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Gran Canaria is located at the heart of the Spanish Canary Islands, 210 km west of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean. The island is one of the few places on earth that can boast such a variety of landscapes within such a small area. It stretches just 40 km from north to south but offers dramatic volcanic mountains, tropical forests, desert areas and golden beaches.

There is no other place with such an eloquent diversity of little known landscape. There are deserts and sandy areas as well as mountains with thriving, tropical plant life. And the steep cliffs of El Puerto de la Nieves and de la Aldea together with the rough ravines of Tirajana, Moya and Azuaje alternate with lovely valleys where thousands of banana-trees grow and which - like the Arucas - smoothly come down in the direction of the sea. Gran Canaria has not in vain been called a continent in miniature, since the beginning by La Cumbre (a 2,000m peak) with its granite masses of El Roque Nublo, nature has provided for all kinds of landscape, where plants from Europe, Africa and America grow (the Tamadaba pine forests, Los Tilos - lime- trees -, the El Monte vineyards, the coffee plantations at Agaete, palm forests, banana-trees, almond-trees, sugar cane and tomato crops).

The south is well known for its desert sand dunes. In the centre you'll discover the snow- covered mountain peaks of Pozo de las Nieves and Los Pechos, both rising to nearly 2,000 metres. Well away from all the tourist spots of the south, there's the village of San Bartolome de Tirajana, hidden inside a volcanic crater and only accessed by narrow mountain streets.