Mallorca walking holidays

5 best hikes in Mallorca in a small guided group

Walking through the most mountainous and beautiful area of Mallorca. Includes 7 nights in a small charming hotel in Puerto de Soller, breakfast and dinner included.
Enjoy the 5 best hikes in Mallorca, the most iconic tours of Serra de Tramuntana, in a guided group.  With all the necessary transfers, including arrival and departure.

1.- Deia, heading Port de Sóller

2.- From Cuber to Port de Sóller

3.- From Port de Sóller to Cala Tuent, and back by boat

4.- Around Valle de Sóller

5.- The Cami de S’Arxiduc walk

Group size:    min. guaranteed 6 / max. 14 Persons

Duration:       8 days

Hotel:    Hotel Marina Sóller (Port de Sóller)

Difficulty:   

with 7 nights hotel stay

Rediscovering Mallorca

Mallorca was an early starter in beach tourism. It was the pioneer island of charter flights and developed like no other an industry that has spawned large hotel consortiums, today present all over the world.

But tourism trends have changed over the last decades. Although sun and beach tourism is still important, new visitors are demanding all kinds of experiences. And perhaps the most natural of all is walking. 

Hiking in Mallorca has experienced a real boom in recent decades. The island’s best kept natural secrets were waiting to be rediscovered in the phenomenal Serra de Tramuntana.

The Serra de Tramuntana mountain range

The winding roads leading to small villages in the west, sheltered by a majestic mountain range, kept the tourist masses away for years. But the growing interest in nature and the awakening of hiking as a new tourist activity opened up this hidden side of Mallorca to the new tourist minorities.   

Villages such as Sóller, Deià or Valldemosa have managed to maintain all their original charm and today you can stay in small charming hotels. And from there, you can embark on the most iconic hiking routes in Mallorca, through the Serra de Tramuntana.

Best hikes in Mallorca

Our programme of 5 best hikes in Mallorca concentrates on the Serra de Tramuntana, starting or finishing in Puerto de Sóller. Except for the last walk, which is a circular tour around Valldemosa. 

These are routes with a medium/high level of difficulty, suitable for people who hike regularly.

Island nature

February and March are the months of almond and orange blossom. The fields are full of exquisite colours and fragrances. The weather is mild and suitable for walking without the excessive heat of summer. And the sea, although cold, is suitable for swimming. 

Sóller, the little train and the port. A bit of history

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that Sóller began to shake off the traditional isolation that the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range had imposed on it.

With great effort, a tunnel was built under the mountain range through which the island’s first railway connected Sóller with the world. And it was the “Sóller Oranges” that brought about this infrastructure. The curative powers of vitamin C had just been discovered and the city was ready to pay for this oranges, wherever they were produced. The work began in 1905 and was completed in 1912. And so it was that Sóller entered the world, hand in hand with the “Orange Express “.

Some time later, a tram line was inaugurated between Sóller and its port for the transport of fruit and vegetables and shipment to other destinations.

But it was not until the end of the 1990s that road traffic connected Sóller with the road network of Mallorca via the new 3.14 km long “Túnel de Sóller”. This engineering work crosses under the Sierra de Alfábia mountain range and makes it possible to bypass the “Coll de Sóller”, a high mountain pass along a winding road full of curves.