Free Guide to Looking At The Lanzarote Destinations Of Costa Teguise
Puerto Del Carmen is situated roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a short drive from the island’s capital and airport in Arrecife. Puerto Del Carmen started off life as a small fishing village and the old harbor remains for visitors to explore and visit the many seafood restaurants. It now encompasses around six kilometers of beaches, including wide beach expanses and small coves.
There are many diving schools in Puerto Del Carmen for both the learner, the experienced and those wanting to further their diving training. Both PADI and BSAC are generally accepted and English is spoken at many diving schools. Most schools utilize the same small bay from which shore entries and harbor entries are available on a range of dives, including a reef with Pink Coral. Motoring further out are the Los Erizos wrecks at a depth of about 20m. A collection of boats sunk to create an artificial reef for divers to visit just outside of the harbor entrance.
If you fancy seeing the variety of sea-life on offer, but don’t want to enter the water, there is always the yellow submarine tour, which also visits the wrecks. Watch out for the divers watching the submarines go by… There are also cycle hire stores in the main shops and a new golf course under construction on the out skirts of the town.
With Lanzarote’s strict planning permission there are no high rise hotels in the resort. Finding villas to rent in Puerto Del Carmen is commonplace and there are an excellent choice of villas available.
Meanwhile, Costa Teguise is situated roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a short journey from the island’s capital and airport in Arrecife. The island’s traditional capital of Teguise is only about 10 to 15 minutes’ drive and is quiet, except during its weekly Sunday market, when many bargains and traditional wares are to be discovered.
Costa Teguise is not a traditional village, but is a well built purpose built tourist resort. As such it is well laid out with shopping areas mingled around the various hotels and beaches. As with all of Lanzarote’s developments, there are no high rise building in sight and a large choice of villas, hotels and apartments.
Diving is possible from the couple of English speaking PADI and BSAC diving schools, but only really experience scuba dives are carried out as the local playa, Playa Jabillo, at only 5 metres deep is not sufficient for the majority of training. Most dive schools will run divers down to Puerto Del Carmen or for an unusual treat, along to the lava caves of Mala.
On the main beach there are wind surfing schools and a vast area of sandy beach with the usual amenities and a shopping centre behind it. A lot of the hotels in the central area also have direct beach access. There is the only currently completed golf course on the island near to Costa Teguise.
Finding villas Costa Teguise is easy and there are an excellent choice of villas to choose from.
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