Apennines   (Italy 🇮🇹)   –   4 days

DAY 1 – Rome

From Rome airport, you’re transferred to your Boutique hotel for tonight. From there, our historian and storyteller Sandrina guides you along ancient Rome, relating the history and modern-day global challenges by telling sticky stories. Moreover, she guides along hidden dining & wining gems, coffee, wine & cocktail bars,  Azienda’s, and 2 top-notch restaurants with scenic views.

Day 2 – Rally & Rewilding Apennines

After dinner, you receive your classic or electric vehicles and the rally road books. In equippes of 2, you drive the prologue and first stage of the regularity rally (2,5 hrs). These take you to and into the Abruzzo National game reserve. At the finish, you meet with your private mountain & wildlife guide at the local Apennine Wolf Museum. She introduces you to the basics of the Apennine mountains, and its rewilded wildlife and provides you with your ski touring and wildlife tracking gear & equipment.

Fully equipped, you start your guided tour through the snow on the hunt for wildlife tracks and Italy’s big five. On snowshoes, you’ll arrive at your private catered refuge in the middle of the pristine winter wilderness (5h walk, 16 km, 400 mtrs ascent). In this remote private refuge a sundowner, warm fireplace and lovely dining & wining await. The day is finished outdoors around the fireplace where we, gaze at the Milky Way, and listen to the rhythm of nature and howling wolf packs, before a good night’s rest.

Day 3 –Wildlife Tracking, Rally & Recover

Wake up by the first rays of sunlight and surrounded by mountains. You enjoy an early morning snowshoe touring and wildlife tracking experience (3h walk – 12km – 600 m ascent). We have our breakfast back at the refuge before we leave again for tracking more wildlife and head down to the valley for lunch (4h walk – 16km – 400 m descent).

Time for stage 2 of the rally! In 3 legs (total: 3 hrs) the rally winds through 3 rewilded nature reserves. Anticipate an extremely beautiful, scenic route through the wild, uninhabited Apennines. The finish is in a fortified medieval village, inside the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga national park. You wine & dine in a truly unique local restaurant and you stay in a pristine ‘Albergo’ that honours the history and luxury creating an immersive lifetime experience. Celebrate the finish of the rally and fall asleep at the sound of your fireplace.

DAY 4 – Rally & Return

This morning no early rise, but time to recover in this unique medieval, yet luxurious environment. Take a private bath, walk around, reconsider life and relax. The final (neutral) stage of the rally takes you back to Rome in 2 hours. In Rome, you enjoy your last moment together in an exclusive archaeological garden where you can rethink your Rome, Rally, Rewilding experience, before returning home (filled with lifetime memories).