Scuba Diving in Ibiza

Scuba diving in Ibiza is one of the top sporting activities that is undertaken during the holidays. Known for its fantastic Ibiza clubs and excellent nightlife, which is one of the main reasons tourists come to the Island. But Ibiza has a lot more fun and experiences to see and do. Ibiza is surrounded by water which makes it obvious that water sport activities would be a popualr activity. Scuba diving is one of the top sports in the world that gives you a chance to enter a new atmosphere without putting on a space suite. Ibiza has a selection of dive centers around the Island and all use the techniques and teaching methods from PADI.

Within just a few days you can be diving the seas around Ibiza, starting in a pool or a shallow bay you will learn these new skills that will stay with you all your life. Once you have achieved the open water course you can literately dive an where in the world.

Ibiza is a great place to learn because of the super calm seas and perfect water temperatures and air temperatures. A dive center in San Antonio called Arenal Diving have some of the PADI 5 star resort center with an excellent selection of helpful staff that speak an array of different languages.

Learning to scuba dive or already know how to scuba dive, Arenal Diving can transport you to some of the best dive spots around the Island with full guides. They are open from May until October offering a whole range of diving tours, lessons and dive trips.

Check our more about diving in Ibiza at Arenal Diving.

Booking Sooner than later on Ibiza

Book Early on Ibiza

Ibiza has been a top destination in Europe for over two decades and every season the Island fills up with tourists from all over the world to experience some of Ibiza's great nightlife and white sandy beaches.

When you have eyed Ibiza up as your next holiday destination or you are planning on returning to the Island for a holiday, bare in mind that there are certain villas and hotels that get booked a lot earlier, almost six months earlier because the availability of those properties gets taken very fast.Keeping that Ibiza dream holiday in your mind and then deciding last minute to book is not a good idea. Some of the best hotels and villas get booked early and there is a reason for that. The reason is the best accommodation gets booked fast because its well known and its most likely in a excellent location along with great reviews on Tripadvisor.

Booking early can also save money as many owners of villas like to get the bookings done before the new year and at least six months in advance for the coming season. So villa owners do drop the price for those early bookings. You can see all these villas here are all direct to owners.

Hotels do early bird booking, giving sometimes a huge discount of 30% on hotel rooms. In the long run this can save you money and more to enjoy when you are on your holiday in Ibiza.

The Island is popular for weddings and this is another thing that has to be booked early in order to get all the right services and the right wedding venue.The wedding venues on Ibiza already are taking bookings for 2014. The wedding industry on Ibiza has grown and services that are offered are doubling each year, but you still need to book well in advance.

Hiring a car on Ibiza, then they also offer great discounts on booking early! You can hire scooters, cars or even a jeep and all can come with a huge discount if you book early. In fact almost anything you can book online for 2013 summer season on Ibiza you could save a good percentage on.

 

Planning a beach wedding

Planning a beach wedding may be one of the most romantic challenges in a life time; great scenery, natural decorations, originality and non-conformism of the location are among the main features of such an event. But what are the exact particularities of planning a beach wedding in Ibiza? What are you up against in an exotic location? A sure fact is that you'll probably need some expert advice for planning a beach wedding since there are special considerations to be analyzed. Even the choice of the wedding dress and the shoes is closely related to the location.
None of these is easy and on top of it you have quite some large costs to deal with; therefore try to include everything on your top priority list of planning a beach wedding. The best way to have the ceremonial performed is under a wedding arch dripping with fresh season flowers that will focus the attention on the bride and the groom. The decorations of the arch have to be done the day before the wedding or early that very morning so that they remain fresh. Many of the couples who are planning a beach wedding choose an exquisite moment for the ceremonial, such as the sunset.
 Moreover, when planning a beach wedding, don't even consider placing chairs directly on sand, since they will sink, thus being highly uncomfortable for your guests. For more details on planning a wedding have a look at Ibiza Weddings  to discover the secrets for a perfect day.

Playa Bella Apartments new splash pool

Playa Bella have recently installed a spalsh pool for the children. These apartments are known as a great family holiday apartments in San Antonio. Located right on the beach with swimmingpools, restaurants and bars these apartments fullfill every holiday maker. Playa Bella are now catering more for the children than ever before and with the new splash pool it makes it perfect for the parents to relax while the children play in safe enviroment.

If you are interested in booking Playa Bella Apartments then take a look at the new website Playa Bella

TOP 5 Diving Spots on Ibiza

EAST COAST TOP 5 Diving Spots

DON PEDRO: A must dive for all certified divers with at least the Advanced Open Water certification. This monster of the deep is recognised as one of the biggest wrecks in Europe. At a maximum depth of 38 metres this dive will rock your world. Deep, big and full of life what more could you want.

FISH FACTORY: By far the best dive in Ibiza for fish life and water clarity has to be the Fish Factory or La Mariana in Formentera. This dive is deep but the water is so clear and full of Barracuda in numbers that is hard to fathom. A maximum depth of 33 metres this sunken platform has been on the top dive list of Ibiza for years and guarantees happiness from all that dive it.

DADO PEQUEÑO: This island may be small but the amount or diversity you can find on it is mind blowing. Apart from schools of hunting barracudas you will find here large shoals of damsel fish and Amberjacks which can grow up to about 80cm. Dado Pequeño maxs out around 30 metres like most of the island dives and has areas for every level of divers to enjoy.

LLADO SUR: Like most of the islands dotted around Ibiza it is exposed to the elements and on a good day can be a dive that will blow your socks off. With a swim through from one side of the island to the other this dive has it all. When conditions are right it is best to dive here in the mornings to get there before the crowd. It is common to have 3 or 4 dive schools fighting for the best mooring spot on any given day.

