If you decide to circumnavigate the island, heading in the southeast direction, you will find various coves and beaches of unparalleled beauty like Cala Pi, Strenc Beach, and Colonia de Sant Jordi – where you can navigate onward to the National Park of the Cabrera Archipelago. On such cruises, after losing sight of the coast, you can see dolphins swimming. Once in Cabrera you can visit spectacular caves under stunning-colored rocks, go snorkeling and if lucky swim with turtles. A permit is needed to drop anchor in Cabrera.
Back on the island you can head northeast through the coves of Santanyi, noting for example Cala Figuera where you’ll find a water inlet between the cliffs. It ends by opening into two arms formed by the junction of two streams, Caló d’en Busques and Caló d’en Boira, which offers the best protection for anchoring small boats. Its unique landscape consists of old stone houses of fishermen and their “escars” which are the holes dug into the rock in order to beach their small boats between rock cliffs and pine trees overlooking the sea.
If you head north, you’ll find Porto Cristo, and the Bays of Alcudia and Pollensa from where you can sail to Menorca. You can also take the island’s north route to Soller – a more challenging route because of its scarce ports on the one hand and its feared Tramontana wind which often leads to frequent storms.
Once in the north, you must make a mandatory stop in Sa Calobra which is at the mouth of the “torrent of Pareis” in the middle of Sierra de Tramuntana. Although there are the smooth pebbles formed by the torrent there is also a very interesting inland visits along the torrent; you can see the different lakes fomed in between the mountains.
Finally, you will face the stretch heading west to the Natural Park of the Island of Sa Dragonera, named because of its shape resembling a dragon. By heading south you will pass through the Port of Andratx, the Bay of Santa Pontça and finish the tour by arriving again at Palma Bay.