Travelling Alone In Sardinia
It’s a disadvantage. In popular tourist spots like the northeast coast, along the Golfo di Orosei, and in and around Alghero, not a lot of places offer single rooms. In these places solo travelers will probably have to pay a double-room rate, and in high summer the single supplement can be very expensive. Budget travelers are better off in B&Bs and agriturismi, where the rates are much more reasonable and many places charge per person rather than per room. Word of caution, though, in high summer this can be a problem in smaller places as they tend to be cramped due to the number of visitors.
Traveling solo will be easier for men that it is for women especially in interior villages. This isn’t due to safety or security concerns but more because of the largely of old-fashioned local attitude. In rural areas it is not considered respectable for a woman to travel alone but the most you have to bear will be uncomfortable stares wondering why a woman like you would be traveling alone. You may also earn incredulous stares if you visit bars and restaurants on your own. In addition, Sardinia is not used to backpackers. Sardinia culture is quite tight-knit, so you may find yourself feeling a little lonely at times as they aren’t much for talking to strangers but Sardinians are actually very friendly and helpful.
Other than these, normal common-sense rules apply. Make sure your valuables are safely stored, keep your belongings near you and avoid unlit streets and parks in Cagliari and Sassari at night.
oh my gosh, i live in Sardinia, i’m a girl, and being a woman i feel seriously offended from the falsities written!!
probably spiaggia bambina (?) (what means spiaggia bambina? beach child????) is a famous anthropoligist expert about sardinia that claim to write this:
“In rural areas it is not considered respectable for a woman to travel alone but the most you have to bear will be uncomfortable stares wondering why a woman like you would be traveling alone.”
spiaggia bambina should inform herself that inland rural sardinia has got a mathriarcal society, where the woman has total freedom, where also 80 years ago was normal see women making typical male jobs like miner, mayor or mechanic.
according which freak theory is it not considered respectable for a woman to travel alone ??? for the stares??? and if you are a man, visiting alone an isolated village inside sardinia, do you think that villagers don’t you say you becuase you are alone visiting their land?
This is completely wrong!!! I am a norwegian woman, and I have travelled 3 times by myself in sardinia - all over the place. I love it!! And I love sardinians - they are amazingly hospitable, curious, pleasant - AND very supportive of woman travelling on their own. You will get some attention of men wanting contact, but thats only normal. They have respect for women, and my indipendancy and individuality seems to create only curiousity, warmth and reckognition..
I have never cared wether its respectable or not to travel on my own as a woman - and sardinian men will respect a woman that respect herself.
We make the rules ourselves - each one of us!!!