The Dolomites: Tre Cime di Lavaredo

in #travel16 days ago

There is a huge car park at the Rifugio Auronzo, just besides the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Drei Zinnen - Wikipedia: Tre Cime di Lavaredo), in my eyes the most iconic rocks not only in the Dolomites.

To get to this parking lot you have to drive 16 km / 9.94 miles on a beautiful toll road from Misurina at about 1,756 m / 5,761 feet up to the Rifugio Auronzo at 2,320 m / 7,611 feet.
It was a Monday and I thought on a work day there wouldn't be many people, but I was wrong, because at 11am the road was already closed due to full parking lots. So I came back in the late afternoon because most people had left by then and they opened the road again. I paid 60 Euros toll for staying up there over night (30 Euros until midnight and 30 Euros for the second day).

As said above, the road is beautiful and I enjoyed driving, but you could have bad luck and a slow camper drives in front of you what would make the drive quite unpleasant because there are not many chances to overtake ... I've been lucky

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