EXPERIENCE A GENUINE PART OF ITALY, A REAL MOUNTAIN TREKKING WITH ACCOMMODATION AT RIFUGIO
The fantastic Italian Orobie Alps! This short trekking tour has 3 days of challenging hiking with 2 nights at Italian mountain stations called Rifugio.
The Orobie Alps are known for their beautiful views and great contrasts with barrenness, green fields and steep mountain walls and it is a wonderful challenge you have in front of you. The Alps around Bergamo are a bit unexplored area with fewer tourists and less organized. We hike with a local mountain guide and Swedish tour guide who lives in the valley. You carry your luggage yourself and have well-fitted hiking boots, a good backpack and poles for those who wish.
Day 1, - ARRIVAL BERGAMO AND THE VALLEY BREMBANA
Transfer from recommended airports is included in the trip. We gather at the hotel at about 6 pm for a short walk in the village and later enjoying an evening dinner where we prepare and talk about our coming days in the mountains.
Food incl: evening dinner, 2 dishes and drinks
Day 2, - HIKING UP IN THE BEAUTIFUL OROBIE ALPS
We start from the hotel and the backpack is packed for 2 nights and 3 hiking days and we carry it ourselves. The rest of our luggage can stay at the hotel until we return. Our guide meets us and we start our trekking towards the Rifugio. We bring a picnic for lunch during our hike. Today's trekking tour is about 6-7 hours including break and we walk about 1200 hight meters to reach our Rifugio at 2000 meters. Here we are welcomed by happy people and good food, sleep in dormitories, showers and toilets in the corridor. It includes disposable sheets and towel.
Food incl: Breakfast, picnic, evening dinner with drinks
Day 3, - FULL DAY TREKKING IN THE OROBIE ALPS
After a good night's sleep and breakfast, we leave with our backpack and picnic for the day. Today's tour takes about 6 hours including break and we have about 500 hight meters. In the afternoon we are welcomed by the host of the next Rifugio, an aperitivo with drinks and the evening's good dinner. We sleep in dormitories, showers and toilets in the corridor. It includes disposable sheets and towel.
Food incl: Breakfast, picnic, aperitivo, evening dinner with drinks
Day 4, - BACK DOWN TO THE VALLEY AND THE HOTEL
After breakfast we check out and start our trekking day to go down to our hotel in the valley again. Today's tour takes about 6 hours and has about 1000 negative altitude meters. This day it is nice to have stabilizing knee pads if the knees will be a little tired after several days of hiking. We arrive in the afternoon and have time to relax and unwind for a while before the evening's dinner.
Food incl: Breakfast, picnic, aperitivo, evening dinner with drinks
Day 5, - DEPARTURE FROM VAL BREMBANA
Departure, transfer from the hotel to the airport. If you want extra nights in Valle Brembana, Bergamo or our surroundings, we are happy to help you.
Food incl: Breakfast
DATE : JUNE 28 & AUGUST 27, 2022
TREKKING 3 DAYS
LENGTH: 5 DAYS
GROUP: SMALL, MAX 12
LEVEL: MEDIUM, 3 : 5
LOCAL MOUNTAIN GUIDE
TOURLEADER
CARRY YOUR OWN LUGGAGE
ALL INCLUSIVE
HOTEL & HOSTEL/RIFUGIO
BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNERS
TRANSFER TO AIRPORTS
PRICE: 1195.00 €
THE PRICE INCLUDES:
Transfer from and to Milan / Bergamo airports, Bergamo train station.
Part of a double or triple room at hotel ***, 2 nights incl. Breakfast.
Part of a dormitory room at Rifugio, 2 nights including breakfast and dinner.
2x evening dinners with aperitivo, wine / beer, water & coffee
Picnic lunch hiking days
Local alpine guide & tour guide
MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
We seldom cancel trips because we want to go trekking in the mountains ourselves. If, in the unlikely event that we cancel a trip, the traveler will be offered to complete the trip at a surcharge, choose another trip or cancel the trip and get all the money back, including the registration fee. If the trip is canceled, this will be announced no later than 30 days before departure.
PROGRAM CHANGES
The program may change due to external circumstances such as the weather's suitability for the activity
ACCOMMODATION
We stay in B&B's or hotels ***. In the mountains we stay at the local Rifugio, Italian hostel with restaurant. A simpler accommodation, it includes sheets & towels. We stay ladies and gentlemen in dormitories. The Rifugio and B&B are charming and are often run by families who live and work in the area. For the evening's dinner, dishes are prepared with local products from the area.
INSURANCE
Private accident insurance is mandatory, which includes mountain hiking activity. If you are a european citizen please bring your EU healthcare card.
FLIGHT
The trip doesn't include flights or other means of transport to the start of the trip. We recommend Bergamo / Orio al Serio Airport and Milan / Linate or Milan / Malpensa. Ryanair flies to Bergamo from most major European cities, Easy Jet from Stockholm and Copenhagen to Milan. Lufthansa also has flights to Bergamo.
COVID-19
We strictly adhere to laws and recommendations that prevail within the country and we recommend that you read and keep updated before departure from your home country on current rules in Italy.
We recommend that you always book a flight with possibility to rebook or including cancellation protection.
Your experience with SarasItaly is, due to covid -19, fully cancellable up to 20 days before arrival.
If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' travel recommendations are changed to include Italy as a country to which the dissuasion applies, the trip may be canceled with a full refund.
If the traveler or close relatives are exposed by Covid-19, the trip may be canceled free of charge if a DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE confirms the permit.
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