Top Puglia Hiking Tours

Along country roads, among trulli, farmhouses and dry stone walls, I will show you the places I love and experience every day by pedaling together for 20 km (about 12 miles). We start from Alberobello, the capital of the trulli, towards Locorotondo, the most evocative village in the Valle d'Itria: where a tasty stop at a traditional local bakery awaits us. We will taste the typical Apulian focaccia freshly baked by Giovanni, accompanied by a glass of wine. Afterwards, before returning to Alberobello, we will stop at the pastry shop of Signora Maria to taste the almond sweets of our tradition. On the way back we will consume seasonal fruits, picking them directly from the trees (cherries, figs, fioroni, pears, blackberries, mulberries). It won't be a tourist experience, not a classic e-bike tour but a little adventure: local life, away from crowded places. *Minimum height required for participants 163 cm (5'4 ft)

Immersed in the Alta Murgia National Park, walking here one has the sensation of being in a large open space in which one can wander with one's gaze towards infinite horizons characterized by the pungent smells of mint and wild thyme in the intense green of the wheat fields or rocky pastures among the evident yellow of the ferula, meeting orchids and birds of prey. In this land, emperors, peasants, shepherds, woodsmen, together with the climate, have made the landscape and its culture unique. On the way we will meet stupendous farmhouses, we will cross oak woods, along the ancient sheep tracks of transhumance we will discover jazzi and post offices, we will travel along panoramic mule tracks and among the wheat fields we will admire large haystacks and ancient cisterns. On the hills, flocks of sheep will blend in with the characteristic sharp rocks that give this area its name. We will reach the octagonal stone crown isolated on a hill at 540 meters above sea level. from where a vast panorama is dominated.

Explore beyond Bari with a private half-day tour to the enchanting town of Matera in Basilicata. Get picked up at your hotel or the address of your choice in Bari and set out on a sightseeing excursion to the village of Matera, known for its striking cave dwellings. Join your guide for a walking tour focused on the history, culture, and food of Matera.

Explore the Valle d’Itria countryside and unique "trulli" dwellings of Alberobello on two wheels with this small-group e-bike excursion from Martina Franca. Pedal through the vineyards and olive groves that cover the valley to reach the hill town of Alberobello, then take a break to explore the “trulli” neighborhoods. Finally, relax at a nearby historic wine estate to sample local red and white wines.

Don’t get lost while exploring new trails on this guided hiking tour of the Costa Otranto Regional Nature Park in eastern Apulia. Highlights include exploring Otranto’s historic center, visiting the legendary Torre del Serpe coastal tower, and checking out Cava di Bauxite, a colorful quarry lake surrounded by red rock cliffs on the site of an old cave.

We will walk southwards along the Trani seafront, to reach the path of the Cliffs. Along this rocky coast with high and continuous cliffs overlooking the sea, far from the city, it will be possible to admire the colorful bee-eater, and listen to its unmistakable "crane-crane" sound. It is a migratory bird with a wingspan of about half a meter, which overwinters in tropical Africa and reaches our territory at the end of spring, to nest along the sandy walls. After reaching a shady pine forest on the sea, fascinating spontaneous orchids will sprout, these deceptive plants that with their strange shapes and colors always manage to attract, in addition to insects, nature and photography enthusiasts. The route will end in Torre Olivieri, a lookout tower located on the coast, in the Lama Paterna, an erosive furrow typical of the Apulian landscape, which conveys the meteoric waters from the karst plateau of the Murge towards the Adriatic Sea.

With this short walk, equipped with binoculars, we will discover the rich local fauna of the Ariscianne-Boccadoro wetland, a green oasis for many species of permanent and migratory birds, but also for amphibians, reptiles and mammals. In a place where the reeds dominate, among which, fresh water meets salt water. We will move around the nineteenth-century tank of Boccadoro, built to collect resurgence water and which was supposed to serve as a basin to serve drinking water to the city of Trani (BT). Then on the dirt roads, flanked by tamarisks, which cross the marshes and cultivated fields of Ariscianne where the ancient Aveldìus once flowed here, depicted in the "segmentum VI" of the Tabula Peutingeriana; an ancient river that originated from the Murge, lapped the village of Andria to the west and must have flowed into a sort of small port between Turenum (Trani) and Bardulí (Barletta). Today its bed is traced by the Ciappetta-Cammaggio and Ariscianne canals.

Visiting Matera at sunset is a unique and unforgettable experience. The Sunset in Murgia offers superb colours and when the sun goes down the city turns into a real nativity scene. During the tour, you will see the local nightlife and appreciate the particularities of the city in the evening. The tour is recommended during the warmer seasons, to ensure a pleasant walk in the evening when the temperatures are less sultry.

