Lonely Planet Canary Islands

by Miles Roddis

Book Overview

This guide book covers all seven Canary Islands and provides information on how to hop from one to the other. It covers activities from surfing to cycling, provides details of the fiesta and ferias... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864503106
• ISBN13: 9781864503104
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

vacation in Tenerife

This turist guide was very helpful to us on our 7 days vacation in Tenerife.

Won't steer you wrong

Lonely Planet guides tend to be aimed at somewhat younger and more active travelers, with lots of discussion of sport and nightlife. That's not really us any more! But they also suit those who travel on a budget, and that IS us, so we keep using them. We took this one with us to Las Palmas and stayed in their recommended hotel. It wasn't luxurious by any means, but the location was nearly ideal. It was also practical, comfortable, friendly, and cheap. LP has come through for us now at least twice (that I can recall) on lodging recommendations. This guide supplies useful information, it's mostly up to date, and the cost is reasonable. One can't ask for much more than that. Recommended.

Excellent

This book was extremely valuable during our recent stay on the island of Tenerife, just outside of Puerto de la Cruz. I would have liked to see more photographs but otherwise and excellent book and well worth the price.

Very helpful

this book has been very helpful to me with allot of good recomendations for hotels , restaurants and things to do on all the islands seperately . As with most Lonely Planet books they are presice and honest . The only thing i would have hoped for , was a bit more pictures , but never the less i was very pleased with this .

The Best Guide to the Islands, by fermed

Damien Simonis wrote the first edition of the Lonely Planet's gide to the Canaries, and an excellent companion to the islands it was; now (May, 2001) Lonely Planet has issued the second edition of this work, and I am delighted to say that it is just as good (but more up to date) than the first version. Simonis was joined by Miles Roddis to prepare the current book, which follows essentially the same plan as the first guide, and which conserves intact much of the original writing about the islands. The current version displays and entirely new set of photographs by Simonis, who seems to have improved his camera work in the intervening years since he first published the guide.The book is amazingly fruitful for its relative compact size and number of pages (271): it provides brief but essential information about the history of the islands, its dogs, its Canary birds, people, plants, transportation, medical services, its gay life, the island sports, and the means of getting there. It accurately describes each of the seven islands, and managest to convey the major and the subtle differences between them -- and those differences can be huge: from the dry Saharan landscapes of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, to the verdant La Palma, to the scraggly beauty of Hierro. The Pico de Teide, on the island of Tenerife, is the 3rd largest volcano on earth (after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, in Hawaii)and rises from the sea to over 12 thousand feet. Its peak is covered with snow most of the year, but at sea level the islands have superb weather. For those about to visit the Canaries, a Lonely Planet guide to them is essential. I don't think it is necessary to buy the second edition if one already owns the first: there are no dramatic changes between the books, and with a little flexibility the traveler will find the first edition just as useful as the second one. The travel tips are pricesless in both books and they will surely enhance the pleasure of visiting this strange and beautiful corner of the world. Don't leave without a copy.