Description
OUTDOOR SPORTS ON THE ISLND OF ELBA
HIKKING
Going hiking on Elba means following thousands of years of its inhabitants history, from prehistoric caves to ancient stone villages, finding Etruscan furnaces and forts, visiting antique granite quarries where Romans worked columns.
You could relive the Saracen raids, visiting battlefields, defensive forts and destroyed villages that have never been rebuilt.
Walking on Elba means you?ll discover and get to know all this and more thanks to the enormous concentration of sites that this small and great island offers.
KAYAK
Elba with its 147 km of coast, rich in grottos and fascinating coves, surrounded by a crystal clear sea, which is rich in marine life is the ideal place to get involved in sea kayaking.
It is easy to enter secluded bays round Elba because sea kayaks are easily manageable and can go in low water. The sea kayak is a type of closed canoe, which is fast and stable, it was developed for long trips in the sea. During our silent navigation, we’ll get near to seagulls, cormorants and ‘marangoni’ (a local variety of cormorant)
MOUNTAINBIKE
Elba is a real paradise for anyone really keen on Mountain biking: its climate allows mountain biking all year round and there are the variety of routes suitable for all cyclists.
But what makes Elba an ideal place to pass a mountain bike holiday is the Island’s beauty which, thanks to its morphology, means that we can pedal on wild beaches, along woodland paths or on panoramic crests, refreshing ourselves at a spring, stopping and visiting hermitages built in the most fascinating places and all within a few kilometres of each other.
