Simplon

Pasamos de Italia a Suiza por el puerto del Simplon, a 2.008m de altitud. Tiene 62km de longitud y una pendiente media del 9%. El puerto lo contruyó Napoleón para entrar en Italia con su ...

... again at the top of the pass to take a few pictures of the area. I did this all the way down the mountain toward Brig. Simplon Pass is situated at 2,005 meters (6650' above sea level). This pass is definitely one I need to drive in the spring. Pictures ...

... if we should take a tunnel or not, but our minds were made up when we realised the only tunnel near us was for trains only (Simplon tunnel) and you’d have to pay to put your car onto the train and then get shipped off.  So up the quite dodgy ...

... we had but a short uphill walk to The Hotel Simplon where we found we had a very pleasant room overlooking the way to the Simplon and the Stockhauser Citadel that would have demanded our taxes in the old days.       After a short ...

... and the 'old' tunnel (the Swiss have opened a new more extensive Lotschbergtunnel since our visit which takes passengers to the Simplon and beyond into Italy) went without hitches and we soon made Brig and our final night in Switzerland. I believe the ...

... and you really get scared. Finally, after a long day of bicycle ride we arrived at hotel Stockalperturm, a tower-like building along the Simplon pass road that was used to store goods and now served as a 4* hotel. Beautiful, a MUST on this trip. Trip ...

... happy with where the GPS was taking us.  After driving a couple of miles down towards the valley -- away from the Simplon Pass -- I exited the freeway again, consulted my map, jerked the GPS off the windshield, and reversed my route yet ...

... - http://www.pension-bienvenue.ch/ Jour 3 : samedi 23 mai 2009 -Visiter Lausanne -Dodo : Pension Bienvenue, Rue du Simplon 2, 1006 Lausanne, tel. 41-21-616-2986 (pension pour jeunes femmes seulement, chambre Mylène et moi) ...

Had a gorgeous drive over the Simplon pass to Como with Belinda and XY. I always forget just how close and stunning the lake district is. Staying over at a small town on the end of Lake Lugano (on the Italian side) we came back via Como on Sunday (great ...

... , which had the coolest long curly horns, were not interested at all. It took us five hours to travel twenty kilometres up to the Simplon Pass. Nina just isn’t cut out for carrying all our junk up such long, long steep stretches of road in Summer. ...

... the climbing season, at a price of 998 Swiss Francs per person. Our route to Italy took us over the Alps via the Simplon Pass. Those who know Agatha Christie’s, Murder on the Orient Express, will recognize the Pass. The Swiss love to dig tunnels ...