Punta Jandía lighthouse: what stands at the end of the track

Punta Jandía is the southernmost point of Fuerteventura, and there is a lighthouse on it that has been working since 1864. It was designed by the engineer Juan de León y Castillo, its light sits 33 metres above sea level in a cylindrical tower, and it was built to guide shipping heading from Europe towards the ports of west Africa as well as the route between Las Palmas, Gran Tarajal and what was then Puerto de Cabras.

That is the whole attraction, and it is worth being clear about it before anyone books. There is no visitor centre to work through and no queue. What makes the place is that you have driven roughly twenty kilometres of unpaved track along the coast to reach a working navigational light at the end of the island, with the tiny settlement of Puertito de la Cruz a couple of kilometres behind you.

Why almost everyone gets there in someone else’s vehicle

The access is an unpaved track. Standard hire car agreements on this island as a rule exclude unsurfaced roads, which means a breakdown or damage out there is your problem and not the rental company’s. We set this out in detail in the jeep safari to Cofete, and it applies with more force here, because Punta Jandía is further out than Cofete is.

Read your own rental contract rather than a forum post. The clause is usually short, easy to find and unambiguous, and it is the actual reason the guided trips to this corner of the island exist at all. If you are travelling without a car in any case, Fuerteventura without a hire car explains which parts of the island a bus reaches. This is not one of them.

The €85 tour and what the extra hours buy

Tour 28145, the jeep safari to Cofete and the Punta Jandía lighthouse, is listed in our inventory dated 16 September 2026 at €85 with a duration of five hours. It has 4.5 stars from 161 reviews. Its own description calls the area “Cofete National Park”, and that is simply not a thing: Cofete lies inside the Jandía Natural Park, which is a different designation and a different name. We flagged the same wording in the Villa Winter article, and it is a marketing phrase, not a place.

Compare that with the shorter trips. The three-hour Cofete jeep safari, tour 337026, is €65 with 4.5 stars from 2,578 reviews. The Cofete and Villa Winter tour, tour 428891, is €57 for four hours at 4.8 stars from 1,817 reviews. Both reach Cofete. Neither advertises the lighthouse.

So the €20 over the three-hour trip, and the two extra hours, are the lighthouse leg — the stretch of track past Puertito de la Cruz to the point. Whether that is good value depends entirely on whether a nineteenth-century tower at the end of a dirt road is the kind of thing you travel for. Some people will find it the best hour of the week. Others will have seen the good part at Cofete and will be sitting in a jeep for two hours longer than they wanted.

The other ways to the same point

The two-hour buggy tour in Punta de Jandía, tour 513810, is listed at €150 with 4.5 stars from 40 reviews and a one-hour duration in the catalogue against a two-hour title — ask the operator which is right for your date before paying. A buggy puts you in the driving seat and in the dust; a jeep puts you in a seat with a guide talking. The buggy and quad comparison sets out what that difference feels like in practice, and the buggy category has the full range.

Two further Jandía options sit in between. Kingdom Jandía: Cofete Beach and Roque del Moro, tour 560439, is €59 with 4.6 stars from 425 reviews, and Cofete Safari and Treasures of Jandía, tour 804972, is €69 with 4.7 stars from 153. Read each itinerary for the word lighthouse rather than assuming that “Jandía” in a title includes the point. It usually does not.

What five hours on that track is actually like

Unpaved coastal track means corrugations, dust and a lot of movement in the vehicle. There is no shade at the point and very little along the way. Bring water, expect noise, and do not plan anything demanding for the rest of the day.

If anyone in the party is prone to motion sickness, this is a harder ride than a boat in calm water, and the road cannot be avoided by choosing a different seat. What helps and what is suitable for a particular person is a question for a pharmacist, not for us. Our seasickness guide for children was written for boats and the planning logic transfers, but the remedies question does not belong here.

Photographs: the light is on the western side of the point and the afternoon is the obvious hour, but a tour departure time is a tour departure time. Ask when you will be at the lighthouse rather than hoping.

When this is the wrong booking

Skip it if five hours in a vehicle with two stops is more than your day can take, and take the shorter Cofete trip instead. Skip it with small children: the distance, the corrugations and the absence of anything to do at the destination make it a poor fit, and our family guidance on trip length explains why the cheap per-hour maths misleads families here.

Book it if the end of the island is the point of the exercise — if a working light from 1864, a twenty-kilometre track and a settlement of a few houses are what you came to see, rather than a beach with a bar. On that measure it delivers exactly what it says, and there is very little else on Fuerteventura like it. The rest of the land-based programme is in things to do on Fuerteventura, and which tour is right for you compares the formats side by side.