Timanfaya National Park, Lanzarote
Lanzarote has a much more recent volcanic history than Tenerife - the cataclystic eruptions that covered most of the island in melted lava and volcanic ash took place between 1730 and 1736. Seven years of eruptions buried 11 villages and led the population on the island, which had previously been the Canary Garden.After the rashes ceased, the farmers returned and found innovative ways to cultivate parts of the lands covered by ash.The most dramatic of the volcanic landscapes, including an still active volcano, are now protected as the Timanfaya National Park, cataloged by UNESCO. It must be literally to believe: huge areas of lands not stated by solidified lava whirlpools, cracked in a more melted lava.To see the whole park, go to Islote by Hilario, at the tip of a volcanic cone, where park parking demonstrates the extraordinary heat just below your feet.The dried brush thrown in a depression bursts into the flame, and the water poured down on a pipe erupted back into a hot geyser.At a restaurant here, you can eat chickens that you watched in the heat from the volcano below.There are several volcanic wonders nearby - a crashed crater that form a golf beach, where you can gather semiprecious stones, large caves of volcanic tubes and red dunes of volcanic ash.