SIGHTSEEING AND PLACES OF INTEREST

 

Market at Costa Calma

The famous street markets are held at Costa Calma on Sunday (10am to 2pm). These take place at the market field on your right as soon as you approach the first major roundabout when you enter the 'green zone' at Costa Calma. 

Oasis Park: La Lajita at Costa Calma

There are 200 species of animals at the zoo, oceanarium and parrot park. It is located near Costa Calma on the Jandia road in the south of the island.  The camel rides are excellent for the kids. There are also sea lions, alligators, zebra, giraffe, parrots and other exotic birds etc. The whole park is 1 000 000 m2. See information file at house for further details.  www.lajitaoasispark.com

Diving and Water sports at Costa Calma

Please go to http://www.fuerteventura-iaf.com/Costa Calma/surfing.htm on this site but a local firm with a good reputation is www.acuarius-jandia.de (Tel 928 54 70 41 / 60). There are several local agents in the several shop centres and at the beach itself.

Beaches at Costa Calma

Costa Calma has a lovely quiet beach and you are only a short drive down the road to the famous beaches of Sotavente where the world wind surfing championships are held each year.   http://www.fuerteventura-iaf.com/Costa Calma/Beaches.htm

 

Golf at Costa Calma

The Jandia Golf Club is only 10 minutes by car down the motorway at Moro Jable. A championship course that is due to open soon. Nine holes are already completed witha further nine due to be added by the summer of 2008.

Places you might wish to visit on the island of Fuerteventura that are easily reached by car:

Calete de Fuste is 40 mins by car.

Puerto del Rosario is 50 mins by car.

Corralejo is 75 mins by car.

Las Rotundas Shopping Complex at Puerto del Rosario

This is the largest indoor shopping complex in the Canary Islands. It is on four levels linked by escalators and has a range of designer shops. It is worth a visit one evening but can be busy at the weekend. It has a large underground car park. To get there, follow the road signs to Puerto del Rosario. It is basically a straight road. Drive until you come to the Sun Dial roundabout and you will see the complex on your right hand side. Turn right at the round about and you will see the access for the underground car park.

Golf at Calete de Fuste

The Fuerteventura Golf Club at Calete de Fuste. See www.fuerteventuragolfclub.com
This championship course hosted the Spanish Open on the PGA European Tour in 2004. You have a good view of this course from your master bedroom balcony. You can walk there in 15 minutes or drive there in under 5 mins. The course also has a golf academy with driving range, short game area, and putting green. It is open from 8am to about 7pm. You can hire everything you need. However, I have a set of clubs at the house for your use. You are welcome to use them, provide your own balls, glove, tees, shoes please. The clubs are Taylor Made woods and Powerbuilt irons. The green fees at this course are very modest, even in high season (winter months). Also, it is a very quite course. It is the quietest tour course that I have ever seen, and one of the cheapest. You can almost hit two balls on every hole if you like and you won’t get paired up with a stranger if you don’t want to. They are happy to allow solo play.

The Salinas de Antigua Golf Club at Calete de Fuste. See www.salinasgolf.com       
You can view this course from your master bedroom balcony at Calete de Fuste. It adjoins the Fuerteventura Golf Club. It opened in December 2006 and enjoys several water hazards, pecon laza, and each hole tends to be set in hollows giving a rolling type of landscape.

Corralejo Baku Water Park and Complex (Bowling etc)
This park is located near the start of the town and is easy to get to by car or bus. See www.bakufuerteventura.com. There are many organised tours that go here on regular basis. The following rides are found at the water park: Kamikaze; Rubber rings; Flumes; Jacuzzi; Small kids area etc. There are twelve different rides. Baku also hosts a golf driving range, a bowling alley, and the famous street market on Monday and Friday.

Corralejo.  Ferry to Lanzarote (from Correlejo harbour)
There are three ferry companies. The ferries all sail from Corallejo to Lanzarote. A great day trip. Timetables and prices for the ferries to Lanzarote are in your information file at the house. The Freddy Olsen Ferry (www.fredolsen.es) costs about 27 euros return and sails on the odd hours from Correlejo to Playa Blanca (from 7.45am to 7.00pm). The sail takes 12 minutes. It also has a free air conditioned coach which takes you via Arrecife airport up to Puerto Del Carmen in about 20 minutes. This means that you can spend a few hours in the popular resorts of Calete de Fuste and Corralejo (Fuerteventura) and Playa Blanca and Puerto Del Carmen (Lanzarote) in one day !

The Armas Ferry (www.navieraarmas.com) costs about 27 euros return and sails on even hours from Corelejo to Playa Blanca (8.00am to 8.00pm). The sail takes 20 minutes. [There is no bus to Puerto del Carmen. Having said this, you can take the local Arreicife bus near the end of the harbour on the right hand side (which should be waiting on the ferry)].

The Lanzarote express (0034 928 516 113 / 0034 629 731 293) is really a broad sail boat. It sails direct to Puerto del Carmen in Lanzarote from Correlejo. It hugs the shore of Lazarote and is good for dolphin spotting. It takes 60 minutes to sail to Puerto del Carmen. It leaves at 10.15am and returns at 16.45am. It costs 30 euros return.

At Correlejo harbour, you will also find short boat trips around the island of Los Lobos. This is small sanctuary island between Fuertventura and Lanzarote. You will also find big game fishing trips etc from this harbour.