Ses Balandres is a rocky cove with a very small beach on the western seaboard of the Spanish island of Ibiza.

To reach it you must negotiate a rickety wooden ladder[3] and then clamber down a rocky slope[3] with the help of a rope installed by the local fishermen.

Visitors will understand why once they have made this tricky descent as the cove is a secluded, spectacular place.

Once at the shoreline the horseshoe shaped cove’s cliffs tower above the very small strip of sand and pebbles.

Surprisingly, given the difficulty in getting here, local fishermen have built sheds and slipways here,[4] by building simple walls across the natural caves at the base of these cliffs.