Sa Calobra & Torrent de Pareis: Day trip on Mallorca

It is essential to arrive in Sa Calobra before 10 a.m., says every guide book, so that you don’t find yourself in the middle of the big avalanche of coaches. Be sure to go again after 3 pm, otherwise you will experience the same thing back. Sa Calobra and the famous gorge Torrent de Pareis are well visited. All the more so in high summer, when Mallorca is bursting at the seams. Nevertheless, the Torrent de Pareis is always worth a trip during a Mallorca road trip! If you don’t want to drive, save yourself the journey through the Tramuntana and start with a boat trip from Port de Sóller to the bay of Sa Calobra.

Sa Calobra Torrent de Pareis Restaurant
In Sa Calobra there are a few restaurants, but relatively expensive and rather tourist traps. But the view is awesome!

Sa Calobra & the Torrent de Pareis: A day trip in Mallorca

On an island like Mallorca, the beach of Sa Calobra Bay is not particularly noteworthy: the pebbles do make a beach day there a bit uncomfortable. But that’s not why you come here! Because the Torrent de Pareis is a torrent that flows right here through a deep gorge from the Tramuntana Mountains into the sea. However, only during the colder and rainier seasons – in summer the Torrent de Pareis is dry. Then you can also walk through the gorge of Torrent de Pareis. However, you need good hiking equipment and a guide who knows the area!

Sa Calobra bay at Torrent de Pareis Mallorca

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Torrent de Pareis in Sa Calobra Mallorca sign

Torrent de Pareis: Hiking tours and concerts

The spacious area at the end of Torrent de Pareis often hosts concerts in the summer, with shuttle service to Palma. The sound: Bose couldn’t do it better. Without a concert, the Torrent de Pareis is rather inconspicuous. If you arrive without hiking equipment and a local guide, the more exciting part of the gorge (where it gets narrow and steep and bumpy) is impassable. So there you are, standing on heated pebbles, between rocks and what feels like two hundred and fifty busloads of tourists from all over the world, who actually don’t know what they’re supposed to find so great about a parched spot between the mountains.

Tip: If you want to explore Torrent de Pareis, don’t do it without a guide!

Sa Calobra Torrent de Pareis Mallorca
Torrent de Pareis also often hosts open-air events.

And yet, it’s spectacular. Not only the gorge Torrent de Pareis, not only Sa Calobra and not even the turquoise blue water in the Cala de Sa Calobra.

Sa Calobra Mallorca road through Tramuntana mountains

Many serpentines and the tie knot of Mallorca

The real adventure is getting there! Coming by car from Inca, you shimmy through various mountain villages, up, down, up, down, and winding through dense forest. Until your foot cramps on the clutch from constantly shifting up and down. Until you get dizzy from the many curves and long for at least twenty meters of dead straight asphalt. Actually, that would be enough excitement, but then the last wild descent begins. In hairpin curves it goes up the last hill and then …steeply downhill. In curves, tight, tightest. No guardrails. Slopes into the deep void. No view of what’s waiting around the bend. Nothing? Oncoming traffic? A giant tour bus that fills the entire width of the street?

Tramutana mountains serpentines Mallorca road trip
The view during the drive to Sa Calobra: The Tramuntana Mountains in Mallorca.
Sa Calobra Mallorca road serpentines Tramuntana mountains
Rough and adventurous: the northeast coast of Mallorca.

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Sa Calobra: The most winding approach to Mallorca

The serpentine road to Sa Calobra is not fun for every driver. But an adventure it is all the same! And once down in Sa Calobra, the Torrent de Pareis looks a lot more spectacular. You suddenly feel tiny in the face of the huge gorge.

Sa Calobra Torrent de Pareis road serpentines Mallorca
Only something for safe drivers: The serpentines down to the Torrent de Pareis have it in themselves!
Sa Calobra Torrent de Pareis beach rocks
No shade, giant pebbles – but the huge rocks on the right and left make the beach of Sa Calobra unique

The winding road above is really the only way to get to Sa Calobra by land. However, if you are not so adventurous, you can take a boat from Soller. Round trip costs 30 euros together.

Without car to Sa Calobra

By bus

If you don’t dare to go down to Sa Calobra by car, then join a bus tour! There are some operators who include Sa Calobra in really nice day trips and where you get to know many other beautiful corners of the island in just one day.

This tour, for example, also includes a ride on the legendary Red Lightning, the historic wooden train from Palma to Sóller! This ticket alone normally costs 18 euros, so the price of the tour is worth it!

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By boat

There are also some organized boat tours that go to the bay of Sa Calobra from surrounding ports. There you also have the opportunity to see the Torrent de Pareis during a short stay.

Timetable & prices to Sa Calobra from Port de Sóller

Sa Calobra Torrent de Pareis boat from Soller
From Soller you can take a boat to Sa Calobra.

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