Have just returned from a week in Mallorca, my third visit but the first time doing any decent walks – Many thanks to Muz for the route suggestions, but his weather prediction was not so good. But I suppose a little rain on one day was ok. We were staying in Deia up in the Tramuntana range of mountains, a world away from Magaluf – very peaceful and fantastic walking country. Here are a few pics of the walks:-
Deia to Port Soller – a coastal walk.
This is walk along a crumbling eroded path in places – but that made it more fun. High above the sea at times – typical Med coastline.
Port Soller below
Back in Deia – the view from our digs
Es Teix – typical Manchester weatherI ignored the rain clouds high above and walked up to Es Teix, a 3000ft mountain above Deia. The walk linked up with the walk ways that are a legacy of the Archduke Lluis Salvador. They run high along a limestone escarpment with superb views apparently. There were also snow holes here and there – they used to pack snow in and use the ice later in the year. Lots of old mule routes – steep but interesting. I got royally soaked on my way up, but dried out by the end of the day.
The Archduke’s path runs along the top of the limestone scarp close to the edge
With good views along the coast
Sa Ratteta and L’Ofre from CuberMore 3000footers, but cheated a bit by starting relatively high up at the reservoir at Cuber. A good ridge walk along bare limestone pavement. Some interesting little rock walks, but annoyingly L’Ofre had a cloud hat on, so I didn’t get the best views. I returned to the start via the GR221 – a long distance path from the SW to NW of Mallorca. Great big skies though so some good pictures today.
Soller to Deia via the Cami de CastelloAn easy walk up the GR221 to Deia. Got the bus to Soller and wandered along the old mule paths. First stop was at Son Bleda for a beer – what a view up to the mountains. I didn’t realise that there was a freshly squeezed orange juice place just around the corner – so we stopped there as well. Then it was a gentle ramble back to Deia – too many people around this path though.
Back to L’OfreAs a quiet day we decided to walk back up to L’Ofre to see if we could get the views down over Soller – alas the geography of the place got the better of us and the clouds were forming as we watched. Irony of all, as we walked back down the valley and looked back – it was as clear as a bell….Victor Meldrew etc
A great week and a superb place to walk – any questions ask MUZ!