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Duration: three days and three nights
Departure: Aritzo
Step 1: Lunch at S’Arena sheep farm
Step 2: Separadorgiu farm accomodation
Step 3: Dinner and overnight stay in tents on Monte Spada or in farm accommodation at Donnortei. (Just in case the travellers don't want to sleep in tents but in hotel).
Step 1: Predas Fittas place
Step 2: Lunch at Centro equestre Taloro
Step 3: Tour of Sa Itria church
Step 4: Quick tour of San Cosimo church
Step 5: Mamoiada: tour of Sas pardas longas, Perda pinta, Museo delle Maschere
Step 6: Dinner and overnight stay at Monte Gonare
Step 1: Quick stop at Orani
Step 2: Tour of domus de Janas Sas Concas and around Oniferi landscape
Step 3: Lunch at Contones farm accomodation
Step 4: Quick stop at Funtana Sa Menta to water the horses
Step 5: Quick tour of nuragic village of Nurdole
Step 6: Dinner and overnight stay at Costiolu farm accomodation
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View of Aritzo, image detail from Voyage of Gaston Vuillier
Travelling in Sardinia. Alternative methods. The virtues of vagabondage
“There are at least two chief courses open to the inquisitive traveller in Sardinia. He may petition his consul to aid him in his wanderings with a letter or two of recommendation. […] The second course is less magnificent. It proposes to the traveller that he should go among the people as one of the people. His guide is to be a common person, whose ordinary wits are to be made changeable with the needs of victualling, accommodation, and security during his wanderings. […] Instead of following the white highways driven by Italian Board of Works into the recesses of the mountains, he elects to climb the hills and descend them by the old breakneck trails, which shall take him to remote hamlets still unconnected with the capital by daily posts, the diligence, or the telegraph wire.
Well, in spite of the urgings of sensual inclination, I chose the latter method of seeing something of Sardinia’s highlands.
As usual, chance set the threads in order, and bid me weave if I would”.
(From Charles Edwardes, Sardinia and the Sardes, London, Richard Bently and son, 1889, p. 98-100.)
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