Jandia Travel Guide: Travel and tourist information, things to do and see in Jandia

Jandia is a lovely resort located in the very south of Fuerteventura. This fabulous resort has many shops, bars and restaurants. Amazing beaches, boat trips, water sports and diving!

Jandia peninsula is a nature reserve separated from the rest of the island and bordered almost completely by vast beaches of white sand. To the west, the beaches of Barlovento, somewhat dangerous for swimming, remain almost wild. To the east, a large sandy fringe of some twelve and a half miles (20km) in length and over one kilometres wide in some areas, this is the site of two tourist resorts: Costa Calma, near the unequaled Playa de Sotavento, and Morro Jable, which is built around the port where the jet-foil departs for the island of Gran Canaria.

Locality:

Jandia is on the coast, towards the south tip of the island, 39 mls SW of Caleta de Fuste, 47 mls SW of Puerto del Rosario. 44 mls SW of the airport). It is on a spine of dry hills running towards the narrow S extremity of the island, separated from the 20-ml-long beach by sand dunes.

The beaches are just unbelievable some of the largest on the island and breathtaking with the white sand stretching for miles (some as far as 35km) they truly look like a beach on a paradise island!

There is something for all watersport enthusiast, everything from jet skiing, surfing, diving, sailing and windsurfing - the windsurfing championship have been held on one of the beaches in Jandia.

The nightlife can be what you want it to be in Jandia it can be as lively or as quiet as you want. You can party the night away or it can be sophisticated evening where you can relax in a lovely restaurant or bar sitting under the stars with a drink and watch the world go by until the early hours or entertaining with many bars providing live music, cabaret and stand ups! This partying takes place around the Commercial centres in the resort, where there is a huge variety of bars and restaurants in the centre you really can have a great night out if you like the kind of tourist nightlife that includes karaoke bars, cheesy entertainment and live music! For the more sophisticated evening you will find lots of lovely restaurants and bars along the promenade, harbour and seafront where some will have entertainment of some kind or some use the amazing scenery as there entertainment!

You will find a real mixture of places to eat out from traditional Canarian food and Tapas, a few English places, seafood, steak houses, Italian, Chinese and lots of German bars and restaurants. Alternatively the majority of the main hotels in the resort have brilliant restaurants and a varied entertainment schedule which is perfect for those with the younger families.

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