From Garmisch to Merano in Boutique Hotels (Self-Guided Walking)

ARRIVAL IN GARMISCH

The famous olympic town Garmisch-Partenkirchen beckons you to explore: discover the beautiful pedestrian zone, the traditionally painted houses and cozy beer gardens.

GARMISCH – MITTENWALD approx. 5 hours 20 km 750 m / 550 m

Walk past the renowned ski-jumping hill and through the imposing Partnachklamm-ravine, where a roaring mass of water has dug deep into the rock. Via Mount Wamberg you walk to the Elmauer Alp and continue through blooming meadows and valleys to Lake Lauter- and Lake Ferchensee. You stay overnight in Mittenwald, renowned for violin making and ‚Lüftlmalerei‘ (a kind of trompe l’oeil on houses).

MITTENWALD – LEUTASCH approx. 4 hours 14 km 200 m/ 0 m

Today you leave Bavaria and head for the Tyrolean mountain world! The Geisterklamm-ravine situated high above a gorge awaits for you to walk through it on bridges and footbridges. After that you hike through a splendid high mountain valley, which is also the location of the popular holiday destination Leutasch, surrounded by mountain chains.

LEUTASCH – LANDECK approx. 4.5 hours 15 km 200 m/ 700 m

Remote hill moor areas and forests lead you to the crossover onto the ‚Buchner Höhe‘. Past walls of rock of the ‚Hohen Munde‘ along a beautiful hiking trail downhill into the green Inn-river valley. From the historic market town Telfs you take the train, which takes you to your Day Finish Landeck with views onto the famous mountains with glaciers of the Ötztaler and Pitztaler Alps

LANDECK – RESIA approx. 5 hours 14 km 550 m / 850 m

Transfer onto the Resia-pass and by cable car to Mutzkopf, where you start your hike to Lake Schwarzsee and Lake Grünsee. You ascend as far as the three-nation border stone, where you get to stand exactly on the border between Italy, Austria and Switzerland. You descend via alps to the giant Lake Resia, with your same-named Day Finish Lake Resia. Welcome to Italy!

RESIA – NATURNO/SURROUNDING approx. 4.5 hours 17 km 100 m/ 600 m

Short bus journey along Lake Resia with a view onto the sunken church of Graun to the trailhead. The hiking tour in the nature reserve on Lake San Valentino leads you downhill into the Alpine dairy village of Burgeis and then via diverse paths across meadows and ‚Waalweg‘-paths (ancient water channels) to Schluderns and by train through vineyards and orchards to Naturno.

NATURNO/SURROUNDING – MERANO approx. 5 hours 19 km 400 m/ 600 m

You walk along a panorama-trail with great views all the way to the streams of the ‚Sagenweg‘-path. Along the many Waalweg-paths traditional wine taverns invite you again and again to have a break. In the afternoon you reach the ‚Tappeiner Promenade‘, whose exotic floral splendor you follow as far as the cathedral square of Merano. Now you have reached the end destination of your impressive hiking week and get to toast to your experiences in the pretty centre of Merano.

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