Hiking in Gran Canaria

From Cádiz and Huelva there are connections with Gran Canaria by boat with the following companies: Trasmediterranea and Naviera Armas

The better option to take to fly to the island may vary depending from the place of departure.

From UK, Germany, Ireland and Spain, Ryanair is one of the airlines that have really cheap connections with Gran Canaria and other Canary Islands.

In Spain and France, the Spanish airline Vueling have daily connections from different cities and offer as well low prices.

From France, Switzerland and UK can be interesting to have a look to Easy Jet.

In the Scandinavian countries Norwegian and SAS have direct flights and for those who are under 26y.o can be interesting to check out the prices because in the price is already included a 23kg baggage.

Can be possible to have cheap flights with Norwegian and SAS  from North America stopping normally in Oslo and taking another flight to Gran Canaria.

In Gran Canaria there are different roads where is not allowed to do hitchhike, those that the signal is in blue colour (motorways and dual carriageway. Anyways is possible to do it in the entrances of this roads always before the traffic signal that notices you are getting on the motorway. Can be really useful to go and ask directly to drivers in touristic parking lots or in petrol stations. In the west and central area of the summits there are fewer cars running but in isolated places can be easier sometimes to get a ride than in crowded roads.

Renting a car in Gran Canaria can be a good option for travelling around the west coast if the costs are shared. Cars can be rented for less than 15 euros per day and petrol is really cheap (below 1€/l in 2018).

Public transport in Gran Canaria

There’s a good public transport network in the north, south and east parts of the island. On the west coast there are only a few lines running and for example, from the summits area to the west there isn’t any bus running. The prices of the buses are not as cheap as expected, especially in the south where the tourism is focused. Google Maps works perfectly with the public transport option and shows the fastest way to go and schedule.

Notice that every time you change the bus you need to buy a new ticket, so for going from A to C stopping by B you will need to buy a ticket in the bus for going from A to B and from B to C afterwards. In case you can avoid changing lines is going to be cheaper cause every time you pay for a ticket you are already paying more than 1 euro for getting in. In the following link can be found the prices of the bus and the different routes that run the island. Prices – Lines