Sunflower Books: Landscapes of MALLORCA: WALKS AND CAR TOURS

Mallorca, 7th ed (2010), updated 22/11/11

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Updates for walks and car tours (drives) on Mallorca given below supplement those provided in the guidebook. It is vital that this Update is read in conjunction with the text of the book, but note that the Update applies only to the edition stated and not to any earlier editions. (If you have an older edition of this book and want to "upgrade" to the latest edition at half price, click here.)

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Overnight accommodation
In case you want to stay at a monastery, etc, here are the telephone numbers:
Lluc: 971-871525
San Salvador: 971 827282
Monti-Sion: 971 647185
Cura: 971 120260
Puig de María: 971 184132
Ermita de Bonany: 971 561101
Ermita on the Puig St Miquel: 971 646314
Castell d'Alaró: 971 510480
Tossals Verds: 971 182027

Monastery/refuge accommodation: Castel d'Alaró now has five new 4-bedded bunk rooms with radiator (12 euros). Take your own sleeping bag; blanket and pillow provided. Cold rainwater only (take sterilizing tablets); NO showers. Bar/meals available in common/dining room by fire. Refugi La Muleta by Soller lighthouse is the same as Tossals Verds, but only one large mixed dorm (so snorers, please give this a miss!). Only walkers and cyclists are accepted. Warm, comfortable, showers, meals available. Usually 3 nights maximum stay (10 euros). On Saturdays usually booked in advance by locals. Sheet hire extra, or take your own. New refuge "Can Boi" opened in Deia June 2006. Same as Tossals Verds and Muleta. 2 dorms with 18 and 12 beds. For all 3 ring government department Mon-Fri between 9am and 2pm. 971 173 700/731. Website www.conselldemallorca.net (but English version not up to date - manage in Catalan or Castellano if poss!) (Various users)

RESURRECTION OF OLD WALKS

CASTEL DEL REI: This is now open again, but you have to get a permit from the tourist office either in Pollenca or Port de Pollensa. Take your passport with you, and book a date a few days in advance as the permit comes from the local authority and only twenty walkers per day are given access to the valley. We did the walk in September and it is just as lovely as ever, but now with this system you are given more time to enjoy the walk and the choice of day to walk. Do try it again if you remember it from a few years ago. You can no longer gain access to the castle itself (said to be unsafe!), but you do now have time to walk down to the cala. Hope that more people take the oportunity to do this walk again as so much effort has been made to open the valley up to walkers again! (User, 11/11)

PUIG DE S'AGUILA.
A walk which featured in the early editions of the Landscape "Mallorca" was from Cala San Vicente up to Puig de S'Aguila, when it used to be possible in the 1980s to walk this. This ceased in the 1990s when it was a) restricted to certain days of the week, and b) prohibited altogether. We have looked at it in recent years but the prohibition notices were still there. This year, however, we spotted people on it, and went to investigate. The notices have gone, access is OK, and there is even a monument at the start dedicated to walkers who strive to keep routes open. It was always a popular walk, useful to tie in with the path over Soller from Puerto Pollensa to SCV, and could perhaps be re-considered? Foreigners and Mallorquins are now back on it, the latter continuing on to Mola. (User, 5/08)