We started the day at Croissant Show and had breakfast before taking a boat out to Ses Illetes on nearby island of Fromentera. There we had the mud baths all to ourselves and dipped ourselves in the mud, which dried on us like a husk in the sunny air. Mud covered, we thought how we’d look at an Ibiza night club muddied up like this but it was hard to smile through all the caked mud and dove into the sea to wash it off.
Ibiza is famous for its club scene, yet with little effort you can be in protected sites and beaches of the most beautiful sort. Or you can go shopping with the best of them in the little market of las Dalias near San Carlos for some rather high end and very unusual fashion. You can get leather moccasins and cool batik dresses from India and Balinese manufacturers, as well as unusual silver jewelry. The Salina, on the south of the island, are two thousand year old salt fields. They still use them today.
In fact, this market is part of the hippy culture that that arrived with artists in the fifties and sixties. The wonderful architecture that’s famous the world over is visible in Sa Pena, with Arab styled buildings that line narrow cobble streets. this is the old fisherman’s quarters.
We went to Caves Can Marca where it’s possible to view the bay and the muradensis lizards which abound here and watch the setting sun. Luckily it’s close to the aforementioned market (little did we know) and we can see why people come here year after year. the Mediterranean climate, the beaches, the views and scenery and the cuisine bring people back. We talked to one couple who’ve been returning here for ten years and they say they’ve found a slice of heaven. Who can argue?
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