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Calanches de Piana

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Calanches road picture, Corsica

A caravan entering the spectacular but narrow Calanches de Piana drive on the west coast. This route can get hair-raisingly crowded during the summer season as many sections are wide enough for one vehicle only.

Calanches de Piana information:

The Calanches de Piana is an area of strangely eroded red, orange and pink rock formations on Corsica's west coast between Porto and Piana. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and sports some gorgeous, not very strenuous walking trails ranging from one hour to several hours. Not up to the heavy-duty hikes of central Corsica perhaps, but the Calanches walks are well marked and constantly entertaining, with fantastic shapes popping up regularly that conjure up wild images of humans and animals. Below is...

corsica tete de chien picture

...one of Calanches most famous figures, Tete de Chien, or Dog's Head, though looks more like the entire body and head of a dachshund to the bugcrew. Whatever, the dog signals the start of the easiest walk in the area, a one hour ridge hike to Chateau Fort and its panoramic views of the Mediterranean on one side, craggy Paglia Orba mountain on the other and Piana perched in the distance.

Calanches de Piana picture corsica

Part of the one hour each-way Sentier des Muletiers walking trail.

Cairns and Piana image

The highest point of the Sentier des Muletiers and possibly of all Calanches hikes.
In the distance Piana town is visible, a quiet hiking base with a large and famously old-fashioned hotel, the Hotel les Roches Rouges [Red Rock Hotel, one of the great names, and a friendly place too].

Piana photo, Corsica

Another view of Piana town, from Chateau Fort trail.

The Piana photo probably looks more dramatic than the reality, which is a quiet, small and pleasant town, not particularly distinguished and not teetering on the edge of a long drop.
If you're looking for a selection of fine dining in the evening, boat trips, adjacent beach or Spelunca Gorge hikes in the daytime then Porto is a better base, but Porto gets way more crowded than Piana in the summer.

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