Touring Malta is easy with massive bus network and competitive hop-on-hop-off bus market. HOHO bus is more suitable when you have long day in peak season schedule. Rental car is of cause the best if you used to left-hand drive like UK.
Travel Tips
- Watch Grand Harbour sail-in and sail-out. It is surrounded by fortified cities and bastions.
- Lift up to upper barrack garden is $1 and down is free.
- Enjoy sunset at lower barrack garden
Commute
Ways to visit Valletta
- short walk from harbor to the lift to upper barrack garden.
- Bus number 122 is a circular bus route driving passengers from the Valletta Waterfront Terminal to the bus terminal at the City Gate in Valletta.
- On cooler days it is recommended for fit people to take a walk up to Valletta through Crucifix Hill. The walk takes around 25 min and sign postings are easy to follow.
Ways to visit Mdina
- take bus number 51, 52 or 53 from Valletta, stop in Rabat and walk a short distance to the entrance of the main gate of the Silent city.
- take taxi by $30 one way or $50 3-hour tour as of November 2017. If you take a taxi tour, know exactly where you want to go or driver may bring you to shops for his commission.
- Hop-on-hop-off bus, although inexpensive $10 per person, may be so crowed and unorganized that you need to fight for boarding.
Ways to visit The Three Fortified Cities of Cottonera
- the dghajsa – the traditional water taxi service.
More about Valletta and Three Cities commute there.
Places We Go
Upper Barrakka Gardens
Enjoy Grand Harbor night view here.
Lower Barrakka Gardens
A great place for Grand Harbor sunset view.
Three Cities
Saint John’s Co-Cathedral
Grand Master’s Palace & Armoury
Mdina
Rabat
St. Paul and St. Agatha’s catacombs, Church of St. Paul and St. Paul’s grotto
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