![]() If all else fails, there is a taxi service reachable at 608 63 17 07 or 639 28 70 55. Otherwise, thumb work is usually rewarding. For those going up the gorge, the bus goes by Escorca to Sa Calobra far too early to be of any use. ![]() There is a bus, service 355, April to October leaving Sa Calobra at 3 pm to Lluc, stopping at Escorca along the way. The real issue is returning to your vehicle after the walk, as Sa Calobra and Escorca are 16 km apart on the asphalt groups with two cars should park one vehicle at either end, though this is highly time consuming. At the other extremity, the walk up the gorge starts in the bay of Sa Calobra, linked itself by a spectacular, steep and windy road to the Ma 10.īy car: You can park at Escorca as well as at Sa Calobra. The walk down the Torrent de Pareis starts at Escorca, a two house settlement half way between Gorg Blau reservoir and Lluc, right on the main Soller to Lluc road. Start early, or late, or just choose a week day. There is nothing worst then waiting in a queue of twenty plus people for your turn to overcome an obstacle in a cacophony of squeals, screams, laughter and nonsensical comments in all languages bouncing and echoing from one cliff to the other. During the best periods (March to June and September to November) the canyon can be very busy, specially at week end.Backtrack, look for alternatives, search for signs and remember that you may have to leave the bottom of the canyon and climb up the flanks to overcome some obstacles. If it looks difficult, dangerous, and there are no signs, paint marks, cairns, fitted rope or hooks, you are going the wrong way. Always look for a well trodden passage, usually betrayed by well polished rock (foot and hand grips) and mud discoloured stone. ![]() The way along the canyon can be at times confusing.There is no mobile phone reception in the canyon. ![]() If you can not walk ten kilometres and do a normal day's activities afterwards, you may find the going difficult, and put yourself in danger. You need to be reasonably fit! While there are no technical difficulties along the way, a reasonable amount of agility, flexibility, endurance and general fitness is required.Take plenty of water with you and be prepared for temperatures above 40 degrees C. The bottom of the canyon gets terribly hot in full summer.Although the canyon is usually passable, some weather awareness is required in the off season. People have drowned attempting to swim these water catchments, because of low water temperature and lack of easy exit from the said freezing water. In case of severe flooding, long sections of the bottom half of the canyon are un-passable on foot. The canyon can be flooded at times from autumn till spring.The Torrent de Pareis is a Unesco world heritage site This second canyon is narrow and deep, so that day light fails to reach its foot, and is one of the top canyoning destination world wide. ![]() The Torrent de Pareis (translate Torrent of the Pairs), derives it name from the union of two deep canyons, the second one being the Torrent de Gorg Blau running through the canyon de Sa Fosca. The sheer cliffs that define the gorge are so tall and steep that there are no easy exits from the canyon anywhere along the way. It follows a deep canyon some 5 km long starting from the Lluc area at the heart of the Serra de Tramuntana all the way to the sea, opening on a beautiful sandy beach in the bay of Sa Calobra. The Torrent de Pareis rates amongst one of the most scenic and well known day walk in Mallorca. Passable by children from around 10 yrs old with adequate supervision. Many short scrambles and small climbs over/under/around boulders, no technical passages. Duration: 3 to 5 hours downhill, 4 to 6 hours uphill.ĭifficulty: Medium/High. ![]()
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