Itinerary

Day 1:
Arrival at Trapani

Arrival to Trapani (Vincenzo Florio), and make your way to Marsala (public bus and taxi are available). Upon arrival collect your bikes. If arriving into Palermo airport, you may need a prearranged private transfer to Marsala, this is not included in the tour package and it needs to be booked in advance. In Marsala consider a guided visit to one of the local wineries: Vini Pellegrino or Donnafugata.

Day 2:
Ride to Nubia (46km)

Your bike ride to Nubia is an opportunity to enjoy a visit to Mozia, a little island with a Punic museum. The quiet road along the sea will lead you from Marsala to the dock where you take the boat. On arrival you’ll enjoy a magnificent view of the Salt Mine and the wind mills. Nowadays, a foundation established by the Whitaker family, winemakers in Sicily. preserves this little paradise. In the Archaeological Museum it is possible to see the ruins of a considerable civilization, complete with the harbour and the cemetery. Some of the finds displayed in the Museum have a distinctly Egyptian influence, while others are probably Hellenic.

Day 3:
Nubia bike loop (55km)

Today you don’t need to move far. Several choices: you can have a rest in the baglio enjoyng the swimming pool or taking the chance to visit Trapani centre or Favignana or you may go to Levanzo island. Today is also perfect to enjoy a bike loop to visit the medieval Erice, on the top of the hill which you can see from your. You can get to the town by the cableway too (close on monday) or by the bike.

Day 4:
Nubia - San Vito Lo Capo

Today you will travel to the sea hamlet of San Vito Lo Capo and its nice sandy beach.

“Saint Vitus Cape" is a charming coastal town in the Trapani area with a great beach. Extending below Mount Cofano, a high pointed limestone cliff visible from a distance, San Vito is near the Zingaro Nature Reserve and the hamlet of Scopello, where some scenes of the movie Ocean's Twelve were filmed in 2004. San Vito is known for its annual couscous festival. A good place for a vacation, and with Erice and Segesta it rapresents one of the Sicily's historic jewels.

Don’t miss the traditional couscous or kuskus, a Berber dish which is known in all of the north Africa area. It is consisting of spherical granules made by rolling and shaping moistened semolina wheat and then coating them with finely ground wheat flour. You can enjoy it with the vegetables or the fish.

The Couscous Festival at San Vito Lo Capo is a combination of culture, tradition and culinary art. This event is held in Sicily in September. The best chefs from the Mediterranean area compete with their best recipes.

Day 5:
Rest day in San Vito Lo Capo

Today is the opportunity to enjoy your relaxing time in San Vito Lo Capo sandy beach and take a swim in the warm Mediterraneo sea, having a taste of the northafrican coucous and the local ice cream “caldo – freddo”

Day 6:
Hiking: San Vito Lo Capo – Scopello (5km)

Today a private shuttle will take you to the San Vito Lo Capo entrance of the Zingaro Nature Reserve where you’ll enjoy a wonderful hike along the rolling coastline to Scopello. Your bikes will be collected at this point as you will not need them any more and your luggage will be transferred to Scopello. This stretch of coastline has become a nature reserve, the first established in Sicily since 1980. It is one of the most unspoiled and charming areas in Sicily and can be explored only on foot. You can stop for a swim at any of the little bays along the coast path or climb up the mountain to enjoy a wonderful view of the Gulf of Castellammare. Arriving at the ancient village of Scopello, a tiny hamlet developed around an ancient ‘baglio’ dating back to the 17th-century, you will find it is one of the most picturesque places in the province of Trapani.

Staying in an agriturismo hotel that is closer to the exit of the Zingaro Nature Reserve, you will have a short walk in the evening of approx 500 metres into town where there is a choice of eating places.

Day 7:
Ride to Segesta (32km)

Easy and short bike ride today to Segesta. Take your time to enjoy this magic place! 

The Archaeological site of Segesta is one of the most important and representative in Sicily. The site is renowned for its temple, one of the most iconic views of Sicily, and for the amphitheatre facing the Gulf of Castellammare from the distance, like a shell placed on the hilltop. Segesta, together with Erice and Entella, was a powerful city of the Elymians, a population coming from North-western Turkey, and was involved in several conflicts with Selinunte. The town enjoyed periods of glory during the first Punic War, under the rule of the Greeks and the Romans; it was
later destroyed by the Vandals, occupied by the Saracens and ceased to exist in the early Middle Ages.

Day 8:
Departure from Segesat

Upon check you your tour comes to an end,