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Maó to Cala Morell
The Wild North
The most dramatic and demanding half of the route — reddish sandstone cliffs, remote pebble coves, the Cap de Favàritx lighthouse on its slate headland, and the trail's highest point at Binidelfà.
Self-guided · Menorca, Spain
Camí de Cavalls
Your walk around the coast of Menorca.
184 kilometres, a full loop of the island, on the medieval horseman's path that connects every cove and clifftop. Bags moved between hotels, GPX for every day, and a bed booked in a good place each night.
- Distance
- 184 km
- Ascent
- 2,400 m
- Stages
- 4 – 8 days
- Grade
- Moderate
The Camí de Cavalls — the 'way of the horses' — is Menorca's ancient coastal path, first laid down in the 14th century so mounted patrols could reach every corner of the island. It now traces a complete 184-kilometre circuit past turquoise coves, prehistoric talayotic sites and whitewashed fishing villages, with the Mediterranean rarely out of sight.
It is not a hard walk in the alpine sense — the highest point is only 125 metres — but the terrain is rocky and the sun is strong. The reward is a walk where every afternoon can end with a swim in impossibly clear water, and every evening with fresh fish in a small harbour restaurant. Outside the summer crush, it's a genuinely warm place to be walking when much of Europe has packed away its boots.
Trail Essentials
Start
Maó
Menorca
End
Maó
Menorca
Distance
184 km
114 miles
Total Ascent
2,400 m
7,874 ft
Difficulty
Moderate
Hilliness
Rolling
Time to Complete
Explorer
10 days
~18 km/day
Hiker
8 days
~23 km/day
Fastpacker
7 days
~26 km/day
Trail Runner
5 days
~37 km/day
When to Walk
Best Good Avoid
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
How the trail unfolds.
The Camí divides naturally into three parts — wild north coast first, historic Ciutadella in the middle, then the softer, sandier south back to Maó.
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Cala Morell to Cap d'Artrutx
Ciutadella and the West
A rest day in Menorca's medieval former capital, then south along dry-stone-walled tracks and Bronze Age hypogea to the black-banded lighthouse at the island's south-west corner.
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Cap d'Artrutx to Maó
The Southern Beaches
Softer country back to Maó — pine-fringed calas, the long sands of Son Bou, prehistoric necropolises above the sea, and the whitewashed fishing village of Binibèquer Vell.
Build your trip
Customise your Camí de Cavalls.
Pick your pace, party size and dates. The itinerary, distances, nightly stops and the price all update live — no commitment until you're happy.
- Days sized to your walking speed
- Each night ends at a stop with accommodation
- Pricing reflects party size and seasonality
- Save and share the itinerary with your group
Hiker · 4.0 km/h
2 walkers
Maó → Favàritx → Ciutadella → Maó
Days
7
Distance
184 km
Walking
56 hrs
Your day-by-day itinerary updates live in the Your itinerary section below.
Trip total
£2,058
£1,029 per person · 7 nights · party of 2
Build your itinerary above.
This is the itinerary you're building. Change the pace, party size or start date in the planner above and every stage, distance and date updates here.
This route. These nights.
One clear price.
You are booking the itinerary above: your walking days, your overnight stays and the support that carries you between them.
Your Camí de Cavalls adventure
Configure your trip in the builder above and it will appear here.
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Trip Total
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Deposit Today
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Organising this trail for friends? Build a group trip with individual payments
- Full refund if unhappy with any changes
- Confirmation within a few days
- ABTOT financially protected
Not quite ready?
We'll start planning your trip right away. Not happy with anything? We'll adjust it or refund you — no questions asked.
The Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT) provides financial protection under The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 for Big Trail Adventures (member 5690). Protection is provided for non-flight packages. Full details in our booking conditions.
And that price covers far more than the places you sleep.
Your Camí de Cavalls is planned from first step to final check-in. The stays, luggage, navigation, local knowledge and a real team behind you are all part of the same trip.
What's included?
Self-guided, but properly supported. You turn up, you walk, you eat well, you sleep well. We handle the logistics.
A full loop of Menorca's coast — 184 km, waymarked the whole way.
Hotels, agroturismos and small guesthouses booked each night with breakfast.
Bags moved hotel-to-hotel, so you walk with a daypack.
Custom door-to-door GPX and Big Trail Adventures app.
Not included
- Flights to Menorca and the transfer from Menorca Airport
- Lunches and evening meals (we'll recommend the best places)
- Travel insurance
Your Trail Book.
The trip in your pocket.
This is not a generic guidebook. We build a private Trail Companion for your dates, your direction, your overnight stops and every day of your Camí de Cavalls.
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Trail Book
08:12
Wake up knowing the whole day
Your exact Camí de Cavalls itinerary — from the place you sleep to the next front door, with the turns people miss and the stops worth making.
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Trail Book
13:36
See the trail respond to your pace
Follow your stage offline, see what remains and get a live estimate based on the pace you are actually walking. Your GPX is already cut into each day, ready for Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Apple Watch, Komoot or OS Maps.
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Trail Book
14:32
Let home follow the adventure
Family and friends see where you are and when you last updated — no app, no account.
Where you'll stay
Hotels and farmhouses right on the route.
Small hotels, agroturismos on old farm estates, and family-run guesthouses — all walker-friendly, all with breakfast. In Ciutadella there's plenty of choice; in the smaller coves, we book the good places as soon as your dates are set.
- Sobrasada and local cheese at breakfast
- Ciutadella as a natural rest-day stop
- Transfers arranged for the roadless coves
- Book ahead for March–June and September–October
Every trip is planned around your dates and party, so we can't promise you a specific inn — but we can promise the kind of welcome that makes a walking holiday feel like a proper holiday.
Self-guided, fully supported
A self-guided Camí de Cavalls, explained.
