Mallorca caves
19-20.07.2019
As you know from Palma post, I visited Mallorca last summer (2019). It was short, only the weekend but very intensive and of course with some adventures. In this post I'd like to write about the caves we saw those days because as you could read, Palma - nothing interesting to be there more than 1 day, buuut Mallorca is known for the mountains and the beaches. Because of caravan we couldn't go to the mountain side (west part) so we decided to move a little bit to the south and to the east.
Our first goal was - Cala del Moro
We left the caravan in the public parking (there were already so many cars!) and then we had to walk more or less 20 min, first on the street (there were signs) and later there was a wild route.
In Mallorca there are strange houses...
The view was already amazing!
Look at the water!
And here we are!
The cave is on the right.
To go down coast me a lot but wow wow wow. WORTH! The worst was to cross with the people from the other direction... -.-
And then...paradise!
To touch the water you have to survive. There is a steep descent and with sandals it’s quite difficult (recommendation: have some good shoes for walking, and then on the beach change to the water shoes - because of the rocks).
And the beach wasn’t the true beach, it was just a hole between two hills, no sand, only sharp rocks, so not for sunbathing. And the place was full of people...omg, hate that crowd.
How clear is the water....wooooow
I swam to the cave - a little bit, I respect my life. I swam there and there and took some photos but then... what can I do? Booooorriiiing. Especially that you can’t lay down to do siesta because there is no space and if there is, it’s not comfortable. So I decided to climb and check the rest of this place.
It was a perfect idea! 😍
My blog my photos, sorry hehe xD
100% introvert house.
And then I decided to walk more and I found this!
Wooow another house and those cute stairs to the sea…. 😍
I was in love!
And of course another cave. And less people!
Raffa, look, it's not a yacht… buuuut ;)
Of course I had prepared my nails for this trip!
I went down, again I swam a little bit and then I climbed to see the other side. And I was admiring people jumping to the water from those rocks. #FearLevelHard
And then was time to come back. The plan was to go to the city, eat dinner and then find a perfect place to park to wake up with a beautiful sunrise.
We went to Porto Cristo.
When people were taking shower, i didn't want to wait for my turn doing nothing so I went to see the city during the last hour of the sun.
Souvenir from Mallorca? Choose the best one!
I think it could be a nice idea to have some small trip to see the island from the other side, all the coast - woow! Next time!
This is my retirement life.
It looks red, but wasn’t painful, #morenita ;)
There was some small festival, music, people dancing, etc. In one moment they said that they are dancing POLKA but wtf… Unfortunately I didn't have anyone (from Moszczenica) to show them how to dance true polka…
Tumblr hates my gifs sometimes so here you have the links:
https://gfycat.com/inbornshinyleafhopper
and mallorquín dance:
https://gfycat.com/inbornshinyleafhopper
Then we went to eat. Mallorca is quite expensive but you can also survive with some “pizza”.
Or be more fancy at least one night!
More or less the prices:
And then romantic walk with Fede and the ice cream.
Finally I could see the stars in Spain!!!!! ❤
Then we took a car to go to one perfect sunrise spot - Torre del Serral dels Falcons. The parking is free and quite big, there are also some tables and benches so perfect for barbecue.
Wine, stars, moon on the coast... couldn’t be better!
And this view from the window:
IN LOOOOVE! Take me there again please!
Maybe I’ve told you already but! Perfect moment of the sunrise is before the sunrise!
So have it in mind to wake up 20 min before to enjoy those colors.
Imagine to live here during the quarantine... please yes!
Then we had a loooong photo session ;)
When you need 5 min to stop laughing.
I was so tan...omg I miss it!
And then the breakfast with those views! And let's go to discover more caves!
We decided to go to Cala Varques. The problem was to arrive there. Recommendation, follow the street signs, Google sometimes doesn't have the information if the road is open for everyone. It's better to walk 15 min more than get a fine or be stuck in nowhere. And also there are people on the motorbikes showing the way to their parking xd paid one but wasn't that expensive.
