If you’ve chosen to spend your vacation at Tiliguerta Glamping & Camping Village, it means you love being in touch with nature. If you enjoy immersing yourself in the colors and scents of the Mediterranean scrub, observing wild animals hidden among the bizarre shapes of rocks or reeds, we invite you to join our trekking experiences. Through the proposed excursions, you will get to know the natural world around Tiliguerta. There are many paths branching out from Tiliguerta in every direction, allowing you to immerse yourself in different ecosystems from the sea to lagoons, from ponds to mountains, discovering the true essence of this land and engaging in healthy movement.
Between Monte Ferru and Capo Ferrato, you can tread on volcanic rocks and granites, beaches and coves with sand of different colors, and observe a rich flora that shows its maximum splendor during spring. Feraxi, just after Capo Ferrato, with its fishy ponds and numerous bird species including pink flamingos, its long beach, and dunes with characteristic summer blooms.
You can also admire the agroecosystems created by humans, treasure troves of many culinary traditions that you can savor at Tiliguerta’s restaurant. For hiking enthusiasts, we invite you to explore with us the mountains of Parco dei Sette Fratelli, which still offer the opportunity to discover unexplored corners of pristine nature. Granite, streams, oak forests, Sardinian deer, and golden eagles are just a few of the wonders of this mountainous complex.
GUIDED TOUR TO MONTE FERRU
Porto Pirastu is located on the southern side of the Capo Ferrato promontory, it is a natural port formerly used by Roman ships as demonstrated by the numerous discoveries of anchors and amphorae in its waters. It is dominated to the north-west by the porphyry massif of Monte Ferru with the beautiful Spanish tower and to the north-east by the promontory of Capo Ferrato which completely shelters it from the winds that blow from the northern slopes: Grecale, Tramontana and Maestrale. Interest: geological, botanical and archaeological
Estimated duration: 3h Route length: 3km (ring)
GUIDED TOUR OF CAPO FERRATO
The Capo Ferrato promontory is the granite and basaltic rocky extension of Monte Ferru.
It has light granitic sands to the south and dark basaltic sands to the north. An important gateway for alien fish species such as triggerfish and barracuda, Capo Ferrato is also an obligatory destination for many migratory bird routes. Interest: geomorphological, botanical and historical
Estimated duration: 3h Route length: 3km (return)
EXCURSION TO CALA SA FIGU AND PORTO DE S’ILLIXI
Cala Sa Figu is also known as the “bay of amphorae”: its uniqueness derives from the presence of ancient shards of Roman amphorae left embedded in the rocks a few meters from the shore (morphological traps) which suggest some tragic episode occurred in the past when probably some triremes at anchor were surprised by a sudden sea storm and destroyed on the rocks. Two small beaches complete a wild landscape full of rocks and reefs.
The northern exposure protects the bay from the winds of the southern slopes: Scirocco, Ostro and Libeccio. Portu S’ilixi is the next bay to Cala sa Figu.
The beach becomes darker due to the presence of ferrous minerals; the grain size of the sand is very fine and the composition makes it particularly compact. The rock formations on the sides of the beach are interesting and reveal the effusive volcanic origin of the cove. On the promontory that divides the two coves there is an evident basaltic intrusion which forms a characteristic cave at sea level. On the highest part of the cape there are the remains of a Nuragic construction.
Interest: geomorphological, botanical, archaeological Estimated duration: half day Route length: 8km (return)