Difficulty notes: Outdoor experience, fitness, training and flexibility are needed to face this difficult trekking. No special climbing skills are required –the mountain guide is here for that.
Target: hikers
Season:
from April to June, from September to November
Price includes
: UIAGM/IFMGA mountain guide, hotel accommodation (day 1 and 7), food during the trekking, land and sea transfers during the hike
Price does not include
: In/out airport or ferry transfers, extras.
Practical information: HISTORICAL NOTE AND "GUARANTEE OF QUALITY" The “Selvaggio Blu” was born in 1989 of the idea of Mario Verin, Peppino Cicalò and of Pasquale Zucca, the mayor of the town of Baunei. The idea was to connect the old network of shepherd and coal paths staying as near to the sea as possible. These paths had not been used for many years and got practically lost in this region due to the typical Mediterranean flora. Nowadays the paths are only traces of the ways where wild pigs and sheep use and it is really difficult to recognize them. Probably this reason makes this trek so fascinating: the need to orientate oneself in the omnipresent and extraordinary nature where the only point of orientation is the sea….blue!
Marcello Cominetti, deep connoisseur of this region and alpine guide has lived at S. Maria Navarrese for several years when he was a teenager, and started accompanying for the first time, small groups of excursionists. Also after the publishing of an article about this trek in 1993 many wanted to do the “Selvaggio Blu” and Guide Alpine Star Mountain remained for a long time the only ones who were able to accompany clients on the trek where everyone looses himself. Nowadays there are many guides and tour operators that offer this trek, but no one can offer the experience we have accumulated in 30 years of hiking in this beautiful and mysterious areas of the Supramonte of Baunei.
Sardinia - Selvaggio Blu - Wild Blue trek
The wildest and most beautiful trek in Italy. 6 days on rugged terrain winding along the Orosei Gulf
Trip
highlights
Sleep
under the stars overlooking the Mediterranean
Sea
Hike
and take a bath in Cala Goloritzè, one of the most beautiful
beaches in Sardinia
Enjoy
the fantastic view of the OroseiGulf from
the top of Punta Salinas
Defined
as the most wildest trek in Italy,
“Selvaggio Blu”
probably is also the most original and beautiful one. The valleys from
the
inland open their way to the sea shaping beautiful coves where you will
be able
to refresh almost every day.
This trek that goes from the town of Santa
Maria Navarrese
to the beach
of Cala Luna,
follows from south to north, the coastline of one of the
most beautiful gulfs of the Mediterranean sea: the OroseiGulf.
The panoramas and sceneries offered can not be found in other places in
Sardinia. The
terrain is rocky and uneven and in some
places where rocks close the way, easy climbs and rappels will be
necessary.
Persons with long experience in journeys, alpine expeditions and
explorations
in the world, always said that this trek is surprisingly fascinating
and
unique, and also for the “normal” excursionist this
itinerary always overcomes
the expectations regarding the beauty, becoming an experience that goes
further
than the normal hike with the backpack on the shoulders. “An anti stress, wellness for the spirit and a
return to the roots,
appreciating the lack of comfort and moments of
difficulty…that makes you feel
good with yourself”, like this many have defined
this trek after having
done it.
The programme includes accommodation under the stars, in other words
bivouacs
without tents or different shelters. Apart from the first night there
will be
always the possibility of a refreshing bath in the sea at the end of
each day.
Deposits of food and water will be organised by the guide prior of the
trip
Daily program
1
Meeting
at the town of Santa
Maria Navarrese with the guide and
briefing of the trip.
Hotel
2
Hike
from Santa
Maria to Pedralonga.The trek keeps
on the climb of the dolomitic ledge of Punta Giradili that takes us to
the fascinating Cuile Duspiggius.
Camp
3
After
crossing a canyon with some easy rock climbing we reach first Portu
Pedrosu and then Portu Quau.
Camp
4
The
first part of the day is spent walking on the edge of the 200-m cliffs
over the sea.Arrival at the top of Punta Salinas and descend to the beautiful beach of Goloritzè dominated by the Aguglia, a monolithic spire 150m high.
Camp
5
Early
in the morning we face one of the must difficult steps in the trek, the
BoladinaCanyon
with its 40-m rocky gully to climb. Walk to the open and flat area of
Ololbizzi and descend to sleep in a cave 20m over the sea. Incredible sunrise!
Camp
6
A
thin stretch of land squeezed between high rock walls and the sea,
interrupted by a short vertical step is today’s playground. We sleep in Cala Sisine.
Camp
7
A
narrow path climbs up to Sa Sedda Eranu pass. From here a long downhill
walk on the Badde e Lupiru to Cala Luna. Back to Santa Maria Navarrese
by boat.
Hotel
8
End
of services after breakfast - Transfer to Olbia/Cagliari/Arbatax.