Self-guided means the walking is yours and the logistics are ours. You set off on the Camí de Cavalls when you want, walk at whatever pace suits you, and stop where you like — there is no group to keep up with and no leader setting the schedule. Everything that makes an independent long-distance walk hard work to organise is handled before you arrive.
There are no fixed departure dates. Choose your own start day, tell us how many nights you want, and the planner rebuilds the 184 km route around it.
- You walk
- 184 km from Maó to Maó, Menorca — alone, as a pair, or with your own group. No guide, no strangers.
- We plan
- A 4 – 8 day itinerary built around the pace you pick, with sensible daily distances and the ascent spread properly across the route.
- We book
- Walker-friendly B&Bs, inns and small hotels along the trail, reserved in your name with breakfast included.
- We move your bag
- Door-to-door luggage transfer between every stay, so you walk with a daypack.
- You navigate
- GPX files for every stage plus written route notes — the trail is waymarked, and we flag the few places people go wrong.
- We stay reachable
- One number for the whole trip, answered by someone who has walked the route.
Your trail, whether you come alone or bring everyone.
We remove the awkward parts at both ends: quiet reassurance for a solo walker, and no unpaid-invoice chasing for the friend who gets a group moving.
Going solo
Independent, not unsupported.
We lend solo walkers a satellite GPS tracker. It updates automatically, even away from phone signal, so you can walk freely while the people at home follow your progress.
- Fixes your position from satellites, not phone masts
- Posts automatically every 30 minutes — nothing to remember
- Keeps working in the glens, on the cliffs and out of signal
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Bringing friends
Lead the adventure. Don't become the treasurer.
Plan a private Camí de Cavalls with us and get one shared trip page. Every walker pays their own deposit by card and adds their own details—no bank transfers or payment spreadsheet.
Trail Companion and satellite tracking comparison
Shares your position over the mobile network. You update it when you want to. Needs a phone signal to send anythingGroups of six or more
Bringing a group? Everyone pays their own share.
Book the Camí de Cavalls as a private group departure and we'll give you your own trip page. One organiser agrees the trip with us; every walker then pays their own deposit by card and fills in their own details. No collecting bank transfers, no spreadsheet of who's paid.
Things walkers ask us.
How fit do I need to be?
The elevation is modest — nothing above 125 metres — but the days are long and the ground is rocky. Comfortable walking on 20 km days with a daypack is the right baseline for the Hiker pace of seven days. The Explorer pace spreads the same route over eight days with more time on the beaches.
When should I walk it?
March through June and September to October are the best months — warm but comfortable, wildflowers in spring, warm sea in autumn. July and August are hot and busy; winter walking is possible but some rural hotels and buses run reduced services.
Do you include luggage transfer?
Yes — one bag per person moved between hotels each day so you walk with a light daypack. On the sections where the trail ends in a remote cove with no road access (Favàritx, Binimel·là, Camí des Alocs, Cala Morell, Cala en Porter, Binibèquer) we arrange a transfer to your accommodation and back to the trail the next morning.
What kind of accommodation do you book?
A mix of small hotels, agroturismos on old farm estates, and family-run guesthouses — all walker-friendly, all with breakfast. In Ciutadella there's more choice; in the smaller stops the good options fill early, so we book as soon as your dates are set.
Can I walk it solo?
Yes, and many do. The trail is well waymarked with wooden posts, distances between stops are manageable, and there are always other walkers around in season. A single supplement covers single-occupancy rooms.
What's the realistic total cost?
The seven-day Hiker package starts around £1,260 per person (£180 pp per night × 7 nights). On top of that: flights to Menorca (cheap and frequent from the UK in season), the airport transfer, lunches, evening meals and drinks, plus any extra nights you add at the start or end.
Is this a self-guided Camí de Cavalls walking holiday?
Yes. Every Camí de Cavalls trip we run is self-guided: you walk the route on your own, at your own pace, with no group and no guide. We do the planning and the logistics — an itinerary of 4 – 8 days built around the pace you choose, accommodation booked in your name along the 184 km route, your main bag moved between stays each day, GPX files and route notes for every stage, and a real person on the end of the phone while you're out there. You choose your own start date; there are no fixed departures.
What's the difference between a self-guided and a guided Camí de Cavalls trip?
On a guided trip you walk with a leader and a group to a fixed schedule. Self-guided means the day is yours: start when you like, stop for lunch where you like, walk fast or slowly, take a rest day. The route is waymarked and you navigate with the GPX and notes we provide. Everything that makes a trip complicated — accommodation, luggage transfer, the shape of each day — is arranged for you before you arrive.
Can I walk the Camí de Cavalls without a guide?
Yes — the Camí de Cavalls is a signed long-distance route and thousands of people walk it independently every year. What most walkers want help with isn't navigation, it's the 184 km of accommodation, the bag transfers, and getting the daily distances right. That's exactly what we take off your hands, while you still walk it under your own steam.
Who books the accommodation and moves my luggage?
We do, both. We book walker-friendly B&Bs, inns and small hotels in your name at each overnight stop, with breakfast, and arrange door-to-door luggage transfer between them so you walk with a daypack. You'll get a full itinerary with every address, check-in detail and transfer time before you travel.
How many days do I need for a self-guided Camí de Cavalls?
Most people take 4 – 8 days for the 184 km. Our planner lets you set your own pace and number of nights, so you can stretch the trip out with shorter days or compress it if you're used to back-to-back big days — the itinerary, accommodation stops and price all update as you change it.
Not sure how many days to give it?
Seven days is the sweet spot — long enough to get into the rhythm of the island, short enough to keep the days a sensible length. If you want more swimming and fewer big days, take eight. Book March–May or September–October if you can; July heat makes the exposed cliff sections much harder than the numbers suggest.
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