormous rocky coastline has been created by a series of massive landslides. The terrain is nine kilometres long and more than a thousand metres high. It’s an eye-catching view that’s soothing. Far from cities and towns, this part of El Hierro is a great place for a quiet holiday.

At the top of the Joapira volcano, in La Frontera, there is a curious bell tower that rises 50 metres above the Church of Nuestra Señora de Candelaria. The bell was built inside a sacred hermitage. Its purpose was for chimes to be heard throughout the Golfo valley. At this location you can see contrasting colours. There are lime coloured walls and ochre edges and ceilings with the reddish mountains in the distance.

Icod el Alto is the furthest neighbourhood from the centre of the municipality, outside the natural region of the Orotava Valley in a flatland of the Tigaiga mountains. Its 3,625 inhabitants are scattered around the Parish Church and seven hamlets or “cuarteles”: El Lance, El Dornajo, Lomo Márquez, La Gallinera, El Mazapé, La Pared, and el Lomo Juan de la Guardia. There are many important historical buildings like the Casa de La Pared, a farm that played an important role in the 17th and 18th centuries in introducing crops such as potatoes, which were then brought to the other islands.