{"id":8942,"date":"2022-05-25T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wobblyride.com\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:54:22","slug":"outdoorsy-in-malta-camping-and-hiking-in-comino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobblyride.com\/pl\/2022\/05\/25\/outdoorsy-in-malta-camping-and-hiking-in-comino\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoorsy in Malta – camping and hiking in Comino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for an outdoorsy experience and a nature getaway in Malta, I decided to go camping in Comino. The smallest of the three main Maltese islands (only 3m2<\/sup>) is full of contradictions. It is both a desolated nature sanctuary and an overcrowded touristy destination. Those two worlds are just a few hundred metres away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most people come here for the famous Blue Lagoon, and they don’t even step beyond the popular area. Their visit to Comino is limited to a drink in a hollowed-out pineapple and a perfect Instagram photo with the azure waters. Often they don’t even know what else the island has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is both a blessing and a curse. Each square meter of the Blue Lagoon is packed with people in the summer, which makes it impossible to enjoy this stunning place. On the upside, if you walk just a few hundred metres further, you will feel like the only person on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 30.04.2025: The Maltese authorities introduced a 4,000-person cap on tourists visiting Blue Lagoon. If you’re planning to visit Comino, you have to pre-book using the online system<\/a>.<\/em> The system generates a QR<\/i><\/span> code that you will need to show to the authorities upon arrival.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s so special about Comino?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Comino has only two residents – Salvu Vella, sometimes called the custodian of the island, and his cousin. Every week, a priest from a neighbouring island of Gozo comes to hold a holy mass for the Vella family and bring them medicines and supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salvu has lived on the island for almost 70 years. Living in a place with no shops and nearly no services made him an innovator: he turned his car into an electric one and built a pond equipped with a water pump to provide birds on the island and his family with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comino is also a nature reserve with a spectacular landscape, steep cliffs, clear water and stunning views of the neighbouring islands of Gozo and Malta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n