Longish Walks: Italy - Day 13: Lago di Braise to Pragser Wildsee

Confession

Ok. Ok.

I know they are the same place.

We had a spare day and the weather was good so for a change we went for a walk. The map and the tourist center aid that it was possible to do a nice circular walk.

Tourist Information: It's hard and not very many people go there.
Us: Great

So a challenge. The map showed a strenuous but easily doable day walk. So off we went. The lakes were just as pretty as before and the first part was around the lake - for the third time. But then up a valley as opposed to a rock fall like last time.

But the valley soon turned into a rock fall. It was such a pretty valley that the mountains had all decided that they wanted to go there. All of them. The rocks were crowding the trees out.

We walked up to a cottage had a bite and a beer. Thought about buying their home made bread - but had nothing to eat it with, s didn't. Talked to the cottage man as the weather looked possibly iffy by then and we weren't as healthy as we had thought.

He said that back and continuing were about the same - and if we took 'that' short cut, continuing would be slightly shorter and much much prettier. That's the way they go he said.

So we did.

And it was.

Edelweiss

Rare - it was every where.

We ended up walking on it

The path took us up and onto a wide ridge then down the side of the ridge. We even spotted the famed wild horses of the Dolomites. They are very very rare and shy, but we got lucky.