The valley- floor drops at Maloja, down the Maloja Pass, into the Bergell (Val Bregaglia), the views are fabulous!!
The old Maloja Kulm Hotel, one of the classic Ski-Hotels of the past and present for the international jetset….beautifully maintained.
Yup, built in 1646….
The roof is part natural rock-slate and part copper.
Some of the famous Maloja tornanti
A dunny with a view !!
Not even 20k’s down-valley…
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there’s the turn-off to Soglio, one of those sleepy places which have only recently been discovered by tourism….
Soglio is a gem!!
The road is peppered with mashed chestnuts from the overhanging branches… the large chestnut groves full of trees hundreds of years old.
A POSTIE!!
Hmmm…wonder, if that thing would make it up Cape York?