From Sant Josep to heaven

It is advisable to wear comfortable shoes, breathable clothes, sunscreen and raincoat if we do the route in autumn or winter. It is important not to forget sunscreen, water and lunch.

The route starts at the Church of San Josep cross the road and take the garden street. When you reach the bar, turn right onto sa Talaia street. This is a cobblestone street flanked on the right by a stone wall. When you leave the street, turn right and take the next dirt road on the right that turns into a narrow path with a white wall on the left that goes into the forest.

When you reach a junction, take the path that goes up to the left, which leads to a forest track and at the end of this, turn right where you will find a sign indicating the path to follow.

This path presents a slope. It continues until a crossroads past the Puig Cardonawhere there is a fence on the right. Take the path that goes to the right parallel to the fence and follow it to a forest track where you will find some television repeaters. From the antennas you can enjoy a panoramic view of almost the entire island.

The route continues along the forest track to the left, after passing the highest point of the island and the geodesic vertex marked with a white cairn. Then follow the path downhill until you reach the next crossroads, where you turn left and take the path called “El camino de la Isla” Camì des Puig Blancuntil you reach a fork that you have to take on the right hand side until the next path on the left hand side by which you go down until you find a path marked with a rock on the left hand side where you can read the inscription ‘Bicis’.

Along this path, which runs between the terraces until you find a path, quite steep, that goes down on the right hand side, marked with white arrows on the ground. Go down until you reach an esplanade and take a path on the left hand side marked by the bTT route 12. You pass a crossroads that you have to follow straight ahead leaving a path on the right.

Continue downhill and at the next crossroads turn left, until the next crossroads where you have to go straight ahead, leaving a path on the left. It is continued descending until arriving to the riverbed of a torrent and then another torrent crossing the road from left to right.

You reach a bend, where you continue straight ahead, leaving a rise on the left. Continue on the main road without deviating until you reach an asphalt road that you must also follow straight ahead until you reach the third road on the left, also asphalt. In front of this road there is a threshing floor.

Continue along the asphalt road that goes up until you find a fence that cuts it and take the dirt road on the left. It continues until a curve in which on the right hand side there is a path little marked that ascends until arriving at a old cultivation areawe have to walk along the left side of the path until the path enters the forest.

When you reach the first crossroads, turn right and when you reach the next crossroads, turn left, leaving a house on the right. Continue down the main path until you reach a crossroads where you take the path on the right that continues downhill until you reach a new crossroads where you turn left.

The route follows the main road until it reaches another crossroads that goes up on the left hand side leaving a well on the left and follow the path until you reach a path on the left ten meters before the entrance of a house. Take it and follow it until you reach the fence where you continue along the first path used in the ascent to sa Talaia but this time back to Sant Josep.

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