Lanzarote: the island of fire. Trip to the Canary islands holiday resort, Spain

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Return, after so many years, the Canary Islands.
Lanzarote, the island of Timanfaja, the mountain of fire, welcomes us with its mild climate, leaving the hot Italian summer of 2003. The colors are different and indescribable, a thousand shades of brown and black, this volcanic, scorched by fire, among the plants in the flower beds where there is green grass but the black lava. Beautiful tropical garden of the hotel (Hotel San Antonio, 10 km from Arrecife to Puerto del Carmen and 4) adjacent to the wide beach. Lanzarote is the Parco Nazionale del Timanfaja, excursion not to be missed in a region occupied entirely by volcanoes, up to climb the Mountain of Fuego, forbidden to park outside of the tracks, the tires would melt in the heat. To see then the Gulf waters formed in the crater of a volcano located near the sea, next to a beach of black lava, los Hervideros, rock formation where the sea reaches to the land, the area Geria with the cultivation of vines, plants from the ground protected by stone walls. Going north, the Valley of Thousand Palms, the white houses of Teguise, the ancient capital, and then Jameos de Agua, an architectural features desired by Cesar Manrique (almost everything there is to see the architectural or artificial dir you want to Lanzarote is his work) to make an impressive hole had been created within a cone of lava.
The rental car then we went to the beach of Papagayo, the most famous island, near Playa Blanca, where the sand is clear and fine. We visited the museum home of Manrique, built on the lava flow and the Jardin de Cactus, the sun beating on the black lava, but there are thousands of varieties of cacti and tropical plants to observe. To the north, from the Mirador del Rio, one sees the island of La Graciosa. On the northern side of the beach of Famara, wide at the foot of the mountain, with many waves.
Having visited all the Canary Islands, while appreciating all I can say that I think Lanzarote is the most complete and most amazing, because it is virtually "all of a nature park," Manrique architectural choices have formed without cement overstretch wildly.