On Monday we took it kind of easy: slept in, did laundry. In the afternoon we walked up the market street in Bolzano to get some stuff for making lunches.
The next day we woke up early and caught the 350 bus to Ortisei -St. Ulrich. It is a quaint ski town.
From the bus stop it is a bit of a walk to the Seceda cable car. You can tell everything is built to accommodate the large numbers of skiers in winter: there were wide escalators and moving walk-ways all the way. We took the two cable cars all the way to the top. The second one was really steep.
There were people on the cable car with paragliders, and we saw them floating down from the top soon after we arrived.
The views of the Dolomites in all directions were incredible.
Just below was farmland and some of those small long-horned cows.
There are some short hiking trails that take you right to the edge the peak called Fermeda, if you don't mind a little vertigo.
I've always wanted to see the Dolomites, so this day was a real highlight for me.
We had a beer at the cablecar station, then made our way back down and caught the bus back to Bolzano.
We got back just in time to check out the South Tyrol Archeological Museum which has the remains and the artifacts of a 5300 year old mummified man that was found in melting ice in the 1990's. Very good displays describing eveything that was found and what it meant for our understanding of human history.
Afterward we got cleaned up and went out for our last dinner in Bolzano.
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