Meet & greet, bike fitting and Orientation, bike-test in direction of Porto Cervo depending on your arrival time. Arzachena is a well known seaside resort town located on the north eastern tip of Sardinia, in the Gulf of Arzachena. It’s in a very strategic position as it allows easy access to all the tourist spots and to the extraordinary beaches of the entire Costa Smeralda.
Meals included: Welcome Aperitif.

Loop bike ride from Arzachena to La Maddalena, by taking a ferryboat to the island; return the same way. Today you’ll ride along the coast with breathtaking scenery of Costa Smeralda heading towards Palau, where you can take the ferryboat for a short transfer to reach La Maddalena, one of the most beautiful minor islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Meals included: Breakfast

Bike ride from Arzachena to Tempio Pausania . Leaving Costa Smeralda, you start venturing into wild Sardinia, discovering many little villages of the inland and the thick Gallura cork forests. You’ll climb into Tempio Pausania sitting at 600mt above the sea level. In Tempio, the climactic conditions have always favored grape growing, which allows the production of precious and famous wines like Muscat or Vermentino as well as excellent red and rosé wines.
Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner

Bike ride from Tempio Pausania to Castelsardo. Leaving Tempio, you’ll start your ride with an easy downhill, admiring the cork forests along the way. The direction of today is towards the sea where our destination is the medieval city of Castelsardo. You’ll ride into S.Maria Coghinas before arriving in Castelsardo, perched on the high cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. From the high coast and the Citadella, you can easily admire the island of Corsica on a clear day.
Meals included: Breakfast

Bike ride; from Castelsardo to Stintino. Today you’ll pedal with the sea always on your right side towards Porto Torres, a pretty seaside city, which is Sardinia’s third largest harbour. You’ll ride through a magnificent pine forrest and always close to the sea. The destination for today ride is to arrive in Stintino, which overlooks the Asinara Gulf. It came into existence precisely in 1885, when the families who lived on the Asinara Island, were evicted to make way for a penal colony.
Meals included: Breakfast

Cycling. Leaving the pretty Stintino in the Asinara gulf in direction south, you’ll ride through the wonderful area known for the Vermentino wine. In this region called Nurra, the wind blows directly from the North West which prevents the vegetation to grow over a few meters. You’ll arrive to the bay of Porto Conte, where, if you have time you should be able to visit Capo Caccia situated just a few kilometers from Alghero. Here there are characteristic, white sheer cliffs (nearly 300mt high) on its west side and famous for its Grotte di Nettuno caves on the water surface which is also worth a visit.
Meals included: Breakfast

After breakfast, end of tour or loop bike ride to Villanova Monteleone in the thick forests high up in the costal mountain range if you have enough time before your departure.
Meals included: Breakfast

Transfer by boat from Stintino to Asinara Island (not included in the price) and round trip on the island. Distance 45km / 28mi
A wonderful journey at Asinara Island, cycling throughout the ex-jail Island, closed on 1996.
First a ‘quarantine’ station, then a prisoner of war camp during the First World War and lastly a maximum-security prison, until the establishment of the park. Its rich nature has been a part of the national park of the same name since 1997 and is separated from the beach of Pelosa and the Isola Piana island by the Passaggio dei Fornelli, a deep blue navigable canal.
Highlights:
Visit at old Italian prisons
The white donkeys
Uncontaminated landscape and territory
The colored wildlife