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Giara hiking Tour

By Museo PARC e Civico Museo del Cavallo della Giara
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$139 per traveller* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • One of the most evocative places in Sardinia
  • Chance to see wild horses
  • Guided tour with the van
  • Avaible all the year
  • Van transfer from the village of Genoni included
Activity location
    • Genoni
    • Genoni, Sardegna, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
    • Via Roma, 67, 08030 Genoni SU, Italia | In front of the Bar Sport
    • Genoni, Sardegna, Italy

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Valid for 3 Hours, Giara hiking Tour in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Price details
AU$139.40 x 1 TravellerAU$139.40

Total
Price is AU$139.40

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided tour, transfer from Genoni to the starting point in the Giara Park

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: Wheelchair users

What you can expect

The excursion starts from the hidden part of the park, after a short transfer lasting half an hour. The trek is 3 km on foot with the guide and the aim is to reach the panoramic area of Zeppara Manna.
Afterwards you can walk to visit the small Pauli Maiore swamp.

The name Giara, Sa Jara, probably comes from the Latin glarea (gravel), referring to the widespread stoniness that characterises the surface of the plateau. The Pliocene basalt Giara plateau (500-600 m a.s.l.) surrounded by 11 municipalities, covers about 45 km² of territory. Steep crags of dark lava rock, from which roaring waterfalls sometimes cascade, surround this vast plateau, whose surprisingly flat top is embellished by the striking water features of the paulis (Pauli Tramatzu, Pauli Maiori, etc.) with their splendid, whitish spring blooms of water buttercups. The steep slopes of the Giara, lush with verdant forests and Mediterranean scrub, are moulded in the soft marly marine sediments of the Miocene, in places incised by steep seasonal water channels. On these slopes, frequent springs (funtanas or mitzas) often originate from the infiltration of rainwater along the latticework of diaclasis across the summit basaltic rock. Due to its remarkable landscape-naturalistic values, the Giara Plateau has been included among the nine natural parks provided for by Regional Law No. 31 of 1989.

Location

Activity location
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    • Genoni
    • Genoni, Sardegna, Italy
Meeting/Redemption Point
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    • Via Roma, 67, 08030 Genoni SU, Italia | In front of the Bar Sport
    • Genoni, Sardegna, Italy