We paid €74 to see a cloud | Seceda, Dolomites, Italy

We planned to catch sunrise at Tre Cime. We didn't know need to book months ahead. And by the time we got there, the only option was a two-hour wait in full sun for a shuttle bus. So we turned around. This is what we found instead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT THIS TRIP COST US Seceda cable car — €74 per person, round trip Cinque Torri — free Rental car — picked up at Venice airport, returned at Verona airport ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE'D TELL YOU BEFORE YOU GO → Tre Cime requires advance booking in high season. Not "wake up early" early months ahead. Parking near the trailhead sells out too. → Cinque Torri is free, quiet, and the hiking is genuinely beautiful. → Seceda cable car is expensive, but if the weather turns, wait it out. We arrived to zero visibility. It cleared. → If you pick up a rental car at Venice airport, sign your contract online BEFORE you arrive. We didn't. More on that next episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:05 Dolomites: what almost went wrong 0:19 Why we skipped Tre Cime 1:06 Cinque Torri hike 2:06 A commercial shoot at the summit 2:44 Back in town 3:08 Seceda cable car: is €74 worth it? 3:40 Seceda in thick fog 4:06 Seceda ridgeline revealed 5:54 Seceda cable car descent 6:33 Leaving the Dolomites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Next: getting OUT of Venice nearly cost us our flight. Subscribe if this is your kind of travel. Know before you go. #Dolomites #Seceda #TreCime #ItalyTravel #DolomitesHiking