Triei is the kind of village a conventional guidebook skips. A few hundred inhabitants, no beach, no famous monument. But it has one quality that counts a great deal in Ogliastra: it sits where the roads divide.
From here you can drop down to the sea in the morning and climb to the plateau in the afternoon without retracing your route. On a multi-day trip along the east coast that matters more than the view from the window.
