Es Canar, the market village on Ibiza's east coast

The Wednesday market at Punta Arabí

Hippy Market Punta Arabí is the oldest and biggest hippy market on the island, set in the grounds of a white Ibizan-village hotel at the edge of Es Canar. The stalls thread between tall pines in long aisles, with bunting and tie-dye strung overhead and a live music stage on the craftsmen's street. Entry is free. Stall prices run €5 to €60, which covers most of what is laid out on the tables.

Hours are 10:00 to 18:00 on Wednesdays. Coaches come in from all over the island through the morning and the car park on site is sized for them, so the aisles are busiest either side of midday. Coach parties are the norm; there is no door policy and you walk straight in. Las Dalias, 3.5 km inland in Sant Carles, is a separate market and trades on Saturdays.

FERGUS Style Punta Arabí is the hotel that started the market in 1973, and the stalls still set up inside its grounds every Wednesday. It was rebuilt in 2025 as an adults-only property of 329 rooms, a cluster of white Ibizan-village chalets on a cliff among the pines, with soft archways, wooden beams and Balinese beds along the edge of a big sea-facing pool. Rooms are €150 to €300 a night in season. The hotel is seasonal, opened on 30 April for 2026, and takes group bookings and events.

Platja d'Es Canar and the jetty

Platja d'Es Canar is the resort's own beach, pale sand in a shallow curve with a short concrete-and-wood ferry jetty at one end and a pine headland closing the view. The low whitewashed promenade bars sit right behind the sand. Access is free all year and the beach is lifeguarded in season. Blue rows of sunbeds and parasols are for hire at €6 to €8. The jetty, the promenade and the market are each a few minutes' walk from the sand, which is the practical reason to base yourself on this bay.

Ski Pepe Watersports has worked off this beach since 1970 and is still the same family. Parasailing is the thing they are known for, a rainbow canopy lifted high above the bay behind a white speedboat, at €45 to €60 per person. Kayaks are €15 an hour, and pedalos and SUP boards are drawn up on the sand for a slower morning. There is a banana boat for children. Walk up on the day or book ahead, though a bigger party should ring first. The base runs in season only.

Santa Eulalia Ferry leaves from the Es Canar jetty and is a working service. Boats hop to Cala Pada and Santa Eulària, and there are direct runs to Ibiza Town's Dalt Vila and on to Formentera. The launches are open-top, white and blue, and take a few hundred passengers, with the queue forming on the boards. Walk-on tickets are sold at the jetty kiosk and nothing needs booking. A return is €12 to €25 depending on the route. The service runs in the main season only and the last boats back are early evening, so check the return time at the kiosk when you buy.

Cala Nova and Cala Martina

Cala Nova is a kilometre north of Es Canar, a wide open sandy bay with waves that actually break, marram-grass dunes and pine woods behind, and boho beach club terraces on the rocks at the northern end. Access is free and there is ample parking. Swim with care: the swell and the undertow are serious, and this is the most exposed water on the stretch of coast. Cala Llenya, 2.4 km further on, is calm and suits families.

Cala Martina is 10 minutes' walk south of the village, past the market: a compact 150-metre strip of sand between low flat rocks, with glassy shallow turquoise water in front of it. Windsurf rigs and SUP boards lie out on the sand through the afternoon, because this has long been the east coast's windsurf and SUP spot, flat water with a dependable afternoon breeze. Board hire runs €20 to €40 and a small beach bar sits behind the sand. Kite launching from the beach is banned in the May to October bathing season.

The coastal path to Santa Eulària

The Es Canar – Santa Eulària coastal path is 8 km of shore path, free and unticketed, running south out of the village via Cala Martina, Cala Pada and Es Caló de s'Alga into Santa Eulària. Wooden boardwalks and footbridges are bolted across red-ochre rock shelves at the water's edge, and between them the path runs as pine-shaded dirt, with coves and chiringuitos appearing one after another.

