More Formentera

Our last day in Formentera and spending the day lounging on the beach at Gecko Beach Club. This place is amazing. It´s a luxury hotel and beach club in Formentera. Chill music playing, sun chairs on the lawn, beautiful blue blue water stretching out in front. Adding video.

Thought I would look up and share a little background on Formentera. It´s only 12 miles long, and parts of it have been declared a UNESCO world heritage sight. They make a point not to overly develop the island. As I mentioned no airport, also no high rise buildings, quite a lot of the island is natural parks, and apparently there is some kind of ban on new beachside construction. From what I had read before I came the island has a hippie/bohemian background, but I didn´t see much of it. Where we´re staying in Es Pujols it feels pretty upscale with great restaurants, hotels, gorgeous tan Italians etc – but still a laid back and beachy feeling. Aside from the naked people sprinkled around on the beaches, what it did NOT feel like was hippie. Until last night that is. We went to this place called Blue Bar. It´s right on the beach and was in fact blue, had little alien statues, a night sky mocked up on the roof inside the bar and peace signs sprinkled around. What the deal is with the aliens I´m not quite sure but they´ re funny. I wish I´d taken pictures! Pasting from the internet to give you an idea.

Then today we REALLY found the hippie in Formentera. We heard about a ¨hippie market¨ in La Mola which is another small town up on a cliff. It´s a much quieter town with a couple of cute restaurants and shops – and the famed hippie market every Weds and Sunday. Great food, leather crafts, jewelry, a guy singing, dreadlocks….. Lots of very clean hippies with things to sell.

Will be sad to leave, but next up Mallorca!