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Exploring the Island of Menorca on Foot

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  • Duration: 7 Nights
  • Difficulty: Level 2
  • Tour Type: Self Guided
  • Availability: Daily 1st April to 25th October (not between 16th June to 22nd June and 15th July and 31st August)
  • Location: Mahón
Tour Details

Why not enjoy a week-long holiday hiking in Menorca. This particular hiking vacation in Spain is on the Island of Menorca (Minorca) which is part of the Balearic Island group. Discover exactly what Menorca walking has to offer on this stunning island. Menorca is the greenest and most authentic of the Balearic Islands and the perfect place to get acquainted with the true beauty of life in the Mediterranean: deep blue bays, white sand beaches, spectacular cliffs, rolling hills, quiet farmland, historical towns, and ports full of tiny boats and seafood restaurants.

You’ll follow the Camí dels Cavalls, a horsemen’s trail established by English settlers in the 18th century, which has recently been way-marked as a GR long-distance walking path. Your trip begins and ends in the capital of Mahón (also spelt Maó), a convenient base for easy travel to Menorca.

Each day, you enjoy walks in Menorca along each section of the route circling the island. With the help of an occasional taxi transfer or bus ride, you’ll walk the best routes and skip the less interesting parts. You start off walking northwards into S’Albufera Natural Park, then along the coast to reach Cape Favaritx and the fishing village of Fornells. The next few days, your walks will take you past varied scenery: enormous watchtowers, steep cliffs, peaceful orchards, bizarre prehistoric structures.

As you walk, you’ll come to appreciate the island’s natural beauty and understand why Menorca was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993. Intriguingly varied plant life surrounds you, as you walk from beach to beach and village to village. Midweek brings you to the friendly port town of Ciutadella. You then move onward, along the busier south coast. Traversing deep ravines and Mediterranean woodlands, your tour ends on return to the capital city of Mahón.

Starting Location

Mahón

Price Includes

  • 7 nights Bed & Breakfast
  • Family run hotels and farmhouses
  • Information Pack
  • Navigation by Smart Phone App
  • Luggage transfers
  • Transfer as per program on days 2,3,4,5,6,7
  • GPS Files on request

Price Excludes

  • Transport before and after tour
  • Single Rooms
  • Flights
  • Public Transport
  • Entrance to attractions
  • Travel Insurance
  • City Taxes
Trip Info

Accommodation – Subject to Change 

Hotel Capri 

Hostal La Palma 

Hotel Alfonso III 

Hotel Audax 

Difficulty

Level 2 tour.

Travel Insurance

It is a requirement of booking this tour with Hooked on Walking that you have suitable travel insurance which covers you for the chosen activity and for emergency evacuation and hospital care.

Itinerary

Day 1Arrival in Mahón

Arrival on Menorca, where you settle into your accommodation in the capital of Mahón, a pretty port city situated on a hill overlooking the bay – a good base from which to explore this intriguing spot, occupied by English, French and Spanish troops over a period of 150 years (from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries). The atmospheric city centre includes an interesting mix of architectural styles, with stately manor houses and monuments such as the churches of San Francesc and Santa María and the Teatre Principal.

Day 2Es Grau – Port d’Addaia (overnight in Fornells), 11.8 miles 19km, 5.5-6 hours, 350m up/down

Transfer to the fishing village of Es Grau, just outside S’Albufera Natural Park. Your first walk on the Camí dels Cavalls takes you through marshes and dune areas around an enormous freshwater lake. Once past Cape Favaritx, the landscape becomes steeper and rockier. The only splash of colour in this stark landscape is the bright pink blooms of Carpobrotus. You’ll admire the island’s unique flora, then move into areas with salt-water marshes. Your walk ends in the holiday town of Port d’Addaia. Short transfer to your accommodation, in Menorca’s northernmost fishing village.

Day 3Fornells –  Cala S’Alocs (overnight Cala Morell) 10.6 miles 17km, 5.5-6 hours, 600m up/down.

Taxi transfer to Cap de Cavalleria, where you pick up the Camí dels Cavalls for a walk along the rough, isolated coastline of the island’s most mountainous area. The terrain alternates between rocky cliffs and low marshlands, and you traverse Mediterranean woodlands which are home to a wide variety of birds. Along the way, you can stop for a rest at a café on the beach, before reaching Cala S’Alocs, where you’ll be met for the transfer to your accommodation.

Day 4Cala S’Alocs – Cala Morell 8.7 miles 14km, 4 hours, 200m up/down

After breakfast a transfer to Cala Pilar. You start walking at Platja Cala Pilar, first through a flatter landscape and open farmland. The local cheese produced here is called Queso de Mahón, made on the old farmsteads which date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. At the end of your walk a transfer to Ciutadella.

Day 5Cala Morell to Cales Piques (overnight Ciutadella) 8.7 miles 14km, 4.5 hours, 250m up/down

After breakfast a transfer to Cala Morell. Today’s route starts in Cala Morell and takes you into an area adorned with ancient dwellings from the Talayotic period. Surrounded by typical Mediterranean vegetation – rosemary, rockrose, chamomile – you walk toward a dry limestone plateau, where the Tramuntana wind blows constantly across fields enclosed by high walls. No modern houses in sight, just the strange pyramidal structures from earlier times. Your route ends in Cales Piques, where you catch a bus (or continue on foot) to the pretty port town of Ciutadella.

Day 6 Son Xoriguer – Cala Galdana (overnight Cala Galdana)9.4 miles 15km, 4.5 hours, 250m up/down

Short transfer to Son Xoriguer, to continue your trek along the coast. The countryside here is mainly flat, while you walk through woodlands of evergreen oaks, firs and wild olive trees, passing gorgeous coves such as Platges de Son Saura or Cala en Turqueta. Later, the terrain becomes more rugged, and you traverse deep ravines, or barrancos, to reach the coastal village of Cala Galdana. An optional excursion into the Barranc d’Algendar, Menorca’s most spectacular gorge, and time for a swim at the pool or in the sea!

Day 7Circular walk Cala Galdana 8.7 miles 14km, 4.5 hours, 350m up/down

The last walk of the program starts off with a quick detour to Cala Mitjana beach, situated at the edge of a holm oak wood where remains of chalk ovens can be seen. From there, the route goes inland, crossing the limestone plateau of Migjorn, traversed by deep crevices where you might spot a Mediterranean turtle. (Testudo hernanni). At Platjas de Binigaus, you leave the Camí dels Cavalls and follow the coast path “El Litoral” back to Cala Mitjana. Transfer back to Mahón.

Day 8Departure

Depart after breakfast.

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How to get there

By Plane to Menorca.

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