Ses Salines and Es Cavallet
To the south of Ibiza Town, stetching from the airport to the sea, are thousands of acres of salts flats. Ibiza's history, and its powerful presence on ancient trade routes, was based on these salts fields (salines), a trade that was vital, above all, to the ancient Carthaginians. Indeed, salt remained an important economic ressource until comparatively recently, the Island's only rail line ran from the middle of the marshes to La Canal, a dock where an enormous container ship would arrive weekly to be loaded with the bright, pinky-white sea salt.
Even now, though tourism brigs in far more money and the rail line has been tron up, salt production continues.
There are 2 beaches aroud there and buses from Ibiza town leave regularly for the more westerly, Ses Salines whose fine white sand arcs around a bay, the crystal-clear waters fringed by pines and dunes. The Beach also has a handful of beach bars, with cool chill-out sounds at Sa Trinxa at the southern end of the sands. From Ses Salines, it's a brief walk around the rocks or along the paths that maze the sand dunes to es Cavallet, a quieter if broadly similar beach that's long been a favourite of gay visitors the dunes behind the beach are well-known cruising area.
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