Photo spot in Formentera
Ses Illetes and the Trucadors sandbar
A narrow strip of white sand at the island's northern tip, with turquoise water on both sides.
About Ses Illetes and the Trucadors sandbar
Get directionsSes Illetes is the beach Formentera is known for, and the part worth walking to is the sandbar beyond it: Es Trucadors narrows until there is sea on your left and sea on your right, in two different blues, with yachts anchored offshore and the sea floor visible through the water.
For a photograph, the value is the emptiness. Point the camera north along the spit and there is nothing in the frame but sand, water and sky — no buildings, no road, no horizon clutter. Early morning is when it is clean; from late morning in July and August the boats come in and the sand fills.
The whole area is inside the Ses Salines natural park. Vehicle access to the beach is controlled and paid in season, parking is limited, and the dunes are crossed on marked boardwalks only — check the current arrangement for your date, and plan on walking the last stretch either way.
Best time to shoot
First light, before the boats arrive
Tips
Marked boardwalks only across the dunes; parking and vehicle access are controlled in season — check before driving. No shade anywhere on the spit.
Other spots in Formentera
Cap de Barbaria lighthouse
A straight road across bare limestone to a lighthouse at the edge of a cliff — the island's sunset.
Es Caló de Sant Agustí
A fishermen's cove of wooden slipways cut into the rock, where the island narrows to a few hundred metres.
La Mola — the lighthouse and the old windmill
A plateau of dry-stone fields at the far end of the island, ending in a lighthouse above a vertical drop.
Ready to book?
Our concierge team will hand-pick 2-3 photographers who know Ses Illetes and the Trucadors sandbar — free of charge.