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Mountainbike tour from Reschen to Meran
flyfreak Says: Enjoy a ride with your mountainbike from Graun (right after the Austrian boarder coming from Tyrol over the Reschenpass). You can drive until Meran and further, but the distance from Graun to Meran is approx. 80 kilometres, so enough for a daytrip (with my condition ;-))....
Water channel pathways - "Waalwege"
flyfreak Says: There are many water channel pathways (in German calles "Waalwege" or "Walwege") in and around the area of Meran. I put some photos of the Marlengo water channel pathway:Total distance: 13 km / total walking time: approx. 3 – 3 ½ hrsLike the others, the Marlengo water...
desert_princess Says: Meran is a joy to be - take the promenade along the river .To be continued...
desert_princess Says: in construction
And finally the nice parks and promenades of Meran
Anjutka Says: Meran became a prominent climatic health resort in the 19th century. This is the reason for the special flair of the town. The area around the Passer is dominated of great Art Nouveau villas and hotels and various installations of a luxurious fin de siecle Habsburg empire...
Anjutka Says: This river runs through the Passeier valley and enters the area of Meran in an attractive small canyon before passing through the city and meeting the Etsch river south of the city.
Symbiosis of people and cows since 6000 years
Anjutka Says: The most important living creator of the Alpine cultural landscape is the cow, inhibiting other plants than the nice green grass to grow at the pastures and permanently fertilizing them and providing without any doubt by far the best milk of all Italy.
Anjutka Says: Here it is interesting to see under which difficult conditions - steep slopes, remote area, hard, almost sub-Arctic climate - farming is done. Nowadays it can only survive with subsidies of the European Union in order to maintain this millennia old cultural landscape.
Anjutka Says: At the northern side the road is mostly in rather narrow valleys but the first km at the southern side go through a steep but very wide slope with good far views.
Anjutka Says: This is the most impressive one among the mountains close to the pass.
Anjutka Says: This picture ws taken right from the highest point of the road towards west, the frontier runs somewhere through this pic.
The approach from North through the Oetztal
Anjutka Says: The valley is from its end where the Oetztaler Ache meets the Inn until to the Timmelsjoch about 65 km long and most pleasant close to the beginning and from Zwieselstein onwards to the top. It is an excellent road all the way, The pic shows the Schalfkogel about 3500 m) and...
desert_princess Says: For your hotel in Meran ,see the - Meran online hotel guide I personnaly never needed accomodation there as I was living about an hour by car.
Restaurants - warning!!!big midday break
desert_princess Says: the restaurants close at 12h and start serving food first from 17 or 18h - keep this in mind too.
More than enough places along the way
Anjutka Says: In a tourist area like this nobody should have problems to find suitable places to eat and drink, even at the highest point of the road, a few steps from the frontier at the Austrain side. But at such a great day as we had we preferred to picknick right in the great scenery.
No public transport across the Timmelsjoch
Anjutka Says: The road over the Timmelsjoch is only open from June to October, for the rest of the year only the uppermost villages on both sides can be reached by car. This is also the end for the scheduled buses on both sides, the road over the pass is at the Italian side simply too...
Working hours of shops and restaurants
desert_princess Says: I came to meran as I wanted to do some shopping. Arriving from the bus station I entered the town center by a narrow street overlooked by a gate. In the first shop on the left that was some "crafts and do it yourself " thing , but they were closing in 10 minutes as it was...
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This picture ws taken right from the highest point of the road towards west, the frontier runs somewhere through this pic.
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