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The go-to Corsica travel guide travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.  Strap on your boots and discover Corsica on foot with the Sunflower Corsica travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Corsica guide is indispensable for hiking in Corsica or seeing Corsica by car. Noel Rochford, who has written several Landscapes guides, found the Corsicans to be the friendliest people he encountered throughout his travels. But the landscapes enchanted him as well: "No other Mediterranean island can boast such a wealth of natural beauty. Beaches to suit every taste: from long stretches of glaring white sand to pink rocky coves. Real mountains - climbers' terrain - that reach almost 3000m/9000ft. In these mountains you stumble upon a magnificent mixture of pine forests, beech woods, chestnut groves, and coppices of evergreen oaks. Streams bound down the mountainsides; rivers cascade through awe-inspiring gorges, leaving behind blue-green pools as clear as crystal. The pink granite hills and cliffs, normally conjured up only for an artist's canvas, are real indeed on Corsica."Whatever your age or ability we've got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable holiday in Corsica.Inside the Sunflower Corsica guide book you'll find:70 long and short walks for all ages and abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrainFree downloadable gps tracks - for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 10 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest information Town plans covering Ajaccio, Calvi and Bastia Whether you tour the island by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.

The go-to La Palma and El Hierro travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover La Palma and El Hierro on foot with the Sunflower La Palma and El Hierro travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower La Palma and El Hierro guide is indispensable for hiking in La Palma and El Hierro or seeing La Palma and El Hierro by car. El Hierro, the least-visited of all the Canaries, at first appears to be a dried-up, sprawling mountain of rock, rising straight from the sea, treeless and barren. But Noel reveals the island's hidden charms - as remarkable as any in the archipelago.In natural beauty, La Palma rivals all the other Canary Islands put together. Its immense, abyss-like crater, the Caldera de Taburiente, is considered to be the largest of its kind in the world. Outside the crater, high on the cloud-catching hillsides, 20 million-year-old laurel forests grow as dense as a jungle. In the southern half of the island, hills pitted with volcanic craters and mini-deserts of black lapilli speak of the island's volcanic past.Whether you tour El Hierro or La Palma by car or discover them on foot, Noel introduces you to the islands' best beauty spots.Inside the Sunflower La Palma and El Hierro guide book you'll find:48 long and short walks for all ages and abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000Free downloadable gps tracks - for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 4 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest information Whether you tour the islands by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around. An excellent book... The size, the balance between text and images and facts and maps... makes it perfect for getting out and about. (GCH, Amazon)Good guide for walkers. We were able to follow the walks on El Hierro and adapt them to our needs. (Shiela, Amazon)The book proved a really useful (no, essential) addition to our holiday and made a good holiday really special. (HOH, Shrewsbury)

The go-to Gran Canaria travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover Gran Canaria on foot with the Sunflower Gran Canaria travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Gran Canaria guide is indispensable for hiking in Gran Canaria or seeing Gran Canaria by car. For many years Gran Canaria was the most underrated of the Canary Islands among countryside enthusiasts, but with the restoration of the old trails (the so-called Kings Highways'), the island has been truly discovered by walkers. There's more than a month's walking in this guide to show you why!The island is often referred to as a 'continent in miniature'. If you travel across Gran Canaria by car or on foot you'll see why for yourself!From the hub of the cumbre, the island's great saddle, ravines are born and fan out seaward like spokes on a wheel, gouging enormous valleys in their wake. Between them there are magnificent barrancos (ravines). Each has its own little secret to share.In the Barranco de los Cernicalos there are knee-deep grasses and a chuckling stream; the Barranco de la Aldea hides an emerald-green reservoir; the Barranco de Güígüí opens out to an incomparable beach. These are but a few of the island's breathtaking ravines... and this is only the start of what you will find when out walking in Gran Canaria.The best months for walking on Gran Canaria are October to June (for the wild flowers, foliage and freshness in the air) but, increasingly, hikers are exploring all the Canary Islands on foot in summer as well.Inside the Sunflower Gran Canaria guide book you'll find:60 long and short walks - more than a month's walking1:50,000 topo maps, including all the latest officially waymarked trails6 car tours - highlighting access to all the walks en routeFold-out touring map - with walk locations - ideal for planningPlans - of Las Palmas, Maspalomas, Playa del Inglés12 picnic suggestions - short walks and leg stretchersTimetables for local transportOnline update service - the latest news available to the publisherThis guide is part of the Landscapes Series, with 50 destinations - dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times and chosen by readers of Which?as one of the four top travel guide series (from a field of 18).A great little guide book to get you off into the interior of this beautiful island. Each walk is concisely and accurately described. (Mike, Amazon)Dear Noel, Thank you for your wonderful book on Gran Canaria. I'm in my third year of teaching in Las Palmas, and over the last 18 months have found your book a godsend, as it's enabled me on numerous occasions to traipse around the cumbre. PS: This is the obvious one: I've never felt moved to write to a writer before! (SL, Las Palmas)Still the best [hiking guide for Gran Canaria]. I've gradually assembled the alternatives (Rambling Roger, Rother and local publications), but keep returning to the Sunflower guide. (TC, Amazon)Whatever your age or ability, whether you tour the island on foot or by car, we've got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable Gran Canaria holiday. We look forward to showing you around.

