Amazing Day Trips to Take Around Sardinia by Boat

Midway between Olbia and Costa Smeralda you’ll find the pretty fishing village of Golfo Aranci. Visitors come here for its pristine beaches and to snorkel or free dive in its clear waters. On land, follow the path that leads to Capo Figari, through a nature reserve carpeted with holm oak and juniper trees. Wild sheep known as mouflons graze its slopes and peregrine falcons soar overhead. The panoramic views across the bay are your reward for the slog up to the promontory’s soaring peak.

The sand at photogenic Spiaggia Rosa is, as its name suggests, a pretty shade of pink. It gets its unusual colour from the crushed shells of a micro-organism that grows here and, in order to see it, you’ll need to drop anchor off Cala di Roto on Budelli island, part of the La Maddalena archipelago. Swimming offshore and going on land is forbidden as the area is protected, but even from a distance, it has an extraordinary beauty.