MALLORCA · BALEARIC ISLANDS
Slow trains, hidden coves, the cliffs that drop straight in.
Day trips and tours across Mallorca. Palma, Sóller, the Tramuntana villages, the cave lakes and the calas in between.
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The Mallorca everyone leaves talking about.
The single tour with more reviews than anything else on the island. Worth doing on the first day, so the rest of the trip has a bar to clear.
The classics
Mallorca’s Most Popular Day Tours
Palma Cathedral, Caves of Drach, the catamaran days, the cliff drives. The trips travellers come back from talking about.
Only in Mallorca
Three things you can’t do anywhere else.
Catamarans, helicopters, snorkelling — every Mediterranean island sells them. These three are particular to Mallorca. The cave concert, the wooden train, the road that drops 400m to the Mediterranean.
Underground concert
The Cave-Lake Concert
Eight kilometres of limestone passages open into Lake Martel — one of the largest underground lakes in Europe. Four classical musicians cross it in a lit gondola while you watch from a stone amphitheatre carved out in 1935 for exactly this. Daily, except very rough days at sea.
- 1 Mallorca: Caves of Drach Day Trip & Optional Caves of Hams
- 2 Palma: Caves of Drach Entrance, Music Concert, and Boat Trip
- 3 Caves of Drach Half-Day Tour with Boat Trip and Music Concert
1912 narrow-gauge
Sóller’s Wooden Train
Built in 1912 to ship oranges out of the Sóller valley. Twenty-seven kilometres of original wooden carriages through the Tramuntana — thirteen tunnels, a viaduct, then a 19th-century electric tram down to the port. No timetable upgrade since the 1940s, and that’s the point.
- 1 Soller: Sa Calobra & Cala Tuent Speedboat Tour
- 2 Sóller: Boat Trip to Sa Calobra and Torrent de Pareis
- 3 Mallorca: Valldemossa & Soller Tour
The island’s edge
Driving Cap de Formentor
The 13km switchback road to the lighthouse at Mallorca’s northernmost point — a 1925 engineering job by Antonio Parietti, the same engineer who carved the road down to Sa Calobra. From Mirador d’Es Colomer the cliffs drop 400 metres straight into the Mediterranean. End of the road: the lighthouse, alone on the cape.
- 1 Alcudia: Formentor Beach, Lighthouse Cruise, and Small Group
- 2 Cap de Formentor: Market, Beach, and Alcudia Tour
- 3 Alcudia: Boat Trip to Cap de Formentor and Formentor
By place
Pick a corner of Mallorca.
Each corner is its own day. Palma for the city. Sóller for the wooden train. Valldemossa for the mountain quiet. Formentor for the lighthouse drive. Porto Cristo for the cave lakes.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Catamaran if you want the turquoise. Quad bike if you want to climb the goat tracks. Sailing, snorkelling, kayak through a sea cave, ride the wooden train, an afternoon in the vineyard. The island answers.
Out on the water
Catamaran days.
Cala-hopping with a swim ladder, lunch on deck, the engines cut so you can hear the water against the hull. If we had to pick three catamarans, these are the ones we’d book.
Inland Mallorca
The vineyard afternoon.
The Romans planted vines here; the island has been making wine ever since. Today Mallorca’s Manto Negro and Prensal Blanc earn their own DO. Our shortlist for an afternoon in the cellars.
Two wheels on the Tramuntana
Why the pros winter here.
Quiet roads, switchbacks, sea-level climbs to 1,000m, and lunch in a Sóller orange grove afterwards. Sa Calobra is on every road cyclist’s list for a reason. Three Mallorca rides to start with.
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