Diversing Sicily
Our flight to Trapani arrived at 23:30 on Saturday and it took about on hour from the arrival to get our car and another hour to drive through the Sicilian countryside to San Vito Lo Capo. We finally met our local contact around 2 am and soon after that got our apartment. After all the hashle at four a'clock in the Sunday morning we got to bed.
Wakeup on the Sunday "morning" was around noon and of course we felt dizzy and tired after the long night. Luckily Sunday was the last day of the annual Couscous festival so we decided to head out to see the city and to eat. Surprisingly the whole city was like a marketplace packed with turists, busses and cars. Street kitchens offered different tastes of couscous in the international event. And of course couscous was our main menu for the day.
Initial idea for the afternoon was to head out to the local crags and climb few routes before the sunset. Initial plan was good but finding the planned crag wasn't too obvious. After several attempts we finally found a dirt road, closed by a wire gate, heading towards the rocky beaches. At that stage the sun was already setting so there was no reason to drive any further, no climbing today. Instead of the planned climbing session we decided to locate other clinbing crags for the upcoming days.
During the day we saw different sides of the Sicily. Urban cily and beach life packed with tourists, old and abandoned houses, waste dumps just behind the corner, cattle pasturing on the large rugged fields and a beautiful sunset to the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily has many diversing faces. See our photos below.
Mika Huhtamaki /
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Mika Huhtamäki is a part time amateur rock climber, mountain biker and a snowboarder from Finland who travels often in Italy.
Wakeup on the Sunday "morning" was around noon and of course we felt dizzy and tired after the long night. Luckily Sunday was the last day of the annual Couscous festival so we decided to head out to see the city and to eat. Surprisingly the whole city was like a marketplace packed with turists, busses and cars. Street kitchens offered different tastes of couscous in the international event. And of course couscous was our main menu for the day. 
Initial idea for the afternoon was to head out to the local crags and climb few routes before the sunset. Initial plan was good but finding the planned crag wasn't too obvious. After several attempts we finally found a dirt road, closed by a wire gate, heading towards the rocky beaches. At that stage the sun was already setting so there was no reason to drive any further, no climbing today. Instead of the planned climbing session we decided to locate other clinbing crags for the upcoming days.
During the day we saw different sides of the Sicily. Urban cily and beach life packed with tourists, old and abandoned houses, waste dumps just behind the corner, cattle pasturing on the large rugged fields and a beautiful sunset to the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily has many diversing faces. See our photos below.
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