Corsica Off The Beaten Path Tips by satara

Beach of Nonza and its messages

Maybe somebody has left you a message? or maybe you want to leave somebody a message?
This beach at the foot of Nonza is the best place for that. I saw many things written with white stones on the gray ground of beach, many nice things :) and the biggest part was written by Italians, the "popolo" which needs to express its feelings :)
I didn't have

Nonza

As I mentioned in my tip "Cap Corse" of places to visit, if you have time, stop at Nonza for visiting it's tower. It's on the high mountain with a splendid views.

Patrimonio

A little town on the way from Bastia to St.Florent famous for its church seen from the road.
We didn't have time to stop there but if you have, please do it :)

Desert of Les Agriates

Staying in the desert of Les Agriates near town Casta we could enjoy the wildness of this desert - for kilometers and kilometers there was nobody, only various green and brown bushes, flowers, smell of dry ground and hot sun, silent mountains, some passing birds and of course, yellow butterflies!
I must admit, it gives some strange sensation - like looking at the nature from another world, a nature in tranquility and free from human interventions.
After finishing our trip we asked ourselves "what was the best part of the trip" and the desert Les Agriates received the 3rd place! I'm happy I saw it.

Port of Centuri

As I mentioned in my tip about "Cap Corse", if you have time it's really great to leave the D80 road and make a little diversion visiting Port of Centuri. The town has some hotels and restaurants, a lovely little port with boats of fishermen as well as a nice rocky shore and a little island near the coast.
The water is full of "life" - just standing on the little rocks I noticed many little crabs, some fishes, some seashells.. Imagine, what you see when you go snorkeling!!

A little cascade

Returning from visiting the top of Cap Corse instead of taking our usual road D80 near the shore, after passing Conchiglio we took a little road D33 which went deeper in the mountains and at some point before returning to the road D80 near Canari we found a little cascade near the road.
It was a perfect moment to have a stop in the shadow of the forest (and escape from the terrible heat of sun in that day) that I remember the cascade and the photos that we made with a great pleasure.
It was really worth to make that way in terms of mountain views and quality of road (as the bigger part of road D80 was under construction in that zone).