Gardena of Eden Travel Travel You Don't Have to Be a Climber or a Highlander to Have a Heavenly Time in the Italian Dolomites
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THE word "horizontigo" was coined by Martin Green, an accordionist from the at English fenlands, to describe the unease, verging on panic, experienced by Highlanders who spend any length of time away from the protective embrace of our beloved mountains. There was no chance of any such of unease here, in the midst of the Dolomite mountains, reached after a long coach journey from Verona airport, an uphill climb past vineyards overlooked by ancient fairytale castles that cling to precarious mountain perches, through endless tunnels and alongside torrents whose white foam glimmered through the gathering dusk.
Having arrived in Selva di Gardena in velvety darkness, there was no preparation for the breathtaking view of the Dolomite mountains next morning. Compared to the wrinkled, ancient Bens of the Scottish Highlands, the Dolomites are but mewling infants, but they are unbelievably tall, improbably sharp and jagged infants, newly begun on the journey that will in a few hundred million years leave them glacier-smoothed, rainrounded and worn down to the size and shape of the Campsie Fells.See the full content of this document
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Gardena of Eden Travel Travel You Don't Have to Be a Climber or a Highlander to Have a Heavenly Time in the Italian Dolomites
Val Gardena is a beautiful but remote valley ringed by rows of these sharp-toothed, jagged Dolomite peaks. For centuries, communication with the world outside was hazardous and infrequent, so the local population continues to this day to speak, in addition to Ita...
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