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Italy, Sardinia: Lake Omodeo, Bosa, Via Ferrata del Cabirol, Sassari (Trip to Sardinia Day 5)

10 years ago, Tadej and me visited Sardinia with motorbikes and this year we decided to do it again, this time with Nada and Maja.

On our 5th day of our trip to Sardinia we decided to move to the West part of the island and started riding back North past the city Bosa. After a short visit of the castle we also had an ice-cream. We finished the visit with a quick shopping and soon we were back on the road to Capo Caccia, where we climbed Via Ferrata del Cabirol. When we finished it it started to rain, so we decided to go straight to Sassari, where we were hosted by couchsurfer Gui. Perfect timing for us.

 

 Chef prepared typical Sardinian food for breakfast: Sardines, freshly fished.

Wake up, breakfast and packing timelapse

Bosa - a charming town set on the Temo river valley near the sea overviewed by the Serravalle Castle

 

Short stop in the city

Hacker Tadej

SP105 road from Bosa to Alghero

Start of the Via Ferrata del Cabirol

 

Ferrata runs along limestone cliff face of Capo Caccia

 

From the lower ledge to the upper one, where the difficulties are bigger

 

Nada and view to the south

 

It really is an interesting via ferrata

 

Upper ledge is more exposed

Our rock

Job done, we all survived. This adventure was also great, because it is free of charge.

Via Ferrata del Cabirol

We arrived to our host Gui all wet, so as mentioned before, a great timing for us, that we got a hard roof above our heads and a first real shower after a while. We had a glass of wine with our host and then he pointed us to a great restaurant.

 

Great dinner for a great price in 140gr spaghetteria and cheers with grappa

GeoCaches found (all caches received a visit by "BLACK SPRITE", TB654M4 and "Don’t come knockin’", TB3E2Q0):
- Wonder cache, GC2WEPA

Previous entries from this Sardinia 2016 trip: 13494 (Day 1), 13495 (Day 2), 13496 (Day 3) and 13497 (Day 4).

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Italy, Sardinia: Gola su Gorruppu, Punta la Marmora, Lake Omodeo (Trip to Sardinia Day 4)

10 years ago, Tadej and me visited Sardinia with motorbikes and this year we decided to do it again, this time with Nada and Maja.

4th day of our trip to Sardinia was reserved for hiking.

First we entered the heart of Gola su Gorruppu. It's a really nice Gorge, some say the deepest in Europe, but the majority would argue that information. We went all the way to the end of the main canyon and then returned to our base camp, that was set yesterday under deep blue sky. After the breakfast we started ascending back to Paso Genna Silana (1017 m).

 

Camp site under the stars

  

Exploring the gorge

Some parts were quite difficult

Start of the hardest part of the trail (not recommended without a guide).

 

Final parts of the canyon. There is a cave deep in the canyon, which is one of the water sources of Gola Gorruppu.

Maja and Tadej

 

Carved over millennia by Flumineddu

Team Sardinia (Tadej, Maja, Tuši and Nada).

Quick half an hour before noon beer at the pass

Our 2 day hike to Gola su Gorruppu

We continued on the road towards our next hiking adventure. In Talana village we stopped for a moment, Tadej and me went shopping, while Nada and Maja had more difficult task, drinking cappuccino.

Soon we arrived to start of the hiking point, which is also part of the Bruncu Spina ski resort, which has 3.3 kilometres of ski slopes available and 1 lift, that transports the guests. Hiking trial led us straight to the highest point of Sardinia, Punta La Marmora, at an elevation of 1834 m.

 

On the road

 

Hike was easy

 

The summit is near

  

  

Making new friendship

It's a he.

Maja, Nada, Tuši, Tadej and Snowman

   

Rather than melting, he chose quick death

 

Tadej and his gymnastic skills

Last meters

Perdas Carpìas is a Sardinian name for the peak

 

Punta La Marmora is situated just east of the approximate center of Sardinia

Panorama from the top #1

Panorama from the top #2

Selfie time

Panorama #3

On our way back we conquered another peak, Punta Paulinu, 1792 m

View back to Punta La Marmora

Another quick peak, Bruncu Spina, Sardinia's second highest mountain.

Hike in Gennargentu mountain range

We had enough hiking for today, so we decided to move in the lower parts of Sardinia, direction West. On the map we chose Lake Omodeo for a possible camping site.

We were lucky and we found a nice spot for camping immediately

No luck with the wine for me. This was the 2nd time when I destroyed the only remaining bottle of wine. At least I was able to save a sip for everyone.

Barbecue

No wine, no fun

GeoCaches found (all caches received a visit by "BLACK SPRITE", TB654M4 and "Don’t come knockin’", TB3E2Q0):
- Gola su Gorruppu, EarthCache, GC26R33
- Punta la Marmora, EarthCache, GC2CQGM
- Bruncu Spina, GC5F73Z

Previous entries from this Sardinia 2016 trip: 13494 (Day 1), 13495 (Day 2) and 13496 (Day 3).