Lanzarote in one day: Timanfaya, the lava caves and the north

The day starts early. The operator's own timetable for this route collects from Playa Blanca from 07:50 and from Puerto del Carmen, Arrecife, Playa Honda and Costa Teguise by about 08:40, then drives north, with one guide speaking English and Spanish. The first stops are the two great caves of the La Corona lava tube, which runs for more than seven kilometres to the sea. Cueva de los Verdes is a guided walk of about a kilometre through its galleries, lit by the artist Jesús Soto and open since 1964. Jameos del Agua, next door, is the first of César Manrique's centres, opened in 1968: a lake where blind white crabs live in the dark, and a white pool under palms where the tube's roof fell in.

Then the north of the island from above. The coach climbs to the cliffs at Mirador de Guinate for the view across the strait to La Graciosa, and down into Haría, the valley the operator calls the valley of the 1,000 palms, where there is free time for lunch at your own cost. In the afternoon it crosses La Geria, the wine country where vines grow behind low semicircular stone walls against the wind, for a taste of wine at a local producer, and enters Timanfaya National Park. There is a stop at the camel station, then Montañas del Fuego: on the Islote de Hilario, park staff pour water into the ground and it comes back as steam, and the park's own coach drives the Ruta de los Volcanes, about 14 kilometres and 35 minutes through the craters of the eruptions of 1730 to 1736. The last stop is the green lagoon of El Golfo, the Charco de los Clicos, and the operator puts the return at about 17:30.

The listing sells the same day three ways: without entries, from 51 euros, with two entries, or with all three. At the official prices of the Cabildo's tourist centres, read on 26 October 2026, an adult pays 30 euros for Montañas del Fuego, 17 for Jameos del Agua and 17 for Cueva de los Verdes: 64 euros, with children aged 7 to 12 at half price and under-7s free. Montañas del Fuego and the Cueva sell only online, for a set time slot; with the entries in the price, the operator holds the slots and the listing says you go in by a separate entrance. That is what the tour is worth paying for: three timed visits at opposite ends of the island, joined up in one day without a hire car.

On GetYourGuide on 26 October 2026 this tour was rated 4.7 from about 3,400 reviews, the highest rating and the most reviews of the four full-day island coach tours we compared. The Timanfaya Park, Jameos del Agua and Cueva de los Verdes tour was rated 4.5 from about 2,900 reviews, from 89 euros; the Timanfaya Park and Jameos del Agua tour, which visits Timanfaya, El Golfo and Jameos but not the Cueva, 4.5 from about 2,100, from 87 euros; and the Volcanos of Timanfaya and Caves tour, which includes lunch, 4.5 from about 590, from 95 euros. Compare them like for like: this tour's 51 euros is the price without entries, so pick the option with all three and read its price in the calendar. The operator also sells a three-entry day on this route on its own site, the Gran Tour Exclusivo, at 100 euros for adults, 96 if booked there, with nothing to pay when you book.

If you have a hire car, you can do the same sights yourself for the 64 euros of entries, at your own pace, as long as you book the timed slots online. If you want to walk on the lava rather than see it from the coach, book the guided Timanfaya hike; for Manrique's house and the Cactus Garden, the César Manrique day; to land on the island you see from the cliffs, the La Graciosa catamaran; and for a proper tasting rather than a glass on the way, El Grifo's wine tasting.