Sportust 2023 2/4

Italy

We spent 4 nights in the Dolomites. We left Slovenia early in the morning. We stayed near Zenith in the Busc De Crodol apartment. Let me say that the apartment is very nicely furnished. It has a parking lot, separate entrance, bathroom, kitchen, dining room, and bedroom. Because it is in the basement, it is very cool and suitable for summer. The only minor drawback is the humidity, which was quite high at that time (I will attach a video or a link to that).

On the first day, we chose a shorter route, as we drove for almost 6 hours. We were headed to Lago di Limides. We left the car at Pieva and headed towards the lake, where Komoot guided us. After 20 minutes of walking, we heard thunder and in the next 5 minutes it got cloudy, it started to wind, it started to rain… Since we couldn’t get back in time, we took refuge from the storm at the house that takes care of the chairlift in winter. About 10 of us gathered there. We stayed there for about 40 minutes, waiting for the storm to pass.

Thoroughly soaked and with soaked backpacks, we returned to the car in the pouring rain. When we got in the car, we went down into the valley and stopped in the first town of Cencenighe Agordino, where we went to the first store and bought dry clothes. We did this to then walk around the city and the walking path where the walking path also runs.

On the second day, we went to Tre Cime National Park. This is a national park where the three peaks are most famous. If you travel by car, you will add 30 euros to the entrance fee. Also, prepare for a queue. We both arrived at 9:00 and waited about 45 minutes to enter the park. You can drive up to the cottage. In the morning we planned a route around these three peaks via Komoot, as rain was again forecast for the afternoon.

When we got there, we got equipped for our hike and set off. The crown path around these peaks is about 8 km. The ascent is only at the beginning, otherwise, the path rises and falls slowly, and there is no great gradient. All in all, we walked for about 2 hours with stops. The nature was beautiful, the cows graze freely in the pastures. The peaks are rocky, with green meadows in between. It’s worth a visit because everything is very beautiful.

By the time we were walking back to the car it was getting dark, so we were very thankful that we had chosen this route. We spent the afternoon in Cortina d’Ampezzo. We stopped there for coffee, tea, and a croissant. Since K can’t be still, she found a way to Lake Ghedina. The path is about 7 km long because it had rained earlier, everything was a bit muddy, but we survived. I had a little resistance, but I was stunned when we reached a very lovely lake, next to which there was a beautiful house. Everything is surrounded by mountains, so I was very impressed.

On the way to the apartment, we stopped at the Passo Giau pass, because it was a very beautiful sunset…and then it started…the red triangle on the car lit up. Coolant symbol. We had very bad batteries on our phones, the petrol ones were far away, and we were 40 km from the apartment :O

We waited 15 minutes, and Kaya opened the coolant cap. And the coolant was gone. I should also mention that we didn’t have much food and not much water. We poured all the remaining liquid into the coolant container and drove slowly toward our apartment. When we arrived, quite a bit of water had already evaporated.

So Kaya called a tow truck. She arranged for my car to be brought in and her car to be taken away. They said it would take a day or so.

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On the third day, I decided to wash some clothes because we didn’t have a washing machine that fast later in the trip. And what happens? The water started to leak ☹ so we called the owner, who told us that they would come to replace it. So we were waiting for this… I should also mention that there was no signal in the apartment, except for the one at the door hh

In the afternoon they came to replace the washing machine, so I washed and hung the clothes. Then the phone rang and the tow truck arrived and took my car and hers was taken away. Since it was already a bit late, we looked for a place close by to see the sunset. The lake was called del Mis. We rose a couple of 10 meters high and watched the sunset. We returned to the apartment by another route and discovered very nice short passages and beautiful nature.

On the last day, we went back to Lake del Mis and continued our journey. It was again a circular route to the waterfall and back to the lake. We walked 4.5 km and walked for two and a half hours. The walk was shorter, so we walked a little further in the nearby town. The rain got us there too…again haha

This is how we spent our days in Italy.

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Po Italiji

V Dolomitih sva preživeli 4 noči. Iz Slovenije sva se odpravili zgodaj zjutraj. Bivale sva v bližini kraja Zenich v apartmaju Busc De Crodol. Naj povem, da je apartma zelo lepo opremljen, ima svoje parkirišče, ločen vhod, kopalnico, kuhinjo, jedilnico ter spalnico, ker je v kleti je zelo hladen ter primeren za poletje. Edina manjša pomanjkljivost je vlaga, ki je bila kar visoka v tem času (posnetek zgoraj).

Prvi dan, sva si izbrali krajšo pot, saj sva se vozile skoraj 6 ur. Bili sva namenjeni do Lago di Limides. Avtomobil sva pustila pri Pievi in se odpravili proti jezeru, kjer naju je vodil Komoot. Po 20 minutah hoje sva zaslišali grmenje in v naslednjih 5 minutah se je pooblačilo, začelo je pihat, deževat… Ker se nisva mogli pravočasno vrnit sva se pred nevihto zatekli k hiški, ki pozimi skrbi za sedežnico. Tam se nas je zbralo približno 10. Približno 40 minut smo se tam zadrževali in čakali, da neurje mine.

