Majorca - La Calobra Torrent de Pareis

A little to the east of Gorch Blau the road known as La Calobra (the "Snake") goes off on the left and descends through wild and romantic scenery, with many bends, to the coast far below. It is well engineered but testing for the driver. Near the top, in what is known as the Nus de la Corbeta ("knot in the tie"), it turns through an angle of 270 degrees and passes under itself. It then continues down past labyrinthine rock formations and great monolithic pinnacles to the Cala de Calobra, a little cove enclosed by steep cliffs. From here it is a few minutes' walk to the narrow gorge of the Torrent de Pareis, which reaches the sea in a wide rock basin.