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    La Palma Holidays

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    With holiday resorts playing second fiddle to a landscape of volcanoes, pine forests and vineyards, holidays to La Palma reveal a lesser-known side of the Canary Islands.

    The quiet Canary

    Of all the Canaries, La Palma sings the softest. Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura shout about what they’ve got, which means purring La Palma often gets overshadowed. But that’s where its appeal lies. This quiet island is far from Spain's madding crowd, and you won’t find any of the tell-tale marks of mass tourism here.

    Fuencaliente and Los Cancajos

    La Palma’s main holiday resorts are low-rise numbers. In Fuencaliente, on the island’s south coast, you’ll find a splash of whitewashed houses, surrounded by pine forests and vineyards. Los Cancajos, on the east coast, is probably the island’s most built-up resort. It’s attracted the lion’s share of development because it’s fronted by a black sand beach. But, even here, hotels don’t get much taller than 3 storeys. And, just like in Fuencaliente, the manmade is quarantined by wide-open countryside.

    National Parks and the Volcano Trail

    La Palma’s trump card is its scenery. In 1983 the entire island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. The Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente, in the centre of La Palma, is the island at its most unspoilt. This 46.9 square-kilometre nature reserve is a tapestry of pine forests, waterfalls, freshwater spring and walking trails. Elsewhere, the island is daubed with volcano-scapes. The volcano trail in the south will take you along volcanic rims and through gaping craters.

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    At a glance

    • Meander through the crooked streets of Santa Cruz de La Palma
    • Hike through Taburiente National Park
    • Relax on the black sand of Los Cancajos Beach

    Destinations in La Palma

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    • Puerto Naos

      With holidays to Puerto Naos, you get one of the best beaches on La Palma, laidback evenings and walks along a volcano-dotted trail.

    • Brena Baja

      Holidays to Brena Baja revolve around the great outdoors, and with the region's rolling hills and meadows, it's no surprise.

    • Fuencaliente

      With holidays to Fuencaliente you get a pretty Canarian island with a laid-back vibe, crowd-free beaches and knockout hikes across volcanoes.

    • Los Cancajos

      Holidays to Los Cancajos take you to one of La Palma's relaxed seaside towns. Authentic tavernas and volcanic sand beaches set the tone, and the capital Santa Cruz de La Palma's only 10 minutes' drive away.

    Top things to See and Do in La Palma

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    • Black-sand beaches

      Unlike the other Canaries, La Palma doesn’t have a lot of beaches. A lot of its coastline is characterised by banana plantations and steep cliff sides, and the beaches that do exist are of the black-sand variety. This isn’t to their discredit, though – lots of them have Blue Flags, which goes to show how highly rated they are.

    • The big beach

      Los Cancajos’ black sand beach is rated as the best on La Palma. Despite its position at the front of one of the island’s most popular holiday resorts, it’s pretty unspoilt. There aren’t any sunloungers on the sand, and you won’t find jet skis and banana boats whizzing about, either. In fact, the watersports on offer are entirely natural, amounting to a handful of great dive sites.

    • The secret beach

      Locals try to keep the Piscinas de la Fajana under wraps. You’ll find these sea water swimming pools in Barlovento, on La Palma’s north coast. They’re backed by a screen of rocky cliffs and they’re ideal if you want to swim in the sea but aren’t that confident in the water.

    • Bargain Buys

      When it comes to hand-rolled cigars, La Palma is up there with Cuba as a master of the craft. Tobacco farms cluster around Santa Cruz, Brena Baja and Brena Alta, and you can buy the finished product at the farmers’ markets in Villa de Mazo, half an hour’s drive from Los Cancajos. Stalls are set up on Saturdays and Sundays in Via de Enlace Doctor Amilcar Morera Bravo.

    • Mid-Range Buys

      Fuencaliente is hemmed in by vineyards, and with these vineyards come wineries. Sweet wines like malvasia, sabro and gual are the area’s speciality, but it also bottles up reds, whites and roses. The town’s largest winery is Bodegas Teneguia, on Calle Antonio Fuencaliente Hernandez Santos. You can buy bottles for as little as 10 euros and cases for around 60 euros.

    • Designer Buys

      The history of silk production on La Palma dates back to the 16th century. If you want to learn about the silk making process before you buy, head to the Silk Museum on Calle Manuel Tano in El Paso in the centre of the island. A hand-made tie will set you back around £100.

    • Laid-back evenings

      La Palma might not offer much in the way of karaoke and after-hours bars, but it does a mean line in sunsets. You’ll get some of the best views in the restaurants near Plaza Castilla in Tazacorte. Alternatively, if you’d rather make dinner the main event of the evening, make your way to Playa Los Cancajos or Carretera Antionio Paz y Paz in Fuencaliente. More often than not the restaurants here are family-run and serve authentic island cuisine.

    • Lively evenings

      Night owls are a rare species in La Palma, and most visitors are tucked up in bed by midnight. Santa Cruz is probably the liveliest place on the island – you’ll find a few quiet bars dotted along Avenida Maritima and Calle Alvarez Abreu. If you’re staying in Los Llanos, head to the Plaza de Espagna, where they hold regular live music concerts.

    • Queso Palmera

      Fresh bread from the baker and a glass of smoky red wine are the perfect partners to a plate of locally-made goats’ cheese. Island farmers smoke the cheese over almond wood or pine needles to give it its distinctive taste.

    • Escacho

      Gofio flour is a cornerstone ingredient in Palmero cooking and the recipe for escacho makes the most of it. It mixes the flour with mashed potatoes, peppers and spices to turn it into a savoury cake. It goes really well with a glass of oaky red wine.

    • Potage de trigo

      his dish was the brainchild of cooks in the north of La Palma. It’s a colourful stew made with sweet potatoes, carrots, corn and pork. What makes it different from other stews served on the island is the special ingredient, gofio flour, which gives it a thicker consistency.

    • Almondrado

      Almond trees are ten-a-penny in La Palma, so most traditional desserts have an almond element to them. Almondrado are little macaroon-style biscuits, which are made by baking a mixture of crushed almonds, eggs, sugar and lemon peel.

    • Malvasia

      This wine is known as the nectar of the gods. The Malvasia grapes are grown all over the island, especially around Fuencaliente. The wineries here use it to make roses, reds and white tipples, but they specialise in the sweet dessert variety.

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