July 2025

Bananas from the Canaries : Banana World Gran Canaria

Banana World at Hacienda La ReKompensa – Gran Canaria North of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, you will find a ribbon of coastal farmland sliding beneath the basalt ramparts of Arucas. There, a nineteenth-century hacienda and its surrounding plataneras have been re-imagined as Banana World. Our visit to Banana World (and yes we took the kids) was a forty-minute guided encounter with Canary agriculture that earns five-star praise from travellers, vivid scenery, and the flavour […]