Eivissa

Como distribuir tu estancia en la isla Blanca:

Es muy fácil, si lo que estabas buscando aquí seguro que lo encuentras: fiesta y playa. Por eso se garantiza una diversión veraniega pero.. ¿Qué propongo? Aquí dejo un pequeño resumen :

- dias de playa:

En el pequeño resort de Cala Vadella, 10 minutos en coche desde San José, Tamaño: 275 metros largo, 30-70 metros ancho. Con unas vistas impresionantes se desciende hasta la bahía de Cala Vadella, rodeada por colinas cubiertas de pinares, ideal para caminantes. La playa amplia, de arena fina, inclinada en su tramo final hasta tocar el borde del agua. Poca profundidad que asegura la seguridad y diversión. Además de las mejores Paellas probadas jamás en el restaurante al final de la carretera en primera linea de la playa, muy recomendado!

Cala Boix es una cala bien protegida por las colinas de la zona, cubierta de arena oscura. Tamaño: 100 metros largo, 8-10 metros ancho. Se llega a ella por una escalera con escalones bastante inclinados y dificiles.

Tomando el nombre de la salinera al sur de Ibiza, la Playa de Las Salinas (Ses Salines) está situada en el extremo meridional de la isla. La larga curva arenosa que forma la playa está rodeada de pinos y dunas. Las aguas cristalinas centellean en los días sin viento e irradian una quietud y serenidad súblimes. Ideal también para los excursionistas con ganas de explorar una de las zonas declaradas como Reserva Natural de Ibiza y Formentera.Tamaño: 1,5 kilómetros largo, 25-30 metros ancho.

Consejo: si se va con energía, camine hasta la torre vigía. Fuera de temporada es una manera de sacudirse las telarañas y puede regresar por el bosque. En verano le permite descubrir las calitas situadas a lo largo de la costa rocosa. ¡Igual te encuentras con una playita sólo para ti!

Dejar este para el último dia de viaje es como una buena despedida de la isla, eso si tiene que caer en Domingo :

Un recorrido bellísimo, zigzagueando entre colinas y valles, le lleva hasta la Playa de Bernirrás, una pequeña bahía rodeada de colinas alfombradas de pinos. Una pequeña cala arenosa con mucho encanto, rodeada de colinas cubiertas de pinos. Las rocas, que sirven de límite de la playa son un sitio ideal para ‘estudiar’ el fondo marino haciendo esnórquel. Los alrededores son un lugar ideal para largos paseos. Esta bahía protegida es un popular punto de amarre para barcos y yates que desean admirar las impresionantes puestas de sol acompañadas con frecuencia por sonidos de tambores y ambiente hippie. Esta reunión de tambores es una experiencia única de Ibiza, asentada después de muchos años. No obstante, últimamente la policía se ve obligada en temporada alta a regular el tráfico ante la masiva afluencia de personas que acuden a ser testigos de este espectáculo.

- Qué hacer:

ATLANTIS: paseo por una ruta mágica ¿vas a dejar que te lo cuenten? Baja y descubrélo… (*)

Es Vedrá, algo que seguro que te va atraer nada mas verlo.

Mercadillo Hippie: miércoles y sábados en San Carlos.

Parada en algun bar payés a tomar unas hierbas ibicencas.

Atardecer en San Antonio (al Norte), un día de relajamiento para desconectar. Cenita y tomar algo en el Cafe de Mar o Budha Bar, un mojito, dos,…

Comer un bocata en Santa Gertrudis… jamón jamón de Guijuelo!

Tomar un café con croisant en El Jardin por la mañana, situado en la plaza del Mercado de Eivissa al lado de Dalt Vila.

Visita por Dalt Vila, callejuelas y vistas.

Excursión a Formentera.

- Fiesta:

Frente a Bora Bora, existe una zona comunmente conocido para la primera hora de la noche que no estaria mal.

