I want to issue
a WARNING
As
I recall more and more NOW, why I came to Ibiza, in 1969:
Avoid
your visit during the summer months of July and August - if
you can!
It
is hot, noisy, garbage piles up, it smells badly from the
water purification plants. There are traffic jams, no parking
places but thieves and pickpockets from most major European
cities at work. All locals being at work anyway, feels stressed
out and overtired from the seasonally propelled demand for
service, supply ,etc. and too many drinks at parties do the
rest. Your waiters, cooks, the DJs, taxi driver, the animateurs
in the clubs and resorts experience the near collapse then.
The
biggest and busiest tourist areas to be avoided then are:
Eivissa town: Figueretas, Playa den Bossa, Talamanca,
Salinas and Es Cavallet (nudist beach), Cala Yundal,
Sant Antoni: Port des Torrent, Cala Tarida, Cala Vadella,
Cala Conta and the rest of the bays!
Sant Josep: Es Vedra, es Cubells, Cala D’Hort
Santa Eularia: Siesta, Cala Llonga, Es Cana, Es Figueral,
Agua Blanca
Sant Joan: Benirras, Portinatx, Puerto Sant Miquel,
Cala Sant Vicent.
The biggest, busiest and loudest Discotheques are:
In or around Eivissa-city: Privilege, Pacha, Amnesia, Space
In San Antoni: Es Paradis, Eden and the complete West-End
with bars and pubs are a thread to good taste and your physical
health when caught into pub crawling activities promoted by
tourists from the UK,
Most discos and Bars are only open from mid June to mid September,
just for the clubbers, pimps, gays, motobikers.
TOURISM
INDUSTRY is now fully reigning the social, cultural,
architectonical and last not least the economical aspect of
today. How a movement involving living beings can be named
industry is an insult to human life itself. To me it shows
similarity to the industry of cattle, which peaked in BSE
and foot and mouth disease lately. As this industry is handling
human needs during their most precious time of the year, their
“holy” days, in such an impersonal way is a contradiction
by itself. Nearly 1,5 million tourists come yearly to Eivissa!
This is mass tourism in its perfection.
The
quietest areas (even in the peak season) are in the northern
part of the island. You will have to spend time and energy
to find them yourself...
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