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Posted On: October 17th 2026, 10:14 pm
POV: You’ve landed on Mars… but you’re actually in Spain! 🔴🪐@nottsnomad 👩‍🚀

Would you believe this landscape is just a 4-hour flight from the UK? ✈️

📍 Calderón Hondo, Fuerteventura 🇪🇸

Forget the golden beaches and turquoise waters for a moment, because parts of Fuerteventura genuinely look like another planet!

With its rusty red volcanic rocks, enormous craters and barren landscapes stretching as far as the eye can see, exploring this Canary Island feels like stepping onto the surface of Mars. 🚀

One of the best places to experience it is Calderón Hondo, an extinct volcano near Lajares in the north of the island.

🥾 You can hike up to the rim of the volcano and look directly into its impressive crater, which is around 70 metres deep!

🌋 The surrounding landscape was shaped by volcanic activity thousands of years ago, creating one of the most surreal places I’ve visited in Europe.

And the best part? You don’t need to travel halfway around the world to experience it.

Would you add this to your Fuerteventura itinerary? 👇

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Comments (8)
dannyexplores a day ago

dannyexplores

How do I book

spain 2 days ago

spain

🥰🥰

nottsnomad 2 days ago
nottsnomad 2 days ago

nottsnomad

🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨

nottsnomad 2 days ago

nottsnomad

🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋

nottsnomad 2 days ago

nottsnomad

The landscape on the island is incredible 🌋 got lots more from Fuerteventura lined up 👀 FOLLOW @NottsNomad so you don’t miss them. It’s a 4 hour flight from the UK ✈️

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