Formentera is a small island south-east of Ibiza and well worth a visit.
It can be explored in a day as at its longest point it is only 20 km long. Most visitors come over from Ibiza as a day excursion.
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One of the Balearic islands belonging to Spain, you can only get to Formentera by ferry as there is no airport.
The good thing about this is that it means the island is not overrun by mass tourism despite having some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean.
Just look at the amazing footage in the video below:
Best Beaches
Indeed having been to the Caribbean many times I can honestly say that some of the beaches near Illetes rival any of the Caribbean beaches I’ve been to.
Without question the best way to see the island is to hire a scooter for the day, we got a discounted rate of €15 for scooter hire on Formentera from the Ulises Cat ferry company that brought us across.
We boarded the ferry at Playa de Figueretes and paid €20 return each.
The glass bottomed ferry then goes 10 minutes down the coast to pick up more passengers at Playa d’en Bossa.
Then over the shallow waters to the harbour at La Savina taking just 35 minutes.
Getting to Formentera – La Savina
La Savina is the port of Formentera. There is no airport so this is the gateway for the island with ferries arriving from Ibiza (from Ibiza Town, San Antonio and Santa Eularia) and the Spanish mainland (from Denia).
The port is busy in July when there are regattas held here during the time of the fiestas held in honour of the patron saint virgin of sailors, Virgen del Carmen.
Formentera is shaped like a dumbbell and it narrows to a width of less than a kilometre in the middle. At each end of the island are two remote lighthouses on rocky headlands with dense pine forests.
The island’s capital is Sant Francesc.
The island is relatively flat full of fields and if you see circles of stones they are likely to be the remains of charcoal burners which produced the lime used t