Hotel Montana Cortina D'Ampezzo
Corso Italia 94 Cortina D'Ampezzo, Belluno, Veneto, 32043, Italy
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Al Val Gardena in i Dolomiti
... playing accordions, a male community choral group with about 20 local men in it, and a group of folk dancers mostly in their 20's. All three were quite talented and fun to watch. Gretchen even got to dance when the dancers came out and grabbed members of the audience for the last song.
On the last day, Gretchen and I hiked up the Sasso Lungo to climb the via ferrata up to the summit. We started with a 500 m hike to the lower pass. Along the way, ...
Friday 5th August – Day 5 - Vipento to Dolom
... left Sully put to keep our spot on the campsite and got the local bus which too bout half hour.... We arrived at the Lake to see a extremely varied range of outfits ranging from a few in shorts and t shirts, like us and a few in full hiking gear with ponchos!! We were a bit confused as the weather had been good when we were at the campsite but as we got to the lake there were a few spots of rain coming down... We wandered to the lake and the spots started getting ...
On to the mountains. . .
... seashells embedded in the rock that are 200 million years old. Like prisoners on a death march, we went beyond exhaustion, beyond pain, beyond disbelief to a sense of pure reality: all we knew was that we had to keep moving no matter what. Finally, at almost 8 pm we made it to our pizzeria, sat for a few blessed minutes while our order baked, then carried it back to our garni to eat in exhaustion. Except for about 30 minutes of sitting, we had been on our feet ...
A Pass on the Mountain
... frontier into the Dolomites and across three more high passes before the day was done. We stopped at the small town of Arabba which was positioned in the centre of this mountainous region and from which the determined could ride 17 passes in a single bum-numbing day. Leaving Arabba the next morning the Passo Pordoi started at the end of town. I remember thinking, hell, I'm not ready for this yet as the ...
Around the dolomites
... of the mountain, but scenery is beautiful at the ground level too.
Then we got lost, we where suppose to go Passo di Falzarego to see the Cingue Torri, but we ended up in Passo Giau. That can happen if you not precise enough with you navigator. But the site was beautiful, I think I got my second best picture from there, so I'm not sad.
One word of advice. If you are suffering on motion sickness, take the medication. There is no straight road in Dolomites, but ...



