BETWEEN LAND AND SKY GROUP TOUR

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Included
Included
Hire of 24 speed hybrid cycle and equipment
Full board hotel accommodation including packed lunch in rooms with shower/ wc
Luggage transport
Tour information including maps and routes
Tour guide, cycling guide & support vehicle
Entrance fees to museums & historic sights

 

Excluded
Cycle Helmets Drinks with evening meals

 

Extras
Single rooms
Transfers
Extra nights available

 

Access: (advice only not included)by air with Ryanair to Alghero airport: return bus from Cagliari for Ryanair flight
By Alitalia & Easyjet to Cagliari airport

Transfers Alghero Airport-hotel, Pula-Cagliari available.

 

Duration: 7 Nights/8 Days

 

Start: 15th April,13th May, 10th June, 2nd Sept, 7th Oct, 4th Nov 2006

Level 3


Price £695
Single supplement £75

Day 1. Arrive ALGHERO: explore this Spanish city on the Coral Riviera
Evening: collect cycles and briefing.

Day 2. ALGHERO - BOSA
     26ml(42km)
Cycle by cliffs overlooking the sea and through the green meadows to the Appiu
Nuraghe, an ancient monument which goes back to the beginning of Sardinian civilisation.
Perhaps see rare griffin vultures over the pink, red and grey cliffs of Cape Marargiu on
the journey to Bose, a medieval town famous for its fine embroidery and gold filigree works.
Beach
Day 3. BOSA - SAN SALVATORE SINIS 36ml(58km)
Travel through Flussio and Tinnura, where women still weave their wicker baskets and continue on a fascinating panoramic ride down to the Sinis wetlands with its colonies of pink flamingoes. Visit the beautiful white quartz beach of Is Arutas and the Phoenician ruins of Tharros Transfer before continuing to the hotel at San Salvadore Sinis.i

Day 4. SAN SALVATORE SINIS - ARBUS 29ml(46km)     
Cycle through the natural beauty spots of the Costa Verde, some of the most savage
scenery on the island. The Piscinas beach has sand dunes over 50m high - the
highest in Europe.

Day 5. ARBUS - CALASETTA      34ml(54km)
Today's ride takes you back to ancient mining past of Sardinia, the fascinating
abandoned mines of Ingortosu and Planusartu. After the golden beach of Portixeddu and
massive cliff of Pan di Zucchero, visit the old ore washery at Nebida and continue
to Portoscuso for the ferry to Calaseta on the island of Sant' Antonico.

Day 6. CALASETTA - S.ANNA ARRESI  27ml(43km)
Today pedal through the meadows of the Isle of Sant' Antioco, green in springtime, golden yellow in the summer and enjoy the peace of the rolling plains of the Sulcis. At Tratalias, visit the Pisan sanctuary, one of the important monuments of the Sardinian Romanesque period.
Sunset
Day 7. S.ANNA ARRESI - PULA      37ml(60km)
After a visit to the Santadi Winery explore the Zuddas Caves. Continue along the south coast with its gleaming white beaches, unspoilt natural landscape and imposing cliffs: pass Cape Malfatano with its 16th Century tower and Cape Spartivento before arriving at Pula.

Day 8. Depart PULA

 

 


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