Ushuaïa, un club situado en plena playa y muy chic, no está nada mal…

Discos a los que no hay que perderse: si bien por DJ´s o fiestas organizadas Space o Amnesia, indudables.

Por último, si quieres conocer la esencia de Pacha pues por Talamanca ahi lo vas a encontrar.

* Se llama Sa Pedrera des Savinar, es un lugar único, desde época romana se cortaba piedra de marés para construir parte de las murallas de Eivissa, las transportaban en barco.

Hace unos años unos escultores tallaron dos preciosos torsos humanos, hoy casi han desaparecido, la erosión del mar y el viento hace su trabajo. Lo que no es necesario, ni siquiera bonito, es “contribuir” al mundo del arte con grabados hechos para entretenerse o pretender pasar a la posteridad. Las piedras tienen su historia, no les hace falta recordar tu nombre esculpido rasgando su piel.

Recuerda el lugar y el lugar se acordará de ti sin necesidad de grabar tu nombre, a nadie le interesa saber que estuviste allí. Quien esculpió las figuras trató con delicadeza y amor a esa roca y permanece anónimo.

Atlantis – Trail of Stones

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Have you heard of Atlantis on Ibiza? It is a magical place opposite es Vedra, the powerful stony island off Ibiza’s west coast. Centuries ago this place was used as a quarry and the cut stones were used to build homes, defensive towers and the walls of the fortified city. Our photographer Rüdiger Eichhorn visited Atlantis – and discovered a fascinating place.

“May everyone be happy in life,” is a wish written by a Japanese hippy more than 30 years ago beneath the image of an Asian deity. The legend says that he lived in a small cave near the shrine for a while and occasionally played his violin. The music was carried along the slippery rock of the steep cliffs all the way down to Atlantis and on up to the Torre de Savinar, the powerful stone defensive tower, before fading away across Cala d’Hort. All who heard it spoke of the enchantment and magic the music brought to this special place.

Everyone today who makes their way to Atlantis, the defensive tower or the platform below the Torre can confirm that the enchantment and magic of this location remains unbroken! Ypu can feel it too as you make your way along the trail of stones. This trail leeds you to several spots on the island. These are places where you can still appreciate how the workers and stonecutters did their work, using the same principles – the principles of using the geological structures and formations to their best advantage.

This is a report about Atlantis, a magical location opposite the magical es Vedra, where it appears that a city has sunk beneath the waters when the sun shines upon it. This is an ancient quarry whose stones were cut out of the rock and used to build many of the structures we can still see on the island.

If you, dear reader, should wish to take the tour yourself here is a short description of how to get there. First head over from Es Cubells to Cala d’Hort. Just after the crest of the hill make a left onto the small camino you find there, before the road turns to the right to es Boldado. On this camino you will be able to see es Vedra ahead of you, making it hard to miss. At the end of this road you’ll find a place to park and you will usually not be alone. After about twenty minutes walking along the main beaten path you will arrive at the Torre de Savinar defensive tower, and in about ten minutes to the platform beneath the Torre. It is an ideal location to enjoy a sunset over es Vedra..

However, to get to Atlantis you have to keep to the left, heading around the mountain, so to speak, and after about five minutes the view opens up. Below is the turquoise of the sea, to the left on the horizon is Cap Llentrisca, to your right are the steep cliffs crowned by the Torre.

Temperatures in May are pleasant for this tour. I cannot say that I didn’t perspire, however, I would not want to imagine walking along this south-facing slope in August. No thank you! The high temperatures at that time of year would make a dip in the sea that much more refreshing, but then you would have to climb back up in the heat! Right now is a very good time to visit this area.

Take your choice of the many trails heading down to the water. I opted for the one to the right at the foot of the cliff. Be sure to bring water and shoes with good soles.

At about the halfway point of the descent you reach the previously mentioned cave. There is a small natural stone platform in front of it. The view is gorgeous and some pine trees provide much needed shade. To the right of this platform there is a giant monolith that ages ago must have detached from the cliffs above and fallen to this location. It is more than impressive. Weathered climbing eyehooks pay witness to past rock climbing activity. A second boulder of similar size managed to land at the edge of the quarry.

