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of Sardinia..
We were visiting the Valledoria and Castelsardo area in the northern
Sardinia coast and decided to go for a mountain bike tour of the
coast between the two localities.
This is a bit different tour from the usual tourist choice, in facts
most tourists would stop at the beautiful and long sandy beaches in
Valledoria, including La Ciaccia beach, or at the cosy Castelsardo
old town, so let's go and discover a new, different and not busy
place.
While the beaches in the area are very busy during the summer time,
as normal, the place we are going to describe, though being very
near to Valledoria, is a calm and quiet place all year round.
This coastal area and the Baia Ustina, can be visited, starting from
Valledoria or Castelsardo, in a few hours either biking or walking
or, if you can't avoid it, reaching with a car or motorbike through
nearby white roads. We walked from Valledoria towards Castelsardo
but stopped at about middle way at the Baia Ustina.
You'll see from the pictures that the sea water is blue and
transparent, pictures have been taken in a calm day at the end of
September 2005, and inviting for swimming or for fishing. Usually
the best place for swimming would be the Baia Ustina beach, which is
more protected, while along the open coast you should be much more
careful when deciding if to enter the water, considering presence of
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Sardinia > Pictures
Of Valledoria And Castelsardo Coast
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Baia Ustina, reached from Valledoria
Castelsardo in the background
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Another picture of Ustina Bay
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Walking along the coast
In the Castelsardo Direction
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Looking back to Valledoria
while going
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Easy walking or biking
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Changing coast and vegetation
clear water
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A calm day without waves
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Looking down from the track
great sea water colours
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Great rocks and seawater
it is possible to climb down
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Another view of the sea
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Another coastal view
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Going back to Valledoria
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Biking
or Trekking
We started our tour with the mountain bikes from La Ciaccia area in
Valledoria and ride in the track along the coast westwards in the
Castelsardo direction.
It is an easy trail also for beginners.
As we enjoyed the place and wanted to see the coast, the rocks,
vegetation and sea water from a nearer point of view have continued
our tour walking till we reached the Baia Ustina, or Ustina Bay, a
small bay which has a small opening towards the open sea and widens
toward the inner side with a nice small and protected beach.
This bay is roughly middle way between Valledoria and Castelsardo.
Suggestion
If you find the time to visit this area biking or walking, you may
be the type of person that can enjoy a visit to the Terme of
Casteldoria, in the nearby town of Santa Maria Coghinas, just a few
miles distance.
There is a nice place to walk between an uncontaminated nature and
along a small river.
In the thermal area you'll see the steam coming out from the river
water, with little bubbles of gas, or through the soil and the
flowing of hyperthermal water at around 70°C.
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