So yes, we had to walk like 20min on the road, but not a problem. Later was through the forest but no worries, there were many people walking with us.
The place was a little bit less amazing but still woooow.
And again, swimming! That day the waves were so high and strong! Not for bambini hahaha but we enjoyed a lot, papallonas! But yeah, would be easier with special shoes because of the rocks. The sun was quite strong so we went to the forest to chill in the shadow and there we found many groups of travelers (tents, backpacks, wild life). I needed some siesta, so chilling omg.
Well... my hair got crazy xD
Then we went to visit the coast, first to the right. At the end there were ruins of some house but the most incredible thing - the steps down to the sea… Woow! #respect
And again photoshooting ;)
Then we decided to find more caves! This time Fede wanted to go with me. She trusted me #hehe.
And here we have THE BEST ADVENTURE.
First we found reached the cave which we saw from the beach. There were only few people, mostly to take a photo and that's all, we also did that #ofCourse.
But we were also observing people climbing on the other side. One of them was a girl in flip-flops (góralu czy Ci nie żal patrzeć na turystki w sandałkach?). And she did it without any problems so we were more convinced to do it as well. We asked also guys who came from there and they said that it's ok. So I just checked on the map if there is some other way, because I could climb but I didn't want to go back the same way #FearOfHeights. And there was! OK, decided, we go there!
OMG.
My whole life passed in front of my eyes. Wtf how this girl in flip-flops could have done it without problems. It was climbing 100%. #neverAgain
I was sure I would not come back the same way.
And then we were on the top! So beautiful view!
We started following some couples with a hope that they knew the way. But they was walking so fast in this dry grass and suddenly they disappeared. Great. There was some path in this stupid painful grass but sometimes was disappearing. Then we reached the end of the coast and as a map was saying, we should reach the other coast and then there should be a road.
Ok. We went down, was quite easy, then up, more difficult but now like first time and then… No path xD Great. So we just moved along, more or less, the problem was high dry grass.
On the other side we realized that 30 min before we were standing on the cave. #fuckMyLife #stillScared
Suddenly in this grass, on small bush I saw a skull of some goat. I was thinking if I should say it to Fede (she was already so scared) but my mouth was faster xD and when I said it I saw that it's full body, I mean, full skeleton. Poor goat probably stuck in this bush and couldn't move…. We run away. And Fede started thinking about helicopters which would come to save us. She was terrified, I tried to keep calmness. She didn't want to talk to me… moments of silence.
And then we found the road! The strange thing was that on the right side was a big closed gate… But, whatever, we had to go to the left so… Then we were walking and walking between 2 fences. On the right potatoes and goats, on the left looked like military area because of the spines. And then we found an info that it's private CAZA. I thought that it's in mallorquín - casa (house), but Fede had her theory. Later I checked on the internet - hunting place XDDD
And then... our road was blocked. Blocked by 3 m height gate. Impossible to jump. We are bambini! Come back? fuck no. So what now? Think JB, think. Because od the fear we didn’t notice that before on the fence on the left was a hole. Let’s try. And then we walked on some path and at the end there was a wall like 1,5 m and a plastic garden chair! We are safe! We could use the chair to jump <3
Fun fact: I said to Fede “put the chair on the other side of the wall because on this one we have a rock”. She did it, but the chair felt down xDD #goodJob Fortunately there was some man walking so we asked him to put the chair back, hahahaha imagine xD He did it <3 We jumped. and then we were on the right road to the caravan.
INFO: later we read that this cave is private but people had made a whole and nobody cares.
To help you imagine the adventure I’ve made a video, enjoy! (there are English subtitles ;) )
So yes. that’s all! We came back to Palma to spend the evening and night there (because of the flight at 5 am).
Soon I’ll put here the recommendations from mallorquín people about other caves and beaches!