“May all beings live happily” - best wishes from a hippy

Just before reaching your goal there is another broad field of dunes that seems unusual on such a cliff face. Sedimentary stone at the far end gives you an idea how erosion formed these dunes over time. More or less na’ve works of art show how easy this stone is to work. And now we have arrived at the goal of our journey.

How much work it must have been for stonemasons of centuries past to find construction materials of various degrees of hardness in such a small area? On the one hand, it had to be soft enough that you could form hairpins and statues and on the other, hard enough to make window and door frames – not to mention walls for defensive towers and the fortified city walls. In many locations today you can still see the dimensions of the stones quarried out of the rock here. The sedimentary layers allowed the masons predictable and smooth break lines for the blocks. Some stones from Atlantis can be found in the Torre de Savinar, the tower crowning the cliffs here.

This tower was built in the 16th Century as part of a system of defensive and observation towers on Ibiza. Watchmen kept lookout for the feared pirates and used light signals to warn the population, who then fled into the forests or fortified churches.

There was an enormous need for practical and cheap construction materials for these powerful towers that had to be able to survive pirate attacks. Just 100 metres from the tower as the crow flies the builders could draw on unlimited resources. At the lower end of the cliff you are in the middle of the quarry, but that is almost too profane a word for this location. The name Atlantis is much better. It represents beauty, mystery and mysticism. Come and allow yourself to be enchanted by an almost unparalleled variety of forms and colours. Perhaps the sun will have warmed one of the water basins formed by the quarrying to bathing temperature and can provide you with a foretaste of the summer to come.

You can almost imagine the medieval cables and pulleys that would have allowed the transfer of the stone blocks from a ship up to the top of the cliff. There is no question that this spot lets your fantasy take flight, whether it is the variety of “art works” from the modern age or the markings for a supposed “UFO landing site”. The slowly setting sun bathes the whole scene in a mild light, so on my way back up the cliff I stopped a number of times to enjoy the magic.

However, stonemasons didn’t quarry stone from Atlantis for the defensive towers alone. A portion of the stones for the cathedral in Palma are also believed to have come from Ibiza. I will continue following the trail of the stones and write my report for you next month. Until next time!

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Eira-Eiro…

Ciudad portuguesa en el distrito de Coímbra, ubicada en el litoral atlántico, junto al valle del río Mondego, y es uno de los centros turísticos más importantes de Portugal, con uno de los mayores casinos del país, una plaza de toros, una enorme área con equipamentos lúdicos y deportivos donde en diversas ocasiones se ha celebrado el Mundialito de fútbol de playa y una animada vida nocturna. Si lo que buscas es pasar ratos en arenas doradas, tablas de surf que surcan las olas y grandes playas, en Figueira te puedes encontrar una propuesta para fin de semana. Y si lo que buscas es diversión y animación no dudes en alojarte en Paintshop, un albergue que está preparado para estas ocasiones.

NYC site

Nueva York puede convertirse en lo que tu quieras que sea, tanta gente que han proyectado en ella tantas cosas, por esa razón miles de visitantes de todos los rincones del mundo acaban seducidos, perdidos en la jungla urbanita, tantas cosas que se pueden ver en un dia bien aprovechado y sobretodo experimentar la aventura de la gran manzana. Seré lo más breve para transformar mi estancia en un resumen para el viajero vago que le gusta improvisar pero con que tienen en mente objetivos concretos e ineludibles.

NYC can be what ever you desire, thats´s why so many people have reflected so many things in this city and visitors  come from all over the world end up seduced, lost in the city jungle, there are quite a lot of places to see on one long day and experiment the adventures of the big apple. I will try to be brief and transform my stay in a short sketch for lazy travellers who like to improvise but also “gotta do what a traveller´s gotta do“