Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, feels slightly unreal the moment you arrive. The landscape is shaped by fire, yet softened by time. Black volcanic fields stretch across the ground, broken by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. The Canary Islands of Spain are best known among sun-starved ...

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“If you think the Canary Islands are paradise,” said the Connecticut public-utility executive who had retired to Gran Canaria (Grand Canary) to grow bananas, “you should see our local version of hell.

A photographic tour of those who eke out a life on the sunblasted island transformed by a volcano Photographs by Daniel Rolider; Text by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz Thirteen-year-old Pedro de Frutos ...

A popular island in the Canaries is launching a new campaign to outline the exact type of tourist it wants to attract. Lanzarote has declared it “doesn't want just any tourist” any longer. Led by the ...

Lanzarote has struck a deal with Ryanair to bring more British and Irish tourists to the island in a bid to boost tourism, months after its president said she wanted fewer British tourists and more ...

HOTELS in Costa Teguise have been forced to temporarily close ahead of the Easter holiday weekend. Resorts will be shutting down to deal with damage from the flood after the Spanish hotspot was hit by ...

My tour guide and I were in the middle of a lava field, with nothing but hills and heaps of solidified black lava flanking both sides of the highway. He pointed to an inconspicuous hole in the ground ...