I came across innumerable flights to Canary Islands as all the seven in the archipelago have airports. Though four of the airports can only be used for inter-island destinations, the other three namely Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife take care of all the international flights including the ones from mainland Spain.

Tenerife has two main airports namely Tenerife Sur (Reina Sofía) and Tenerife Norte (Los Rodeos). The latter handles all the inter-island hops and also those to the Spanish mainland, whereas the former being more modern caters to all the charter flights. All the fights, which are directly serving the islands are called charters.

The airport at Gran Canaria is 16 kilometers to the south of Las Palmas whereas the airport at Lanzarote is at a convenient distance of 6 kilometers from the capital, Arricife. The only other way to get to these islands is Trasmediterránea (tel: 902 45 46 45; www.trasmediterranea.com) ferry, which is used to carry cars and daily supplies to the island. But you ought to be tough to withstand the long bumpy journey. The ferry gets started from Cadiz (on Mediterranean coast of Spain) on Tuesday evening and arrives at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ,on the following Thursday. Then further it moves to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where it reaches by mid-afternoon and from there around midnight, it sails on to Santa Cruz de La Palma. It arrives at Santa Cruz de La Palma on Friday morning.