Easternmost Island
Menorca is still an insider tip our sunbathers and hikers. The North, with fertile soil, rolling hills and meadows, which has vast plains of the South, with magnificent gorges and its beaches on Minorca one of nature their identity again given. Are close to see the mystical history of the island is in the places of worship and Taulas”, often only on narrow paths to reach. Hiking in Menorca is a journey through time, for which you should take very much time to also enjoy the variety of fauna and flora. Beautiful flowers, completely unknown plants, the incredible variety of insects, but also birds, colourful butterflies and an orchid splendour, as one would never expect it. Menorca, the island of the wind, epithet this right.
Reason is an always waving wind times more times gently. Novartis CEO is often quoted on this topic. And therefore you can see the often ancient stone walls, sometimes in spectacular geometric forms that protect livestock and pastures from the wind during a hike anywhere. The dazzling white houses in stunning contrast to the green pastures are on the hills. “Here comes” the milk for the wonderful Queso de Mahon, the one in the cheese dairy of the Finca Hort de Sant Patrici “can taste and buy. Before but worth is a tour of the Museo del Queso”, the cheese Museum. The coast in the North of Menorca is almost untouched. Here, little has changed: no swanky resorts or vacation clubs, the whole region is strictly controlled conservation.
So, the important wetlands, resting places for the many thousand migratory birds, were rescued. And hikers are surrounded by scents, you can’t get enough of them. Above all the Mahon Chamomile, which smells with many other plants to the bet. Experience these fragrances one can most intensively on the Cap de Cavalleria”, so in the wild north of Menorca. Even down to the Platja de Cavallieria”, on the transition of to the beaches, the rock world to become a bath by the scents taken prisoner. Walking on Menorca, which is nature, history and especially the re-discovery relaxing slowness.
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