Here's your essential guide to getting the best out of a holiday in Ibiza.

Location nickname: The White Isle

Don't miss: Formentera

Best avoid: San Antonio

Don't miss: Burrida de Ratjada - skate cooked with almonds

Best avoid: Restaurants with pushy touts

Clubs: Superclubs have come to define Ibiza as a party island.  First timers may want to check out Pacha, just outside Ibiza Town.  Founded in 1973, Pacha is the original 3,000 plus capacity club.  After 40-years, slick productions of underground and mainstream dance music, themed DJ sessions, lithe go-go dancers, and VIP guests keep the crowds coming.

Cova de Can Marça:  Some 100,000 years old this intestinal network of caverns and grottoes lies inside the sea cliffs of Port de Sant Miquel de Balansat.  Once used as a cache for illicit Duty Free goods, ages-old smugglers' markings on the rocks point the way to perfume, tobacco and liqueur aisles.

Cycling:  More than 20 downloadable routes wind through lesser-visited parts of Ibiza, graded from Green - 10 to 12-kilometres of easy pedalling, to Black - up to 60-kilometres of punishing ascents and descents.  Numerous hire shops provide bikes and helmets, and when beaches are packed cycling offers a passport to another Ibiza.

Diving:  Excellent visibility, warm water and a wide variety of shore and boat dives make Ibiza a haven for divers.  As well as some stunning cave dives the Don Pedro ferry wreck off Ibiza Port is popular with experts, whilst multilingual PADI courses are widely available for beginners.

Eivissa and D'alt Villa:  Ibiza old town is more sophisticated than gritty San Antonio.  Buzzing with cool bars, it's an excellent place watch the beautiful, the eccentric and plain weird people go by.  Perched above the winding streets the 14th century cathedral and castle of D'alt Villa are worth a climb for views over the town.

Formentera:  An hour's sailing by slow ferry this sandy sister island of Ibiza, though hardly unknown, remains a Bohemian bolt hole for those escaping the bright lights of brash commercialism.  Hire a scooter and lose yourself, your inhibitions and your clothes on one of any number of stunning beaches.

Hippy Market:  Started in the 1970s, the markets of Es Caná and San Carlos were a sunny rehab for those who'd fallen off the magic bus en route to or from the mystic east.  These days, amongst 400 stalls there are fewer hippies and more local artisans selling jewellery, leather goods and handicrafts, but be prepared for spontaneous bouts of bongo drumming.

Playa d'en Bossa:  Ibiza's longest beach is populated by a string of loud beach bars competing for the attentions of equally loud clientele.  Added to this mix is the urgent roar of arriving and departing jet aircraft.  However, put aside your reservations and take a stroll, it can be fun.

Sa Caleta:  In 650BC Phoenician traders arrived to settle, drawn by readily available sea salt from Ibiza's coastal marshes.  Around 10-kilometres from today's Ibiza town, the site was excavated in the 1990s and declared a World Heritage Site in 1999.  At first glance the ruins are a little underwhelming but in the context of the Mediterranean's ancient history hugely significant.

Ses Salines: This relatively new national park of 32,000 acres extends from the southern tip of Ibiza to the island of Formentera, including the intervening sea, and provides a protected habitat for some 178 plant and 210 bird species.  Guided walking and cycling tours highlight the park's delicate ecological balance along with the impact of human activities.

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