Slow travelling or traffic jam?

Ticino, Switzerland. Photo storytelling, 11 October 2019.

Especially during the summer months the frenzy of thousands of cars on the highway heading north comes to an abrupt end as they get stuck in the omnipresent traffic jam south of the 16.8 km long Gotthard Road Tunnel (map, Wikipedia), which connects the swiss-italian part with the swiss-german part of Switzerland.

This time we wanted to make it better and decided for slow travelling to the North having a break here and there and everywhere, avoiding the motorway and taking our time.

Denti della Vecchia

Did you know the Denti della Vecchia, the massive geological mountain formation near Lugano – a true hiking and bouldering paradise? In all those years I must have made thousands of images of the beautiful Denti della Vecchia – but today the scenery was absolutely spectacular with the sunrays and shadows in the sky.

Denti della Vecchia
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