Discovering the "Other" Mallorca

So it’s all the more striking if you consider that you can walk for hours in the Park Natural de Llevant without seeing a single soul (except the odd fellow hiker). The northeastern corner has always been the least populated part of the island, but when it was declared a Nature Reserve (about a dozen years ago), the government did not do things by halves – they bought up the few remaining farms in the area and closed them down.