National park · Spain · Canary Islands
Timanfaya National Park
Lanzarote's volcanic 'Fire Mountains', a landscape of red and black lava with a bus tour through the craters.
Paid entry about 2.5 h
For storytellers
Why Timanfaya National Park matters
Timanfaya is a lunar landscape on the island of Lanzarote, formed by volcanic eruptions in the eighteenth century. A bus tour winds through red craters and black lava fields. Park rangers demonstrate the heat of the earth just below the surface by pouring water into a hole, which erupts as steam.
Talking points
- The eruptions that shaped it began in the eighteenth century.
- Rangers show the heat below the surface with a water demonstration.
- Access is by guided bus route inside the park.
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