Malta is a small and massively overcrowded country, so from time to time you may yearn for proximity with nature and open spaces. You may also feel that all this restaurant food and cheap wine is not doing much for your waistline. So to kill two birds with one stone, I recommend you take a morning to go and wander along the Xemxija Heritage Trail. There is a little bit of uphill to negotiate, and some scrabbly ground underfoot, but it’s a nice little walk and you are tripping over ancient history at every turn. Here are just a few of the sights to be seen:
Roman Road:
Cart Ruts:
Apiary:
An apiary is a place where bees are kept, by the way, just in case you thought you were looking at a picture of some sort of monkey prison. Anyway, here we are in the 21st century, candy coming out of our ears, and people still love honey. So just imagine how prized it was back in Roman times, when a fig was just about the last word in sweet-toothed treats. Presumably this apiary was a tightly-guarded place in those days.
These are only a few of the sites you can visit on the trail. Others include Roman baths, a troglodyte cave, neolithic tombs, and plenty more. It’s a nice way to stimulate your body and your brain, if you have been spending too much of your time in Malta laying on beaches reading Danielle Steele novels.
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Seems that most people comment but know nothing, they call them cart ruts but they are to be found all over the island, on land and in the sea, and to be honest I doubt if in those days were any wheels, rope just assume, neolithic, Roman, prehistoric, man nonsense…. You are talking thousands of years here.