Lo Pagan

LO PAGAN

An old fashioned seaside town with a long promenade and a fantastic walk across the lagoons to La Manga Strip, (several miles)although you can't actually walk all the way acroos.

Lo Pagan has many hotels offering thermal, salt and mud baths but you can try these for free in the lagoons here.
Mud is supposed to be very good for your skin. If you decide to do this then be prepared and do as the locals do. Take a plastic bucket and towel, a sponge or small flannel (to wash bits of mud left behind after rinsing off).

If you do decide to cover yourself in mud, then take a bucket or small container (you can watch how others do it first) take mud from under the water and cover yourself with the stuff, you can put it on your face like a mask and even your hair, then walk around, it’s important that you don’t sit down at this stage until it all dries and turns a grey colour (about 30 minutes) Then enter water, the mud will be squashy and warm under your feet, cooler water lies on top, just float around like everyone else at least 20 minutes and then wash it off with the cooler sea water.
Next walk across the pier until you see the clear salt lagoons and enter the water and float around for another ten minutes or so (you will find the flamingos have joined you). Finally rinse off and walk across the quay to the actual beachside and into the clear sea for a swim or final rinse, your skin will feel good and it’s very good fun.

Walk along the pier (Windmill is now behind you – see directions below) and very soon you will see people with bits of body covered in mud, or their whole body, face and hair totally covered in mud walking about drying......

From El Valle take the C3319 in the direction of San Javier as for Los Alcazares except when you reach the end of the motorway, when you follow the signs for San Pedro del Pinatar via the Alicante – Cartagena motorway. Take the exit for San Pedro proceeding straight across the next roundabout in the direction of Lo Pagan, leaving the Dos Mares shopping centre on your right hand side. Follow the road down to the sea and then turn left and continue on until road bears left, and you will pass a funfair on the right hand side and take the next right hand turn. Follow the road passing along the sea front until you reach the windmill and park as near you can.

There are quite a few restaurants and bars all along the promenade. They include:

Restaurante Venezuela - Lo Pagan Tel. 968 181 1515

Very good seafood, meat and rice dishes – especially worth trying are the Mar Menor Prawns. In the summer there’s an outdoor Terrace or air conditioned restaurant inside. Ideal for dinner or family Sunday lunch on the terrace. Booking essential in the summer.