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Days 6-8: Ibiza

July 11, 2010 at 7:28 am | Posted in Travel | 4 Comments

Ibiza. Known for it’s gorgeous white beaches and more so for its summer nightlife, Ibiza does not disappoint.

The nightlife is centered around the two towns of Ibiza Town and San Antonio. I stayed in a small hotel in the latter, which, rumor has it, is the less expensive, more lively area more suitable for English speaking students. I spent part of a day in Ibiza Town, and enjoyed San Antonio a lot more. It had a more familiar feeling. Its roads were small, uncluttered, and more like pedestrian walkways. It took just 15 minutes to walk from one end of the town to another.

Despite my reservations, I found people to be very friendly and easy to talk to. Most tourists are actually English — I met no more than four fellow Americans.

The nightlife is exactly as you read about in Ibiza travel guides. People get dinner at 9pm and then hit the bars, before going to the clubs, staying up all the way until 6am. Something interesting I found was how attuned to the club music everyone was. Coming from the US and not really being into the the club scene, I didn’t really know much about the listed artists, but the Europeans certainly knew who was playing in each club, and what kind of music there would be.

But not everything in Ibiza is about the nightlife. In fact, it is as just as easy to be completely removed from the music and partying as it is to be enraptured by it. Saturday, tired from staying up the nights before and not wanting to oversleep my flight today, I took a slow day, went to the sunset area in San Antonio (which is conveniently on the west side of the island), and watched the sunset. When the sun disappeared, everyone cheered.