The go-to Lanzarote travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover Lanzarote on foot with the Sunflower Lanzarote travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Lanzarote guide is indispensable for hiking in Lanzarote or seeing Lanzarote by car. Fascinating Lanzarote is truly extraordinary. Its fate was decided some two and one-half centuries ago, when the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history took place, leaving a strange and alluring countryside in its wake  a landscape littered with volcanoes and dark streams of jagged lava.This is the backdrop to nearly every scene on the island, and intriguing sights abound  none more so than the Fire Mountains .As for hiking in Lanzarote, there is no better place in the Canaries for just strolling; trekkers will be in their element here. Each of the walks in this book takes you to a different corner of the island and shows you a scenically different outlook. But if walking is not your favourite pastime, then do explore Lanzarote by car.Whatever your age or ability we ve got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable holiday in Lanzarote.Inside the Sunflower Lanzarote guide book you ll find:68 long and short walks for all ages and abilities  - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000Free downloadable gps tracks -  for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 3 car tours and fold-out touring map -  for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots -  enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport  - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest information Includes plans of Arrecife, Puerto del Carmen, Playa Blanca and Corralejo (Fuerteventura)Whether you tour the region by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.

The go-to walking guide for discovering the best walks on the Canary Islands.Strap on your boots and discover the Canary Islands on foot with the Sunflower Canary Islands Walks travel guide. The Sunflower Canary Islands Walks guide is indispensable for walking and hiking on all of the Canary Islands – Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. This handy, pocket-sized full-colour guide describes walks on each of the main islands and all are illustrated with photographs and large-scale topographical maps.Sunflower is the renowned publisher of the 'Landscapes' guides and have been dubbed the 'blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times but, unlike the 'Landscapes' series, this guide focuses on the walks - the most popular feature of Sunflower guides. In addition to the walks we include detailed information on inter-island travel by boat and plane for 'island hopping' so you can walk from island to island. Whatever your age or ability we’ve got some glorious walks to ensure you have a memorable holiday on the Canary Islands. Inside the Sunflower guide book you’ll find:7 long and short walks on each of the islands - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000Free downloadable gps tracks - for the techiesSatnav coordinates to the start of each walk for motoristsDetails of inter-island travel by boat and plane for 'island hopping'Stories and snippets - for each walk, a panel about island culture, flora, fauna, history, or legendsTimetables for buses and boats - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayFree, online update service for the latest information - includes specific route-change informationCovers all the islands - Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El HierroWelcome to the Canary Islands. We look forward to showing you around.

The go-to Southern Tenerife and La Gomera travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.  Discover La Gomera and Southern Tenerife on foot with the Sunflower Southern Tenerife and La Gomera travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. This new 9th edition of Southern Tenerife and La Gomera, indispensable for hiking and seeing the islands by car, has been carefully revised on the ground just prior to publication; for instance, it includes a map of the devastating fire damage on the cumbre dorsal in Tenerife. We are pleased to have the collaboration of Jan Kostura on this new edition. He was on Tenerife during the fires and on Gomera subsequently, and he guides on both islands a couple of times a year. Thanks to him the Guergues walk, which was closed to walkers illegally, has been replaced by a new but similar route further north. The book is for those staying on La Gomera or in the south of Tenerife within easy reach of the Gomera ferry. Since the two islands are just a 35-minute ferry ride apart, the book covers walks and tours on both. There are car tours with picnic suggestions ranging all over both islands, with pull-out touring maps and plans for the larger conurbations.Walks are described throughout the whole of La Gomera, while for Tenerife there are walks in the south and west. All walks are illustrated with newly drawn 1:50,000 topo maps based on OpenStreet mapping. GPS tracks are available for all the walks, and there are satnav coordinates to the starting points. All ‘official’ signposted and waymarked government trails have been highlighted and numbered on the walking maps – a real plus: if a walker comes across a signpost for a route not fully described in Noel’s text, it can still be used as a short- (or long-!)cut. (Note: those going to Tenerife for a long walking holiday, who will be based in the south, should ideally have this book and Landscapes of Tenerife.)Area covered: The book is divided into two parts. The major emphasis is on exploring the whole of La Gomera by car or on foot. But the Tenerife section of the book is also packed with suggestions: there are tours (from Playa de las Américas/Los Cristianos) covering the whole of Tenerife by car, as well as the best walking in Tenerife’s south and west.Whatever your age or ability we’ve got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable holiday in Gomera and southern Tenerife.Inside the Sunflower Southern Tenerife and La Gomera guide book you’ll find:70 long and short walks for all ages and abilities – each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps – give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrainFree downloadable gps tracks – for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 6 car tours and fold-out touring map – for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots – enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport – ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest informationPlans of San Sebastián (La Gomera), Playa de las Américas, Los Cristianos (Tenerife) are also includedWhether you tour La Gomera and Southern Tenerife by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.

Pocket-sized, full-colour guide to Corsica. Ideal for an active short break.Corsica Sunflower Walk and Eat pocket guide is designed to add another dimension to your walking holiday. It’s ideal if you want an easy stroll or a longer walk and is also suitable if you just want recommendations for things to do in Corsica and restaurants in Corsica.In Corsica Sunflower Walk and Eat guide you’ll find:Detailed, easy-to-follow descriptions of fairly straightforward walks with large-scale mapsExcursion on the world-famous Trinichellu, Corsica's narrow-gauge railwayRecommended restaurants en route serving local dishes with sample menus includedEssential holiday information including planning your trip, logistics on arrival, local markets and specialities, glossary of local food terms and a restaurant mini-vocabularyAdvice on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerancesStreet maps of Ajaccio and BastiaAdditional recommendations included - information on Corsican wines and locally produced foodWhether you fly out for a weekend, week or a fortnight, with this book you’ll have in your hand enough walks, excursions, restaurants and recipes to last throughout ― so you can choose the most appealing. For each suggested restaurant there is a photograph of the décor and one of their dishes, plus sample menu, price guide, opening times and a recipe for one of their specialities. All recipes have been tried, tested and enjoyed by the authors so we think you’ll enjoy them too!‘Excellent! Just as described!‘ Bookworm