Off the beaten track the Balearic Islands still host an abundance of wildlife. And in spring the miracle of life unfolds in all its beauty. The Mallorcan filmmaker Rubén Casas Oché captured some of the secrets in wonderful pictures. With the corona crisis he decided to share the first part of his new TV-series Secretos Salvajes de Baleares – Primavera – on Youtube. So if you cannot go hiking or can’t even come to the Balearics right now his Wild Secrets of the Balearic Islands whisk you away…

Time and again the Tramuntana surprises me with its many different characters. Untamed nature with high rocky peaks, giant water reservoirs and hidden coves by the sea. Cultivated landscape with terraced hillsides, ancient olive groves…

The old route that once connected Port de Valldemossa and Deià is rather a walk than a hike. On the way to Sa Foradada you pass terraced vineyards and olive groves, and abandoned plots with donkeys in the shadow of orange and pine trees. And…

Looking up at the Sóller mountain ridge it is hard to imagine how you can ever climb Es Cornadors. The highest mountain top is a steep rocky triangle that seems rather unaccessible. I had thought just the same about the North route up Puig de…