Puerto Del Carmen is roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a short journey from the island’s capital in Arrecife. Puerto Del Carmen began as a small fishing village and the old harbor remains for visitors to explore and visit the many seafood restaurants. It now encompasses around six kilometers of beaches, including wide beach expanses and small coves.

There are many sub aqua schools in Puerto Del Carmen for both the learner, the experienced and those wanting to further their diving courses. Both PADI and BSAC are generally recognized and English is spoken at many diving schools. Most schools use the same small bay from which shore entries and harbor entries are available on a range of dives, including a reef with Pink Coral. Motoring further out are the Los Erizos wrecks in about 60 feet of water. A collection of boats sunk to create an artificial reef for divers to experience just outside of the harbor entrance.

If you fancy seeing the array of sea-life on offer, but don’t want to get wet, there is always the yellow submarine tour, which also visits the wrecks. Look out for the divers watching the submarines go by… There are also cycle hire stores in the main shopping area and a new golf course under construction on the out skirts of the town.

With Lanzarote’s strict planning permission there are no high rise apartments in the resort. Finding Puerto Del Carmen villas to rent is commonplace and there are an excellent choice of villas available.

Meanwhile, Costa Teguise is roughly centrally along the southern coast of Lanzarote, only around a twenty minute drive from the island’s capital in Arrecife. The island’s traditional capital of Teguise is only about ten minutes’ drive and is quiet, except during its weekly Sunday market, when many bargains and traditional items are to be discovered.

Costa Teguise did not start life as a traditional village, but is a well built purpose built tourist resort. As such it is well laid out with shopping areas mingled around the various beaches and hotels. As with all of Lanzarote’s resorts, there are no high rise building in sight and a large choice of apartments, villas and hotels.

Sea diving is possible from the handful of English speaking PADI and BSAC diving schools, but only really experience scuba dives are carried out as the local playa, Playa Jabillo, at only 5 metres deep is not sufficient for the majority of training. Most dive schools will run divers along to Puerto Del Carmen or for something totally different, along to the lava caves of Mala.

The main beach has wind surfing schools and a vast area of sandy beach with the usual amenities and a shopping centre behind it. Many of the hotels in the central area will have direct beach access. The only currently completed golf course on the whole of Lanzarote is located near to Costa Teguise.

Finding a villa in Costa Teguise is easy and there are an excellent choice of villas to choose from.

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