MALTA NATURE TOURS

This half or full day nature-guided tour based on small groups for attain a high quality tour with particular personal attention and custumisation. The first part of the tour is based on one of the largest valley and water course in Malta. The repeated dams along the wide valley forms a serious of interesting lake-like ponds and hence the name Chadwick 'lakes'. The water flooding over the dams gives an effect of water falls but, of course, they are far from spectacular as the Niagara falls!!! These are best appreciated between November and March, though this tour is carried out from October to mid June. The water course brings about a number of interesting trees, plants and fauna species related to water habitats, such as the Poplar, Willow, Water cress, Water buttercups and Pantain, and many other species.

The second part of the tour includes a different habitat, the Mediterranean Garrigue, with related plants and fauna adaptedt to this rocky and rather dry habitat. The chamaleon, wall lizard, and oscillated skink might be encountered here, depending the luck of the day!. A number of garrigue plants are on the other hand guaranteed, including few endemic species like the Maltese fleabane and the Maltese Broomrape (a parasitic plant). In mid-March, another endemic plant to the list is the Maltese Spider Orchid.

The third part consists of a walk along the Bingemma area including views of the prehistoric Cart Ruts, the Bingemma valley or gap, the Bingemma chapel, and the Bronze-Age tombs (est. 4000 yrs yold).

The fourth part is adorned by a panaromic walk over the victoria lines. Here you feel a person of power with the Northern part of Malta beneath your fett! Others have described this part as walking on air, while others have expressed to feel like a bird.

The consequent remaining parts of this nature walk are again in pure countryside terrains in the Mgarr/Bingemma/Mtarfa area, with further rare or aromatic plants to discover and admire their beauty, fragrance or aromatic scent. This is a track away from the normal tourist traffic, known only from our brave leaders. The tour is 7-8km, and for good walkers, it could even be extended to 11km depending the time managment of the particular tour.

The tour is aimed for a duration of 7 hours in cool days and 4 hours (half day) for very warm days in end of May and June. A half da tour can be combined with a visit (and lunch) at Mdina, but we only deal with the nature part, and hence we can drop you to Mdina around 1pm. It can be also arranged that you are picked up from Mdina after lunch (typically 1pm) and follow a half-day tour after.

Unfortunately, buses do not pass close to Chadwick lakes so you have to depend on our transport or a taxi (much more expensive). The tour is usually performed any day between Sat and Tue, depending request and weather forecast. Picnic style lunch can be order from us too. Contact us for further details.

Please email or phone on (+0356)79546987 for further details, reservatins, bookings or special arrangments.

Photo Gallery of this tour:

Pic 01		The Chadwick lakes.
Pic 02		Water-loving plants along the valley and ponds of water in chadwick lakes.
Pic 03		Bridges along the lakes seem to split the hibernating white poplar trees at the back and the Alisma and Buttercups in front.
Pic 04		Pictoresque views of Mtarfa during he walk
Pic 05		Numerous Star-shaped buttercups floating over the water gathered in the valley running between hills. Wetland biodiversity explored during the tour.
Pic 06		The mysterious, prehistoric cart ruts can be viewed along our walk
Pic 07		Aleppo Pine trees over Dwejra area
Pic 08		Rock cut tombs dating from the Bronze-Age.
Pic 09		Breath-taking views always guaranteed, as in this case the plains of Bingemma and Mgarr.
Pic 10		The famous chapel of Bingemma (not visited)
Pic 11		Bingemma Gap
Pic 12		Looks like the great wall of China
Pic 13		More views
Pic 14		Agriculture areas quite common along the walk
Pic 15		The Mediterranean rocky garrigue and its peculiar wild plants explored and explained

Tourists Feedback!

Hanna Stenberg, Germany

The nature of Malta is fantastic, and this tour hghlights it very well. Money well spent compared to other tours I taken on the islands. The combination of a half-day tour in the morning at Chadwick Lakes and a deserved lunch at the nearby old city of Mdina worked really well, though I will book a full day tour next time I have the opportunity.

Ekaterina Rostova, Russian living for a while in Malta

I and my family chosen this tour and it was very interesting and beautiful. It was surprising that there are a good number of plants which are common or almost similar in Moscow. I really like the fragrance of the Maltese plant fleabane and the thyme, while the orkids are so strange beautiful plants. This guided nature walk had a bit of everything, and our kids enjoyed it a lot and had one of their longest sleeps at night that I remeber of! My husband liked a lot to see the river-like water and waterfalls over the walls and the speciel vegetation that grew at the sides of the water and under the trees. A special tour that you are really in touch with nature and well explained by the leader.

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