1) From the ancient Posta Santa Croce walking along the transhumance routes in Puglia. We will start from Dolmen La Chianca, a prehistoric megalithic tomb from the Bronze Age. Crossing one of the typical blades of this territory we will reach a vast complex of karst origin characterized by the presence of caves where in 1955 a femur belonging to an adult individual of Homo sapiens neandertalensis was found. 2) Along the sea with a fantastic coastline full of sea caves that they were inhabited since the Neolithic, as attested by the materials found by Majellaro and Prelorenzo. We will discover the Caves of Ripalta. Along this stretch of the Via Francigena you can also admire the typical Apulian rural landscape with its dry stone walls, haystacks and small houses. We will continue on a short stretch through a fantastic meadow of spontaneous orchids and we will be able to reach Cala Pantano, a small inlet created by the blades, erosive furrows typical of the Apulian landscape.

Discover a side of Puglia that few other visitors get to see—and enjoy an active and immersive sightseeing experience—on this private, half-day hiking tour. Pick between morning and afternoon start times, meet your guide in central Otranto, and wear comfortable hiking gear. On your coastal trek, you’ll discover natural landmarks like the Grotta della Monaca and Cave of the Hermit. Then, go for a cooling swim in the Bay of the Turks.

With this adventurous excursion we will guide you along on the Cape of Otranto Trail to admire Lighthouse of Punta Palascia and the Nature Trails of the Otranto-Leuca Nature Park. We will make an exciting panoramic and extreme Trekking, walking the coastal paths on high cliffs, visit the legendary Tower of the Serpe, walk on the Sentiero delle Orte, go up the coast exploring the former Bauxite Quarry, its little red lake and the striking red earth dunes. We will continue along Il Sentiero di Capo d'Otranto, we will do an adventurous trek, we will go through the fossil forest and explore the Grotta del Vento and the scenic Grotta del Ciclope, we will arrive at the Lighthouse to stop on the easternmost point of Italy, We will walk along the Paths of the Via Francigena until we reach Masseria Cippano, from here we will walk the Sentiero delle Memorie from the Colle dei Martiri. From here we will return to Otranto to the starting point where the hike will end.

Head into an unexplored world of caves, petrified reefs, freshwater springs, wild canyons, and more on this trekking and caving tour. Led by your guides, you’ll navigate the Cervi Valley in Porto Badisco, taking verdant hiking trails to underground caves, spelunking your way to the bottom. From fantastic coastal panoramas to deep, dark, subterranean discovery, this tour has it all.

Come with us to discover the coast of the rising sun to get to know the unique and evocative places guided by our team, we will go to the discovery of secret places nestled between the coasts of our seas that will leave you breathless.

Discover one of the most suggestive and magical places in the Apulian Mediterranean scrub. Take a stroll until reaching the beaches, the coves, and the ancient olive trees of the Torre Guaceto nature reserve.

3 days of trekking to discover Imperial Puglia, its rural and wild landscapes, its ancient maritime and Murgian culture. The feeling will be that of being in a large open space in which to wander with your gaze towards infinite horizons characterized by the pungent smells of mint and wild thyme in the intense green of the wheat fields or rocky pastures between the evident yellow of the ferula, meeting orchids and lesser kestrels. In this land, emperors, farmers, shepherds, lumberjacks, together with the climate, have made the landscape and its culture unique.

It will be a real journey through time. This tour starts from the still undeveloped part of Alberobello ... the last inhabitants were there more than 100 years ago. Precisely in this place it will be possible to relive the origins of the Trulli and dry stone walls and understand what their origins were. the Excursion will let us observe the wonderful holm oaks, fragneti and downy oaks... the oaks that have allowed, together with the Apulian limestone, the life of thousands of citizens over the centuries. It will be a journey through Time, in Knowledge and immersed in Nature. Tour in complete relaxation and isolated from the most popular tourist circuits.

On board our Iveco Military Vehicle you will discover real corners of paradise. The experience will start from the city center at 3.00 pm and will travel along the old rural walkways (tratturi) used in antiquity to connect the countryside with the city. On the way we will make stops within millenary olive groves, drainage blades and coastal landscape. In some places, in order not to disturb the local fauna, it will be necessary to get out of the vehicle and walk.

This tour will allow you to relax and visit the city of the Sassi of Matera comfortably aboard an Ape buggy. You don't have to think about parking or the road ahead, but just enjoy your holidays.