Cofete beach and Villa Winter in a small group

Cofete is the beach on postcards of Fuerteventura that most visitors never reach. It lies on the far side of the Jandía mountains, on the open Atlantic coast, and the only way in by road is a gravel track from Morro Jable that climbs over the ridge and drops down the other side. The whole western shore is inside the Jandía Natural Park, protected since the Canary Islands' natural spaces law of 1987, and the hamlet of Cofete is one of only two settlements the law allows inside it.

This tour does the driving for you. A guide collects you from your hotel in a minibus and heads west from Jandía. The listing's stops are a surprise stop on the way, the Mirador de Cofete, where the track crests the ridge and the beach appears below, the Villa Winter and the beach itself, with a walk through the few houses of Cofete village. The operator says the road is closed to the tour in bad weather. It takes about four hours, hotel to hotel.

The Villa Winter is the story the tour is named for. It was built for Gustav Winter, a German engineer born in the Black Forest in 1893, who leased the Jandía peninsula in 1937. Legend has it as a wartime base for German submarines; the building records, invoices and diaries gathered for a 2025 book by his son, reported by elDiario.es, put the first stone in 1946, after the war, and no evidence of a submarine base has been found. The house is still lived in, and its resident shows visitors a few of its rooms for a small fee.

Then the beach: more than 12 kilometres of pale sand under mountains that rise straight out of the dunes, with a small islet offshore and big Atlantic surf. Guests come for the view, the space and the photographs. It is a place to walk and look; the sea here is rough, and the tour is about the scenery, not a swim.

It was rated 4.8 from about 2,000 reviews on GetYourGuide on 26 October 2026, with the guides scored 4.9, transport 4.8 and value 4.7, and it was the cheaper of the two big sellers to Cofete, from 57 euros. The other, the Cofete Beach Jeep Safari, was rated 4.5 from about 2,700 reviews at 65 euros for three hours in a shared 4x4. A newer 4x4 safari that adds the Punta de Jandía lighthouse and Puertito de la Cruz runs five hours from 69 euros, with only about 40 reviews and a 4.3 rating. This one is the higher rated and the cheaper, and it adds the guided visit to the Villa Winter.

It suits the south: pickup is from your hotel, and from Morro Jable, Jandía or Esquinzo the drive to the villa is 67 to 78 minutes. From Corralejo it is close to three hours each way, so northern stays have two better options: Barceló Experiences sells a Cofete and Villa Winter minibus tour with pickup at Barceló Corralejo Sands from 87 euros, with free time in Morro Jable, or book "The island in a day" instead, which covers the centre and the west coast without the long drive south. Most hire-car contracts do not cover gravel tracks like this one, so check yours before driving it; on the tour, the driver has the road and you have the view.