Čisto premočeni in s premočenimi nahrbtniki sva se vrnili do avtomobila še med močnim deževjem. Ko sva prišli v avto sva se spustili v dolino in se ustavili v prvem mestu Cencenighe Agordino, kjer sva šli v prvo trgovino in kupili suha oblačila. To sva storili zato, da sva se potem sprehodili še po mestu in sprehajalni poti kjer poteka tudi sprehajalna pot.

Drugi dan sva se podali v nacionalni park Tre Cime. To je nacionalni park, kjer so najbolj znani trije vrhovi. Če potujete z avtom boste za ceno vstopa všteli 30 eur. Pripravite se tudi na čakalno vrsto. Midve sva prišli ob 9:00 in sva čakali približno 45 minut za vstop v park. Z avtomobilom se lahko povzpneš do koče. Zjutraj sva splanirale preko Komoota pot okrog teh treh vrhov, saj je bilo spet napovedano deževje za popoldan.

Ko sva prišli tja sva se opremili za najin pohod ter se odpravile. Krona pot okoli teh vrhov je približno 8 km. Vzpon je le na začetku, drugače se pot počasi dviguje in spušča, ni velikega naklona. Vse skupaj sva hodili približno 2 uri s postanki. Narava je bila prelepa, kravice se pasejo kar prosto po pašnikih. Vrhovi so kamniti, vmes so ozeleneli travniki. Res je vredno ogleda, saj je vse skupaj zelo prekrasno.

Ko sva se vračali proti avtomobilu se je začelo oblačiti, tako da sva bili zelo hvaležni, da sva si izbrali to pot. Popoldan sva preživeli v Cortini d’Ampezzo. Tam sva se ustavili na kavici, čaju in rogljičku. Ker K ne more biti pri miru je poiskala pot do jezera Ghedina. Pot je približno 7 km dolga, ker je prej deževalo je bilo vse skupaj malo blatno, vendar sva preživeli. Malce sem imela odpor, vendar sem bila osupla, ko sva prišle do zelo ljubkega jezera ob katerem stoji prekrasna hiška. Vse skupaj se nahaja v objemu gora, tako da sem bila zelo navdušena.

Na poti proti apartmaju sva se ustavili pri prelazu Passo Giau, saj je bil zelo lep sončni zahod…in takrat se je začelo…na avtomobilu se je prižgal rdeč trikotnik. Znak za hladilno tekočino. Bili sva z zelo slabimi baterijami na telefonih, bencinske so bile daleč stran, od stanovanja sva bili oddaljeni 40 km :O

Počakali sva 15 minut, Kaya je odprla pokrov za hladilno tekočino. In hladilne tekočine ni bilo več noter. Naj še omenim, da nisva imeli več veliko hrane in ne veliko vode. Vso preostalo tekočino sva nalili v posodo za hladilno tekočino in se počasi odpeljali proti najinemu apartmaju. Ko sva prispeli je že kar nekaj vode izhlapelo.

Tako je Kaya poklicala vlečno službo. Dogovorila se je, da pripeljejo moj avto in odpeljejo njen avtomobil. Rekli so, da bo to trajalo kak dan.

Tretji dan sem se odločila, da operem nekatera oblačila, ker kasneje na potovanju še tako hitro nisva imeli pralnega stroja. In kaj se zgodi? Voda začne puščati ☹ tako sva poklicali lastnico, ki nama je povedala, da bodo prišli zamenjat. Čakali sva torej še na to…naj še omenim, da v apartmaju ni bilo signala, razen čiiisto pri vratih hh

Popoldan so prišli zamenjat pralni stroj, tako sem oprala in obesila oblačila. Nato pa je zazvonil telefon in avto-vleka je prispela in pripeljala moj avtomobil, njenega pa so odpeljali. Ker je bilo že malo pozno, sva poiskali mesto blizu, da bi videli sončni zahod. Jezero se je imenovalo del Mis. Dvignili sva se par 10 metrov visoko ter opazovali sončni zahod. Do apartmaja sva se vračali po drugi poti in odkrile zelo ljubke kratke prehode in prelepo naravo.

Zadnji dan sva šle nazaj do jezera del Mis in nadaljevali pot. Bila je spet krožna pot  do slapa in nazaj do jezera. Prehodili sva 4,5 km in hodili dva uro in pol. Pohodek je bil krajši, zato sva se potrem sprehodili še malce naprej po bližnjem mestecu. Tudi tam naju je dobil dež…spet haha

Tako sva preživeli najine dni v Italiji.