If you are planning your holidays in the Spanish city of Alicante, it is an excellent day's entertainment will be a visit to Tabarca island (or New Tabarca).
A day on the island, and diversify the rest and will give unforgettable impressions.
Tabarca island is located 22 kilometers from the city of Alicante. You can reach it by boats (catamarans) which every day depart from Alicante's beachfront promenade. Is a small red catamaran, stand approximately in the middle of the seaport, about a nondescript gray box.
It is in this booth and sell tickets on the catamaran. Each ticket is for two round trips. The cost of tickets in both directions is:
for one 19 EUR
- two persons - 38 EUR
three persons - 57 Euro...
All prices are for one photo
Box office ticket sales
Catamaran
Upper deck
Lower deck closed
The catamaran, which will have on Board the inscription, Vision Submarina, equipped with Windows below the waterline, may be on the way to look at the sea and fish. When we visited the island, a catamaran with stained glass bottom set off from Alicante at 11:00 o'clock, and returning from Tabarka at 16:30. Although this effect is not particularly impressed us, because:
- 1. to view in the glass window has to kneel;
- 2. Windows quite dirty;
- 3. the catamaran is going fast, except the white foam of the water can not see anything. So this addition will be fun entertainment only for kids.
In the tourist season, from June to September, catamarans run daily. From Alicante to the island depart at 10:00, 11:00 and 12:30 o'clock. From the island of Tabarka back in Alicante at 16:30 and 18:00, to sit at any boat, regardless of what time you arrived on the island.
From 30.09 to 20.06 goes to only two of the catamaran, one morning, one evening. The morning flight departs Alicante at 11:00 o'clock. Return from the island at 16:30.
Information on the current schedule and cost of tickets specify on the official website of the company www.cruceroskontiki.com.
The journey time is about an hour there and the same back.
Tip! Keep your tickets, on the way back, when you return to the island, boarding a catamaran you will take it.
A couple of tips! Even in warm weather on the upper deck pretty cool, so take a light jacket.
Take and a little bread. The fact that the island and its coastal waters are a conservation area, so the water in the sea near the island is surprisingly clean and transparent, and is famous for its huge variety of fish living off the coast. Approaching the island the catamaran will adjust it's speed at this time throw pieces of bread into the sea for a moment at the side will be a lot of fish of various shapes, sizes and colors, and your bread will disappear in the eyes.
Video shot from the catamaran at the approach to the island - fish feeding, island of Tabarca
The island of Tabarca can be reached from Santa Pola/Santa Pola and Benidorm/Benidorm on catamarans of different colors, small boats, water taxis and even boats with a motor.
Here are some photos from the trip on the catamaran
Set sail from the seaport of Alicante
On the way
In the distance is the island of Tabarca
