Time to head back up north
Giara dei gesturi
Last stop on our trip was the giara dei gesturi, this high plateau is home to sardinia's wild horses.
There's around 1500 wild horses living in the cork oak woods. Of course we had to try our luck. Shane was a very courageous boy and walked a lot, but no horses to be found. We decided to head home and since we still had to walk the long way back we started to sing all the nursery rhymes we knew. Just before we got back to our car, a mare with her foal crossed our path. We couldn't believe our luck and followed them into the forest where we found several other horses peacefully eating grass. I have to admit this was quite a magical moment.
The dunes
The dunes of the costa verde are the highest in europe and a unesco world heritage. They are up to 100m high and home to some endemic deer, which of course we tried to spot. Found their traces but did not spot any deer.
Hotel le dune
We stayed in the hotel le dune a very nice Hotel that is now hosted in the old silver mine building.
Unfortunately they serve really mediocre food. And at the breakfast they serve nescafe ....
Costa verda
Then a long drive to the costa verde. Seemed like reaching the end of the world. Tiny fisher villages with only one ways where even the bridge was a one way, and we were on the wrong side of it... do as the italians do we thought and drove over it. Villages that seemed deserted. No place to stop for lunch to be found. Decayed mines. Sheep on the streets. Finally we reached the costa verde. A long time ago when I was a little girl we came here with our camper bus. I have such nice memories of this place that I wanted to come back and see how it's today.
After this long and dusty ride we ware happy to jump into the surge but as alway the waves were to big and to wild so we had some wave fun instead.
When we are here back in the 1981 there was nothing except beach, dunes and 3 italians living in the ruins of the silver mine at the beach.
The beach was covered with shoes, probably a ship carrying a load of shoes had sunken and the shoes washed up at the beach. That was fun.
Good morning
Woke up to lovely day went down to the run down bar and had several lovely cappuccinos and watched 18 griffon vulture gliding through the sky.
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