Category: mountains
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Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 4
On our second day of this road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland, we drove from Andermatt (after a detour to Airolo and St Gotthard pass) to St. Moritz. How about a bit of Bach for this stretch of the road trip ? We took Hauptstrassen 19 running alongside the river Vorderrhein (which feeds…
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Viamala-schlucht, Graubünden
On the second day of our road trip to St. Moritz, after St Gotthard Pass (6,909 ft; 2,106 m), we detoured to see the Viamala Gorge (Viamala-schlucht) in the canton of Graubünden. Click the following links to see our whirlwind tour of these Alpine mountain passes Grimselpass, Furkapass and St Gottard pass. The fourth pass…
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Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 3
For the first night of this short trip, we stayed in Andermatt (1437 m). It is a mountain village in the canton of Uri, and has been the historical center of north-south and east-west traverses of Switzerland. The village is connected by three Alpine passes: the Oberalp Pass (6,706 ft; 2,044 m.) to the east connecting the…
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Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 2
Continuing with our road trip through the Swiss Alps (the start of the series is here) … Our selection of music to accompany us to the second mountain pass of the day is by Max Richter and Louisa Fuller. To get to Andermatt where we spent the first night of the road trip, we had…
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Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 1
Like millions of people in 2020, due to the pandemic, we worked from home, stayed away from crowded places, and stopped traveling. Before the arrival of winter and the possibility of another extended lockdown period, we decided to go on a short road trip within Switzerland in September. Driving your own car is safer than…
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Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira
This is the last post of a series that documented our second road trip across Morocco that took us from the desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. It was a jaunt of about 1000 km made in 3 days. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and…