Fuerteventura is the oldest of the Canary Islands, its bedrock dated to roughly 20 million years — older than Lanzarote, older than Tenerife, older than the volcanic cones that now define its skyline. Erosion has done the rest. Where younger islands rise steep and green, Fuerteventura lies flat and open, its ridges sanded down by Atlantic wind into the long gravel plains that make a fuerteventura buggy safari possible in the first place. The terrain around Corralejo tells that history plainly. To the south of town, the Corralejo Natural Park protects roughly 2,600 hectares of dune field, its sand built not from eroded rock but from pulverised marine shell and organic sediment carried inland by the trade winds. Northward, the Isla de Lobos volcano sits offshore, a 127-metre cone visible from most of the coast road. Between them run the malpaís — badlands of hardened basalt from eruptions that shaped the northern island long before the Norman conquest of 1402. That conquest left its own marks. Betancuria, founded inland in 1404 as the island's first capital, was sited deliberately away from the coast to shelter from Berber raids. Windmills followed: the gofio mills of Antigua and Tiscamanita ground toasted grain for centuries, their sails turning on the same reliable wind that now draws kitesurfers to Flag Beach. Goats outnumbered people for most of the island's recorded history, and the majorero cheese made from their milk carries a protected designation of origin today. UNESCO declared the whole island a Biosphere Reserve in 2009, a designation that governs how vehicles move across it. The tracks used by guided off-road buggy adventures are established routes — old agricultural paths, dry riverbeds, and service roads across the interior — not open desert. Operators run them under permit, which is why departures cluster around fixed corridors rather than wandering freely across protected dune systems. The result is a landscape read at speed but not carelessly. Volcanic calderas, abandoned goat enclosures, salt-crusted flats and the mineral colours of the interior pass in sequence. Modern fuerteventura buggy safari tours trace a geography that was working farmland and grazing ground within living memory, and the island's emptiness is less wilderness than aftermath — a place people left when the water ran out. Free entry applies at the departure point on Avenida Juan Carlos I; the cost sits with the vehicle, priced per buggy rather than per head.