Ecomuseo de Guinea y Lagartario, Canary Islands, Spain

4.0 (376 reviews) Spent Ranking #3 in El Hierro Natural History Museums

History of indigenous people and nature

When visiting el Hierro it’s a must to come here. The museum combines parts about volcanic formations, lagartos (big lizards of el Hierro) and the life of bimbaches. We got a guided tour which lasted for an hour and a half and did not regret even though it was in Spanish only. If you happen to come here and want to get tourist passport don’t forget to ask. We did not and they didn’t offer us.
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Address

Gral de Las Puntas s/n, 38911 Frontera, El Hierro Spain

Mobile

+34 922 55 50 56

Website

http://www.elhierro.travel

Current local date and time now

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4.0 based on (376 reviews)

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  • 3CJBRJB 5:00 PM Dec 6, 2022
    A nice way to spent a couple of hours
    I hadn't realised that in addition to the abandoned/preserved village there was a giant lizard enclosure and a volcanic tube as well, the later two require a guide. We arrived at 10am which I think is when it opened and we purchased a ticket for 9.50E each. The first tour was at 11am so we spent an hour looking around the village. At 11am a guide took a large group of us into the volcanic tube, this was quite interesting but the guide spoke in Spanish so we didn't get the full benefit of the tour (they do give you a small leaflet on the volcano but it has very limited information) and then finally you are taken to the giant lizard enclosure where you can view the lizards though the glass windows but I was expecting to see quite large lizards and although they call them "Giants" they were actually quite small. Again the tour is in Spanish but there are a few displays written in English but I think to gain the real experience of the tour you need to understand Spanish.
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  • 4HenriCloete 5:00 PM Jan 22, 2022
    Interesting place to see
    The museum of the Guinea village is very interesting and worth a visit. The conservation effort of the local lizards is admirable (although the lizards themselves were a bit of a let down, but it might just be because we grew up with larger lizards in Africa). Unfortunately, the tour was only in Spanish (although the tour guide made a great effort to give us a quick summary in English at each stop), which made the tour feel a bit like wasted time for us - it would definitely be good to have at least one English tour in a day.

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