Dolomites Italy. Best food & easy hikes to alpine huts & majestic views in the Seiser Alm & Seceda.

Dolomites Italy and its cute alpine huts. Eat the best of Italy’s South Tyrolean food after an easy summer hike to majestic views on the Dolomites Alpe di Siusi, Seiser Alm and Seceda. You’ll go on a hike to Italy and Europe’s largest alpine meadow below soaring peaks of UNESCO heritage protected mountains. Experience charming wooden huts, the warmth of local people, and high altitude trails with expansive views of the Dolomites most famous mountain groups. You’ll meet cows, edelweiss flowers, and the surprise of live traditional music in the middle of nowhere.

The Dolomites are a vast section of the European alps, famous for their pale and dramatic limestone mountains and designated as a UNESCO heritage site. Malga, Hütte, Schwaige, Baita, are all places to eat. Rifugios also offer a place to sleep. Our base is a house in Selva, the highest village in the steep valley called Val Gardena, about 45 minutes from Bolzano.

On our way to Seceda, Malga Troier brings us a basket of a South Tyrolean bread called Shüttlebrot. Shüttlebrot is a local cracker-bread. After we visit the Seceda peak, at Sofie Hutte Emre orders Grustl a popular hikers staple of eggs, smoked bacon, and fried potatoes.And I order Schlutzkrapfen. While we wait, the kitchen brings a surprise. An octopus salad.

Next we head for Alpe di Suisi or Seiser Alm, which is Europe’s largest and most magnificent alpine meadow. From the car park at Compatch, we’re heading up the meadow toward Punta di Oro. We follow the signs to the Gostner Hut, where we’ll have our first course with he Sasso Group mountains on one side and the Sciliar or Schlern on the other. Our second stop is only a short distance away, where Baita Tuene hut delivers on a panoramic view and traditional knödle with cole slaw. The final hut of our quest is the Rauch Hutte. We eat polenta with mushrooms and Kaiserschmarrn. Our Mountain Huts: Malga Troier, Sofie Hutte, Gostner Schwaige, Baita Tuene, Rauch Hutte.

Geography — Names of Mountains and Valleys in this video:
Val Gardena or Gröden or Gherdëina.
Val Gardena contains Ortisei or Saint Ulrich, Santa Cristina or Saint Christina, and Selva or Wolkenstein. The valley rises from 1238 at Ortisei to 1428 at S. Cristina to 1563 at Selva.
Gruppo del Sella or Sella Gruppe or Meisules. 3152. Huge mound across valley from the house that lit up red and was focus of the time lapse shot.
Langkofel or Sasso Lungo 3181. Rises from the Alpe di Siusi or Seiser Alm
Plattkofel or Sasso Piatto 2955. Rises right next to it like two lumps from the Alpe di Siusi or Seiser Alm.
Schlern or Sciliar 2450. Pointed peak that rises from the side of the Alpe di Siusi or Seiser Alm.
Compatsch village with the parking lot for Alpe di Siusi.
Parco Naturale Puez-Odle or Naturepark Puez-Geisler.
Gruppo le Odle or Geisler Gruppe. Highest peak is 3025 the Sas Rigais. Rises above the Alpe di Cisles or Cisles Alm.
Seceda Peak 2518
Top of Col Riser 2106
Val di Funes or Villnösstal abutts Seceda from the back, where the Santa Magdalena church lies.

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