Elba Exploring Part 3

When looking at what to do today I saw the Cabinovia Monte Capanne and knew we had to ride in them once. It was almost the same price round trip and one way so we decided to do a round trip ticket and it was so fun! The “cars” are these little 2 person cages which is…odd. You just stand in the cage as it goes up and down. It was so strange I was like well we have to do this now. And it was nicer than the enclosed cars as they didn’t get super hot in the sun and lots of fresh air. But we tried not to move too much as they would swing a bit. And you basically stopped every time someone got on/off so it can take a while to get to the top. I was glad we decided to ride them!

At the top you could walk around a bit and go up to a panoramic viewpoint and that was gorgeous! We saw all the spots we stopped at today and talked about where else we were going to go now that we can see everything. It was gorgeous and I loved it! Plus while we were up there we saw some Nubian Ibex! They were running down the side of the mountain then stopped to hang out in the shade so we sat and watched them for a bit. They are technically in the 7th photo, but too far away to be able to make them out. So that was amazing.

Then it was back down and on to our next stop, Marciana Marina. I had this marked as to go to get some gelato after our hike, but it was some pre-dinner gelato so I don’t turn into a cranky hungry monster before we get home and make food (I knew dinner would be really late so needed something to tide me over). The place has interesting flavors and I tried their Red pepper, melon, and chili which was…odd. Spicy, like not my mouth on fire but it really hits your throat and it wasn’t the best flavor. I definitely couldn’t have eaten a bowl of that, but I was glad I tried it as it sounded odd and was. We decided to get a chocolate sea salt and caramel cup to share and it was just alright. The caramel wasn’t like a gooey swirl, it was hard little pieces that I thought was ice at first. Not awful, but not somewhere I would specifically go back to again.

Then we wandered that waterfront which was pretty nice and then it was back to our place to eat dinner. It was a long, but relaxing day. We left here about 9:30 and got home around 7 so a full day! I loved it! It really made me think we could have used a few more days here. At least one, though we kept seeing road closed signs and caution tape up all over with signs says “pedestrians can’t cross the road during the car race” so we looked that up and there is a rally car race this weekend (starts on Friday afternoon so we need to actually look at the signs tomorrow to see when the roads are going to close to make sure we can get to the ferry). So an extra day wouldn’t have worked out well as we wouldn’t have been able to go anywhere. Next time though I will plan for longer here!Read more