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Corralejo is filled with colour and bustle, like anywhere where tourism races ahead to fast and the infrastructure is unable to keep up. Most of the shops and restaurants are concentrated along the main street, whose western end opens out into the Plaza and which ends in a confusion of narrow one-way streets towards the harbour.

The little sandy bays in the centre are now hardly ever used as moorings for the townspeople’s fishing boats. Instead, they have become playgrounds for the children of the holiday-makers enjoying their holidays on the terraces at the water’s edge or on the shady main square. Towards the east, more and more holiday complexes are springing up, and obviously some of them are quite a distance from the beach. Directly behind the town lies the Corralejo nature park, with its dream beaches and wandering dunes, where strictly speaking, building is illegal. The only legitimated exception are the Hotels Tres Islas and Oliva Beach, which went up in the late 1960s (before a nature protection order was put on the land) and which can therefore provide a picture book panorama from all their windows, in all eternity. Even so, around the two hotels more and more holiday settlements are advancing, metre by metre, along the sandy ground towards the sea., You can book a daytrip on a glass-bottomed boat, or a three-island tour, or go on a deep-fishing trip, where you can either join or watch. At the western edge of the town is the sea water desalination plant. A couple of kilometres further on, on the track to El Cotillo, you can see where the electricity cable linking the island with Lanzarote runs into the sea.