Sardinia is an island of 24.000 km² with just 1.6 million people.
This means you can still find untouched places like this one.
Because we went there on a warm day of October we haven’t met anyone on the trails and that made it even more special. If you park the car at the very entrance (in the big parking just out the main paved road) there’s a walk you can do all the way to the beaches. It’s three or four kilometres depending on which routes you take, but we assure it never get boring as the landscape change constantly.
A walk is the best way to understand the landscape and embrace that sense of silence that will escalate by reaching the beach.
The path you start from the car park goes under pine trees and it’s well marked, after one or two kilometres it splits in two ways, one goes around the creek and another one continues in the forest. The closer you get to the beaches you have hills surrounding another smaller creek, you can climb those hills, there’re many hikes all around with enough signs so it’s hard to get lost.
The Bidderosa Oasis extended for 860 hectares of land in which you can find a variety of landscape: from pine trees forest to creeks, from thin white sand to incredible view at the top of the hills.
The impression that this place leaves to us is a sense of wilderness. An area where nature is still in control, without restaurants, resorts of any other human things built around.
It was one of the few times we flew a drone by the sea not having any annoying building in the background.
Once you reach the beaches (there are three) you might feel like being on a desert island. At least that’s what we felt. The sand was untouched, you could tell nobody walked on it for many days, it looked so soft and white that you just wanted to roll over.
Looking at the lines that the waves were making when touching the land was almost hypnotic.
The colour of the water was that of emerald crystal, too good to be true.
The vegetation grows freely around the beaches creating an incredible colour palette starting from the green of the trees to the blue of the water.
This is how the Sardinian marittime areas would have looked like if only humans wouldn’t cut trees and built on its coast in such a savage way.
What we understood by exploring the Bidderosa Oasis is that nature has a delicate ecosystem that needs to be left untouched. If we try to preserve the white of the beaches but destroy the creek behind them we are interfering with its ecosystem and so destroying the balance the area had built in very long time.
