Sardinia On- and Offroad at Capo Malfatone

Offroad

Sardinia offers not only fantastic coastal roads, it is also a paradise for off-road fans.
Above all, you'll find plenty of variety: from sandy tracks, which the Sardinians also drive with their Fiat Panda, to heavy terrain. I always have to laugh when I see a big '4×4' sign on a Fiat Panda at used car dealers.
Directly behind the beach Sa Tonnaria, where we spent the last days, an offroad path winds over the Capo Malfantano. This leads to the Torre di Capo. What is easy going for the first few meters abruptly turns into a washed out, rocky path. The climb is so steep within a few meters that it is only difficult to manage on foot.

PS: Can you tell from any picture how steep the path is?

I'm always amazed at the roads a VW bus can scramble up. After all, it's just a van in the end. Our off-road tour today is short, but still a lot of fun.

The only drawback, we scraped our GoPro on a muddy path. We have overestimated our ground clearance. It's pretty stupid when you put the GoPro in the middle of the path on the ground, between the lane, then drives cool over it and then realizes that you have knocked it down smoothly. We sunk deeper into the mud than expected. And unfortunately it didn't survive that.

Onroad

Today we have to break down our tents here, because both our water and food reserves are running low.

We are only a few days on Sardinia and have not yet seen much. But I am surprised how few opportunities there are here to buy fruits and vegetables. In Sicily, we have felt everywhere a fruit stand on the road or these traveling greengrocers found. That is not so easy here. But here we find more water points at park4night. On Sicily, park4night is much thinner. In the Madonie almost nothing is registered. Lets conclude that there are significantly more campers here in Sardinia.

Porto Pinetto

Until we have found here finally possibilities to refresh our stocks, it is also again time to look for a place to sleep for the night. We drive a little along the coast to the northwest. Several ways in the direction of the water turn out to be dead ends. We do not reach the water. Once we are in front of a military area, then a shifting sand dune blocks our way. Finally we find our place near Porto Pinetto, above Punta Sa Bua. We park on a small cliff, in the middle of a pine grove. Although the sea is very close here, you can't see it from our spot. However, this is not a big deal. With a few steps we are on the cliffs and experience a fantastic sunset.