09 Jan 2023
Plan on a very full day. Pick up was a half hour late but we had missed some communication since we were not carrying a mobile phone. Had our front desk place a call after we had waited a half hour. Phone number is required as part of booking, doesn’t make sense if you aren’t carrying one. 3 stops before lunch at a monastery, gondola ride, and mountain slide. Lines were very long for the slide we waited 40 minutes to go up, didn’t spend much time at the waterfall at the bottom since the line up started again to return up (another 30 minutes in line). Lunch took quite a while but we did enjoy the visit we had with a family in our group. Small group size only 7 of us which was nice. The afternoon included a stop at the top of the highest peak. We could have gone further up by hired car but at this point we were getting tired and still had two stops to go so we passed, glad the family did as well so we could move on. The drive out there and back took up another 40 minutes but was a least an opportunity to see another area of the city. Still to come a visit to a strawberry farm, very interesting, as well as a stop at the crazy house. All in all a very full day. We paid for our lunch, the gondola and the slide which were all reasonably priced. The guide covered the entry to the monastery (our favourite) as well as the mountain site and the crazy house. English speaking guide was very good. Left the hotel at 9:00 got back at 4:30 (could have done without the mountain stop in the afternoon).