A
wild, unkempt golden desert island of sunshine and sand,  Fuerteventura
looks like a fragment of the Sahara. The island is almost uninhabited.
Visitors exploring it find only light, peace, rocks of red and yellow
and black, and wide open spaces. The sands have indeed blown here from
the Sahara, and even the name Fuerteventura means 'strong winds'. Even
so, eastern Fuerteventura is sheltered, though these coasts are famous
for their windsurfing.  In
the interior and west, higher cones and ridges of darker rocks and vivid
colours show the island's volcanic origin, though there hasn't been
a murmur from these eroded volcanoes for thousands of years. Overall
there's a sense that nothing at all has changed here in a long time.
 Fuerteventura,
the island with the oldest history, has the longest beaches of all the
archipelago, of wonderful fine sand. Only a narrow channel separates
Fuerteventura from the African continent. It is a paradise equally for
spending holidays at the beach as for fishing. There are great beaches
even very close to the islands capital, Puerto Rosario.
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