After a delicious lunch of pasta and salad our afternoon hike took us into the extremely panoramic Fanes gorges, waterfalls and streams north of Cortina.
Number 45:
The Fanes gorges, cataracts, waterfalls and streams, Cortina D'Amprezzo
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| Fanes Gorge. |
The walk to the Fanes waterfalls, passing the confluence of the Fanes, Travenenzes and Ra Vales valleys, is a hugely impressive landscape reflecting the power of water. Deep canyons and gorges, potholes, rapids and waterfalls all along the Rio Fanes are really beautiful and the water a sea-foam green colour, as John called it.
The Fanes Cascate Basse are some of the highest and largest waterfalls in the Dolomites and accessed via a narrow, vertiginous cliff side path with a sheer drop into the gorge below, where the four of us hung onto the steel rope for dear life! Such an adrenalin rush, shew.
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| Fred getting ready to walk behind the raging waterfall to take photos. |
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| Navigating the steel rope along the narrow, slippery path, getting sprayed by the falls. |
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| The Johnz approaching the falls. |
