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Stage 7 - Dolomites - Alpe di Siusi 2nd to 4th October
Surprisingly a fair chunk out of two hours, heading generally north east. I expected lots of stunning consistent scenery, a bit like crossing Switzerland, but it became quite urban and busy, with a toll motorway, seemingly taking many Germans back to their homeland (I was going to write Fatherland, but not sure that's acceptable, so I won't 😜).
Suddenly though these amazing mountain shapes came into view, to call them "sawtooth" really would be an understatement...really awe inspiring....these were the massif of Alpe di Siusi, but I decided to persevere to Val di Funes.
Again through a lower valley with a full on packed motorway, but about 10km from a turn, I climbed into the hanging valley of the valley, with another amazing backdrop. The valley was lovely too, so I pulled over to find a campsite.
There weren't any at all, in fact Siusi was the best bet, and I had to go that way anyway....so after about 40 mins I'd got a spot on a campsite (29 Euro per night for ref) with a full blown direct ñview of the Alpe di Siusi backdrop from my tent.
I did a recce in the early evening up and down the valley, and again had a pizza in Siusi and two beers!
The following morning, I decided to take the cable car from Siusi up to over 5,000ft to Compaccio, the start point of the Tour Gröden, essentially a circuit of three seperate mesmeric mountain massifs, also including dropping into two villages. The second, Santa Ulrich I decided, sensibly, to catch another gondola to take me back up, as I'd lost a lot of height dropping into The Valley.
The route was supposed to be a red route but it was absolutely fine (Italians do exaggerate!). I was overwhelmed though by E-MTBs often getting overtaken on some of the long ascents 😫. Also I kept hooking up with a Finish family who were on the same route, they were really nice...especially the Mum! I must visit Finland 😘
Back at the Compaccio gondola I had two beers, a panino and an Apple strudel (btw this región of Italy is totally German, must be history to it?).
I took the tarmac road all the way down to Siusi, with exhilarating speed !
To complete possibly the best bike ride I've done, certainly on this trip.❤️
But where to next, one last Dolomites stopover, but further east?🤷♂️
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