Walk it in either direction. Some sections are narrow clifftop, so wear proper shoes and leave the flip-flops at the hotel. The ferry from Santa Eulària is the easy way back, so a one-way walk saves covering the distance twice.

Eating in the village

Buah Ibiza (Avinguda d'Es Canar) is open-fronted and looks straight over the sand. Fruit is piled on the counter for juices through the day, and the evening turns to Asian- and Mexican-tilted tapas at €8 to €16, read off a blackboard with more than 60 cocktails on it. The small plates are built for sharing. The terrace is modest, so a group should get there early in high season. Closed Mondays.

Solimar Restaurant & Café (Avinguda Punta Arabí) has been in the same family for two decades and runs from breakfast through to dinner, which makes it the default when you cannot be bothered to decide. The terrace sits under blue-and-white awnings with the beach a few steps below, and paella pans and fideà go out to tables of families all afternoon. Order the rice dishes. Mains are €14 to €24. Closed Thursdays.

La Parrilla Bar & Grill, in the centre of the village, is the serious meat kitchen. The charcoal parrilla burns at the back of a rear courtyard under strings of bulbs, and the tomahawks and seven-cut mixed grills sear in full view of the tables. The parrillada is a sharing platter for a group, and the beef empanadas are the right first course. Steaks are €22 to €55. There is live music and a small play area. Book ahead, because it fills and the service slows when a large party lands.

Il Carrettino Siciliano (Avinguda Punta Arabí) is a Sicilian kitchen: one small street-front room with patterned Sicilian floor tiles, stained glass and a painted cart above the doorway. Pizza and pasta run €11 to €20. It serves dinner only, from 18:30, and closes Mondays. Walk in or phone +34 619 971 117, though parties of more than about eight should book, since locals take up the room.

Hotel & Restaurant Las Arenas sits directly above the harbour, whitewashed and low, its pedestrianised seafront terrace laid out under striped parasols with a bakery counter of pastries by the door. The same family has run it since 1951. The kitchen cooks Ibizan food for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, with mains at €16 to €28, and everything from the bakery is made in house. Rooms are €120 to €220. The hotel is small, so a big party has to book months out.

Lunch and dinner above Cala Nova

Atzaró Beach is the Atzaró group's outpost on the rocks above the Cala Nova sand, and it is the smartest lunch within walking distance of Es Canar. The terrace is boho-70s: peacock chairs, dreamcatchers, cacti and succulents, double daybeds under canvas shade, with the pool and the sea on the same sightline. The food is sharing-style Mediterranean and paella, mains €24 to €38, and guest DJs play most afternoons. It reopened on 27 March 2026 and runs daily 10:00 to 00:00 in season. Daybeds are bookable online from €100 with food and drink credit, and the chiringuito down on the sand takes no bookings at all.

Aiyanna Ibiza is at the north end of Cala Nova, a terracotta and bleached-timber terrace with rattan lamps, sand underfoot and long sharing tables open straight onto the bay. The cooking is eastern-accented Mediterranean, and in season the day starts there with yoga and breakfast. Mains are €26 to €42. It is strictly seasonal and shut now, back in spring 2027, so put a reminder in the calendar and book the week it opens. Tables of more than eight go by email to [email protected]. There is valet parking, or a three-minute walk in along the coast.

Beer and live music at EsBirra

EsBirra Ibiza, in the village, is the one bar here with craft beer on tap and bands in the corner, a roomy industrial-ish space with the taps along a dark wood bar and empanadas going over the counter. Beers are €4 to €7. It opens at 10:00 on market Wednesdays, which makes it the obvious stop before and after the stalls. Closing is 04:00 on Fridays and 06:00 on Saturdays. It shuts Sunday and Monday. No door policy, and it is happy to take a group.

Before you go

Closed days shape the week here more than opening hours, and the market, the ferry and the water sports all run in season only. Book La Parrilla ahead, reserve any Atzaró Beach daybed online, and email Aiyanna for a table of more than eight.

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