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The Charco Azul in La Palma offers visitors a different, unique way to enjoy the sea. Its popularity has grown following a recent makeover, in fact it was awarded an international prize in 2013 for its new services. Based in San Andrés y Sauces, one of the prettiest boroughs in the north of the island, it's a perfect setting to enjoy a day of sea and sun with the family, in stark contrast to the rich greenery of the nearby laurisilva, a prehistoric forest of great importance.

In the Garafía municipality, the picturesque village of El Tablado’s remaining crops are grown for on-farm consumption. The landscape here is dotted with terrace farming, offering corn, potato, and barley harvests. With its limited number of homes, the village has managed to survive as a haven for locals and visitors alike. It’s located between Barranco de Los Hombres and Facundo, two of the deepest canyons on the island.

Located in a municipality to the northwest of the island, this is the quintessential village of the almond blossom. It offers visitors beautiful, rugged canyons, impressive views, and a calming yet varied landscape dotted with enchanting examples of traditional rural architectur

As capital of the Garafía municipality, Santo Domingo de Garafía offers fertile land. With its ample pastures, it is perfect for livestock, especially cows and goats, which are used to produce a top-quality artisanal cheese. The Garafía Windmill is an example of the village’s commitment to the traditions of its inhabitants. These mills were once used to make gofio, a flour made from roasted grains. They also played a significant role as meeting points for people.

The terrain in the village of Tijarafe is very steep and rugged, with a slope that starts at the peak of the island and descends into the sea, broken up by multiple ravines. The economy of this hard-working village revolves around agriculture and livestock.

Officially inaugurated in April 2017, this artificial beach of black volcanic sand occupies the site where the historic beach of Caleta del Varadero once stood. The new beach is 1,200 metres long and 50 metres wide. Recent remodeling work has meant that the site is now open to the Atlantic Ocean, something that had been lost with the construction of the promenade in 1949.

Maroparque is a truly unique zoo. Situated on the slopes of a ravine in Breña Alta, in the east of La Palma, it is the only vertical zoo in the whole of the Canary Islands. Take a pleasant walk through the cool shade of the botanical garden. The walkway continues downwards with wooden bridges and cobbled paths and takes visitors through aviaries, where birds and parrots fly overhead and all around.

Photos simply cannot do justice to the spectacular sight of this eight-kilometre-wide cleft that reaches depths of up to one and a half kilometres, covered by dense Canarian pine woods, and criss-crossed with deep ravines: you just have to see it in person. The Caldera de Taburiente National Park in the centre of the island of La Palma is the number one attraction of the island known as “La Isla Bonita” (“The Beautiful Island”), a Unesco Biosphere Reserve. Here, nature guards a valuable treasure of geological and biological diversity.

The Roque de los Muchachos viewpoint is situated at the very top of La Palma, one of the best places in the world for astronomy. Laid out below is a breath-taking view of a giant volcanic crater 1,500 metres deep, covered in trees and with volcanic rocks in amazing formations. This area, declared a National Park, is an absolute must for anyone staying in La Palma. For those who suffer from vertigo it is best to prepare yourself beforehand for the magnitude of the visual spectacle.

Los Tilos Forest is an explosion of biodiversity and greenness that you will fall in love with on your first visit. A passive, peaceful jungle where mosses, silence and the smell of leaves abound. Los Tilos (or Los Tiles, its official name) is one of the few strongholds left in the world when it comes to laurisilva; a dense, verdant, primitive forest full of broad-leaved trees that dominated the planet millions of years ago. This is the reason why Los Tilos was declared a Biosphere Reserve by Unesco in 2002; a protection which nowadays encompasses the entire island of La Palma.