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The Giant’s Kettle

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The Giant’s Kettle

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The Giant’s Kettle

Recommended by 32 hikers out of 33

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parco Naturale Regionale Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase

Routes leading to this Highlight may be highly dangerous

Routes comprise technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

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    1. Between Otranto and Porto Badisco – loop tour in the Costa Otranto-Santa Maria di Leuca and Bosco di Tricase Natural Park

    28.0km

    07:52

    260m

    260m

    Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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    May 2, 2021

    They are formed in correspondence with water vortices that carry sands, grains, even large pebbles that affect, dig, smooth layers of rock, even of different hardness and composition, to form almost always cylindrical structures whose regularity mainly depends the size and nature of the eroding agent. The internal walls can be perfectly smooth or represent spiral motifs, indicating a use for the excavation of very fine materials in the first case and coarser in the second.

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      It is one of the most beautiful places to see this erosive effect caused by the action of the sea. This giant's muffler is one of the 3 most beautiful in the area. There are others all mapped on the maps of the open street map.

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        Location: Otranto, Lecce, Apulia, Italy

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