Snacks on the beach: The bizarre Canary Island tourist spot where the sand looks like POPCORN
- The beach is made up of nugget-sized pieces of coral that have washed ashore
- Visitors to the Fuertaventura beach have posted their snaps on Instagram
- The white coral mixed with the black volcanic rock makes it look like popcorn
It looks like any other white pebbly beach, but look closer and the pebbles could be mistaken for pieces of popcorn.
The Canary Islands beach, which is taking social media by storm, has been nicknamed Popcorn Beach by travel bloggers and Instagrammers flocking to its unusual shoreline.
The surreal-looking beach is located in Corralejo, which is a town on the island of Fuerteventura.
White coral, which has been eroded by the sea and washed out to shore is intermingled with black sand and volcanic rocks, making it look very much like popcorn.
The popcorn-shaped sand lends its name to Popcorn Beach or Popcorn Bay as it is known by tourists, situated on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura
The small white chunks of coral which have been eroded by the waves intermingle with black volcanic rocks and sand, making it look like popcorn
Fuerteventura is the second largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, which sit in the Atlantic ocean, a mere 100km off Africa’s north-west coast.
The largest of the archipelago’s islands is Tenerife.
In a video clip of the surreal Popcorn Beach, which was posted on Instagram, it shows the waves crashing onto the dark rock formations which hug the shoreline, giving an even more dramatic visual effect to the white pieces of coral and volcanic rocks dotted all over the beach.
Bloggers and tourists have been busy posting their holiday snaps at Fuerteventura’s Popcorn bay, delighting social media followers
The beach, in Fuenteventura, one of the Canary Islands is dotted with craggy black volcanic rocks, chunks of white coral and black sand, leaving visitors in awe of its surreal beauty
The beach is secluded, allowing for stunning landscape style photos of the untouched beach’s windswept beauty to be captured
Popcorn bay isn’t the only unusual and photogenic beach to have graced social media sites.
The Greek island of Santorini is famous for its red and black sandy beaches, thanks to its volcanic nature.
Thousands of tourists visit the Cycladic island every year and post photos of what could be mistaken for a landscape on the planet Mars, with beaches featuring dramatic and craggy red cliffs hugged by velvety black volcanic sands.
In Crete meanwhile, Elafonisi beach is known for is soft and powdery pink sands which tease the turquoise Aegean waters.
Popcorn Beach is located in a town called Corralejo on Fuerteventura, which is just 100km off the north coast of Africa and popular amongst surfers and windsurfers as well as tourists wanting to take a photo with a handful of this popcorn-like sand
Fuerteventura is popular for watersports, including surfing, windsurfing and waterskiing due to its many beaches interspersed with craggy cliffs and coves