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5 Best Scenic Drives in Fuerteventura (With Route Map and Driving Tips)

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Most visitors to Fuerteventura spend their entire holiday within walking distance of their resort. The beaches are excellent and the logic is understandable. But Fuerteventura is the second largest island in the Canary Islands and the landscape beyond the resort strip is extraordinary: volcanic mountains that have barely changed since the island formed from the […]

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5 best scenic drives in Ibiza - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island

5 Best Scenic Drives in Ibiza (With Route Map and Driving Tips)

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Most people come to Ibiza for the clubs. The island they discover by car is something else entirely: limestone cliffs dropping straight to the Mediterranean, pine forest switchbacks that smell of resin and salt air, bohemian village squares unchanged since the 1970s, flamingos on the salt flats at dawn and a mystical volcanic rock rising

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Car Hire in Menorca – The Essential Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Why Car Hire in Menorca Changes Everything Menorca is the quieter Balearic, the one that islanders and returning visitors prefer to keep that way. It lacks the celebrity nightlife of Ibiza and the sheer tourist infrastructure of Mallorca, and it is better for both. A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993, the island has more protected

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Car Hire in Lanzarote – The Essential Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Why Car Hire in Lanzarote Changes Everything The Canary Islands have always drawn visitors for warmth, beaches and the kind of light that makes everything look better. Lanzarote, though, is something else entirely. Shaped by the volcanic eruptions of the 1730s, it is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in Europe – a UNESCO Biosphere

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Car Hire in Gran Canaria – The Complete Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Why Car Hire in Gran Canaria Changes Everything Gran Canaria has a reputation built on sun, sand and the resort strip running from Maspalomas to Playa del Ingles. That reputation is accurate but incomplete. The island is also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with almost half its territory under protection, a dramatically varied interior of volcanic

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5 best scenic drives in Tenerife - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Tenerife (Best Road Trip Routes by Car)

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Most visitors to Tenerife spend their holiday between the southern resorts and a day trip to Mount Teide. Both are worthwhile. But the island has a driving network that reveals extraordinary landscapes within an hour of any resort: ancient laurel forests older than the ice age, a mountain village perched on a knife-edge ridge above

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5 best scenic drives in Gran Canaria - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Gran Canaria (With Route Map and Driving Tips)

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Most visitors to Gran Canaria spend their time along the southern coast between Maspalomas and Puerto Rico. A hire car and a morning heading inland reveals a completely different island: sharp volcanic peaks, ancient ravines, pine forests above the clouds and whitewashed mountain villages that have barely changed in centuries. This guide covers the 5

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5 best scenic drives in Lanzarote - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Lanzarote – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Lanzarote is unlike any other island in Europe. Formed by volcanic eruptions that devastated the landscape between 1730 and 1736, it has been shaped by fire in a way that no Mediterranean destination can match: black lava fields, volcanic craters, wine grown in pits scooped from ash, and a coastal palette of rust-red, black and

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5 best scenic drives in Mallorca - route map showing the Tramuntana road, Cap de Formentor, Sa Calobra, south coast and east coast drives

5 Best Scenic Drives in Mallorca – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands and one of the most rewarding in Europe to drive. Its roads range from the hairpin mountain passes of the UNESCO-listed Serra de Tramuntana to the straight coastal run of the south, and the 5 best scenic drives in Mallorca cover terrain as varied as any island

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5 best scenic drives in Menorca - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across this beautiful island

5 Best Scenic Drives in Menorca – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Menorca may be the smallest of the three main Balearic Islands, but its roads reward the driver more than either of its neighbours. The island crosses in under an hour, yet the five best scenic drives in Menorca take you through landscapes as varied as the reddish moonscape of the north coast, the pine-backed turquoise

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