THE CATHEDRAL: This dive located at the mouth of Cala Llonga bay is both easy and spectacular. A huge cavern opens up after swimming through the mouth of this cave at 12 metres. Slowly surface inside the cave and you will find a huge air pocket with clean air and stalactites. The dive doesn't finish there if you want you can go around the Pulpit and into the Chapel. This part of the dive is only for divers with a good level and a torch is recommended to see the Cathedral in all its heavenly glory.

Like all dives in Ibiza you have to plan your dives with the wind and sea conditions in mind. Very rarely do you find currents because there is no tide in the Mediterranean but it is advised to dive with a dive centre that can organise dives depending on your level.

See more on Ibiza Diving and for accommodation look at Hotels on Ibiza

Romantic holiday in Ibiza

Are you looking for a nice romantic holiday in Ibiza? Sit under the stars, watch beautiful sunsets, wine and dine in exotic restaurants. Ibiza has a wide selection of beautiful hotels to accommodate you and your love, for all budgets you can stay in some real Spanish style places. Popular for young couples, in love is to rent a Spanish villa for a week or more. The Island of Ibiza has thousands of villas all over the Island ranging from super luxury to a reasonable budget. Stay in a nice private villa with all the facilities you need including your own swimming pool. It’s a perfect scenario for any couple in love. See Ibiza Villas for a wide choice of villas for rent during the summer.
If hotels are your fancy and you want pure luxury then Ibiza has some great hotels for a romantic holiday, 4 stars and 5 star hotels on Ibiza meet the requirements of most people who stay on the Island and shopping around you should find a great deal. The Island is not short of budget styled hotels and hostels and some of these places are suitable for all and come with a good price as well.
If shopping is what you and your lover like doing then Ibiza town offers some great shops and trendy boutiques along with that the Island has some excellent markets, like the famous hippy market every Wednesday in the resort of Es Cana.
Eating and drinking are most popular for couples and the Island has beautiful selection of great restaurants all over the Island, El Pato, Bambuddha, Cas Pages are just some top named restaurants that will fill every sense with beautiful ambience and romantic vibe not to mention the fantastic cuisine.
And when the time comes then getting married on Ibiza is another trendy thing to do. The Island has plenty of services to fill your dreams and have an Ibiza wedding.

History of Ibiza

Thanks to the global news networks and their educational style of presentation there must be few who need an explication of the workings of the tectonic plaques which make up the earth's crust. In the same way it should not be necessary to give detailed explanations of the fact that the fault lines where these plates meet and exert tremendous forces are where the molten mass of the earth's core breaks out as volcanoes. Neither is it arcane knowledge that this same pressure along fault lines causes one plate to slide up over another or both to push upwards against each other, so forming hills and mountains. Should this process occur upon the sea-bed the tip of the mountain will appear above water as an island. Often both volcanic and upward pressure forcing occur together in the formation of such islands. Until recently the volcanic folding, which is particularly visible along the Santa Eulalia cliffs opposite the island of 'Tagomago' right along to the beach of Cala San Vicente, was ignored or explained away as conglomerate stratus forced into the undulating forms by lateral pressure when pushed up from ancient sea-beds in a malleable state. However, in the last decade a survey for the laying of a gas pipeline from the peninsular to Ibiza upset the academic status quo by revealing a large dormant volcano only 40 kilometers from the coast of San Antonio.

Another folkloric myth that could often be hear cited as scientific fact some thirty to forty years ago when the author arrived in Ibiza was that the Balearic islands were an extension of the Pyrenees mountain chain, including the myth of certain springs as arriving along the rock stratification's from these high mountains in the manner of subterranean aqueducts. The need to know just what is below a city and more so in the planning of a new one, gave rise to national surveys to discover just where the fault lines lay. The new science sprang from the destruction of San Francisco and the realization that it was built upon the vast system of fractures collectively known as the San Andres fault. In Spain such research in the 1970s revealed the extent of the Guadalquivir fault system, which is now known to run from just below Cadiz to the coast of Alicante and on into the sea embracing the Balearic islands. The cause of the mild earthquakes felt on the island every few years. Here the African plate meets the European and the elevation of our island is, therefore, part of the slow and vast process which gave rise to the Alps of southern Europe. However, the island building process did not occur in one dramatic geological incident. Rather, fossils in the various stratum which constructed the island indicate that no less than seven upheavals have occurred during the geological ages from the Triassic to the Miocene, with the islands only becoming separate entities during the Pliocene, each event piling another sedimentary layer upon the last. Moreover, all of these layers have been fractured and tilted by later earthquakes and volcanic activity so that the island resembles a seven layer cake that has been jumped upon and kicked from side to side. It is therefore vital to know these seemingly boring facts when contemplating building or drilling for water. The fact that a neighbor dug down to an even strata of hard calcite rock (the grey 'roca viva' or limestone) upon which to lay the foundations of his house in no way implies that this happy accident continues to the spot some three hundred meters away where you intend to build, even though the surface is now flattened by erosion. Sonic surveys and boreholes are vital on this island before buying building land in isolated spots. Previously to such services becoming available in the last twenty years it was all a matter of dousing and asking the areas eldest inhabitants of past disasters. One prime example being the fact that the church near the cliffs of 'Es Cubells' was built half upon a solid rock strata and half upon the loose clay and rock amalgam of the cliffs. The inevitable occurred and it cracked in half as it settled, now being propped up by massive and ugly buttresses. The fact that speculators were then recently allowed to build mansions upon these fragmented cliffs is another story to be explored later. Geological history may be a dry matter, but to ignore it is to find that the very wet matter of your having built your house at the end of a funnel valley where 'a once in a hundred year flood' explodes onto the plain! See Ibizaholidays.com for more history.