Walking Tours

 

Guided Walking Tours in Malta

 

"What a brilliant way to see the real Malta!''

 

Our Guided Walking Tours are diverse and easygoing enough to capture all the magic around you, Beautiful scenery, exciting cultural bits and good food and wine.

 

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We do this by selecting routes over contrasting terrain and by accommodating you in a wide variety of facilities. It's what we believe an event should be full of surprise and diversity. Don't worry though, you will find our standards high and worth every penny!

 

This is a well paced activity, with easy to lightlymoderate graded walks and there will be time to do some alternative sightseeing, or perhaps to go swimming when you are there. Our tour visits both Malta and Gozo which despite their size, offer a striking variety of scenery: Great cliff lined seascapes, limestone pavements, rocky gorges and cloverstrewn fields.

 

According to the ‘World Database of Happiness’ recently conducted by Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, the Maltese are the happiest people on earth! This may have something to do with the intimate size and complex history of their islands, as well as their attractive landscapes, good cuisine and generally excellent year round climate. The first rains after the long, hot summer bring the landscape to life with an astonishing variety of wild flowers. This is the best general walking period when you’ll find the islands green and lush. Fields are carpeted with fennel, clover, wild iris, myrtle and at least nine types of orchid. In fact a thousand or more species of plants will be in flower by late May.

 

The Maltese Islands offer walkers some of the most stunning views anywhere in the Mediterranean. The first thing to do is to decide what sort of view you prefer – dramatic cliffs plunging into waves, the rocky, scrubland of the garrigue or hidden, lush valleys. En route, you’ll come across mysterious, prehistoric sites, cave chapels and secluded palaces of the Maltese Knights. What more is needed to convince you to try walking in Malta? Well, we offer a range of walks from three bases, including coastal cliffs, inland historical sites and also in the timestaid city of Valletta. An additional attraction for walkers are the low levels of traffic in the countryside in general. Having arrived in Valletta, you will have time to walk round this historical city, perhaps you would like to take a ferry across the harbour to view the impressive fortifications. Next you catch the ferry to Gozo where you spend two nights at beautiful Xlendi Bay: often the location of amazing sunsets.

 

Walks from here take you out to bays across golden limestone plateaus and you could tramp around the citadel at Victoria (Rabat). Back on the mainland, you will stay in Bugibba in St. Paul’s Bay, the place where the great man was shipwrecked (for the second time). Walks around here trace ancient paths past watch towers to more delightful coastal bays.

 

A small sample of the types of Guided Walking Tours are listed below:

 

 

Valletta Heritage Trail is more than the sum of its distance, as there is so much to see on this walk a when you journey around the city walls and visit the main streets. Founded in 1566 by the Knights of St. John, Valletta was mainly constructed in only 3 years and today there is a n impressive legacy of battlements , complex fortifications and ornate city buildings. After lunch you could continue out the suburbs and go to the Rinella Fort where you can see the 100 ton Armstrong Gun…claimed to be the largest cannon in the World!

 

Marsascala and walk to Birzebbuga (17 km/10.5 miles). This is a walk of successive headlands and bays with constantly changing scenery, passing promontories, , old forts and chapels and batteries. Perhaps the main attraction is the pretty harbour at Marsaxlokk with its little bobbing fishing boats called ’ Luzzu’

 

Siggiewi and walk to Dingli, (10km / 6 miles) taking in the highest cliffs of Malta (253metres), beautiful seascapes and old chapels.

 

 

Sannat San Lawrenz (15.5km / 9.5 miles) , but as this passes through Xlendi Bay enroute, walkers might like to save 4.5km by starting direct from the hotel and perhaps walk to Sannat along the coast later on . The walk to San Lawrenz follows terraced paths, minor roads and some times on rock, and some care needs to be taken. It goes to the beautiful Dwejra Bay, Fungus Rock, The Azure Window and the so called, ‘Inland Sea.’ One can imagine that this will be a picturesque stroll.

 

 

Rabat – Dingli – Rabat (12km / 7.5 miles) Had enough of coastal routes? Then try this one around the ancient city of Rabat (Malta), a name hat reflects the time when the Moors occupied the Islands. There is an attractive circuitous route from Rabat to Dingli, on quiet country roads , tracks and paths., giving you a good perspective of the domed St. Paul’s Church from many angles. After you have returned from Rabat, you can go on for another couple of miles on the ‘Rabat Medina Heritage Trail. The Mdina is the walled heart of this town which used to be the Maltese capital as it was easily defended and a long way inland..