The Gorroppu Gorge

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10 May 2011

We had a successful visit to the Gorroppu Gorge today making an early start to miss the midday heat. The gorge is one of the deepest in southern Europe with 200m sheer walls.

The two hour walk in was through beautiful scenery along paths sometimes under shady arches of trees and past many flowering shrubs. The gorge, when we got there, was every bit as spectacular as we expected with immense walls and in places was very narrow. Making progress along it required scrambling over the many large boulders in its bottom, sometimes assisted by fixed ropes. With care Wendy managed to go along part of the way and I went about a kilometre.

We got back to the van in mid afternoon and then drove about 40k south along a terrific mountain road through one of the remotest parts of Sardinia. Our overnight stop was at the small resort of Santa Maria Navarrese on a lovely parking place overlooking the sea. It was very lively when we got there being occupied by a large party of touring Dutch.

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