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Fuerteventura - Welcome to the island of the sun!

If you want to spend a beach holiday in March, you should travel to the second largest Canary Island. Here everything is blooming in the best sunshine.

A popular pastime on Fuerteventura: kitesurfing
Photo: Promotur Turismo Canarias

My favorite island welcomes us with 22 degrees, beautiful sunshine and a fresh sea breeze. A warm welcome on Fuerteventura. In order to escape the damp, cold early spring, there is nothing better for us than to spend a few days on the second largest island of the Canaries. For now in March, it is here as off the coast of Africa as beautiful as ours actually only in summer. This time we live in the resort of Costa Calma, which is located in the southeast of Fuerteventura. If you love long walks on the beach, this is the place to be: the Costa Smeralda begins the 30-kilometer-long Playa Sotavento, which extends to the southern tip of the island. Also for windsurfers the east coast with its offshore wind is a true paradise. We sit comfortably on the beach and watch fascinated as the surfers in the surf their meter high air jumps. But if you want to swim here, you should be careful. Because the swell makes your feet a lot faster than you can imagine.

After a few days of relaxed beach vacation we take a trip to the north of the island. It goes to the natural park El Jable. This is a huge desert area with shifting dunes, which borders directly on the sea. As we get off to take a few steps, we feel like we're in the middle of the Sahara: tiny and a little lost. Now you need camels! They are on Fuerteventura but only in the south of the island: in the camel park at La Lajita. And there you can also ride on the animals. Back we take the path over the rough west coast. Instead of long sandy beaches, there are rocks and rugged cliffs. In the past you could marvel at the wreck of the cruise liner "American Star" at Pajara on the Playa de Garcey. But since last March, the sea has devoured the remnants.

At Ajuy we drive to the interior of the island to see the former capital Betancuria. The well-kept town is a listed building and is really worth seeing with its magnificent houses and noble palaces. Just like the historic village of Antigua, which is very close. Hungry we arrive at "Don Antonio" in the evening. The inn is located not far from Betancuria in Vega de Rio Palmas. Especially good are his lamb and kid dishes (each about 12 euros). The love of Fuerteventura goes through the stomach.

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