hiking the Dolomites (the most beautiful place in the world) 🏔️

Getting to the Dolomites was a journey in itself. We had a long drive from Venice and arrived late at night. I never got around to filming an intro for this video but I think that's because no words could truly capture how this place feels. Waking up here was so surreal. Every view is breathtaking and spending a few days here with friends felt like a dream and I couldn't be more grateful for this experience. I hope you guys enjoy this little video diary of our time in the Dolomites and I already can't wait to go back. We made it! She is large that rock but what a view. Insane. We've just got to go downhill guys now. Almost made it. The view is so nice and there's a refugio here so I think we might sit down for a little bit. Chips. When you come to Italy sometimes you can get them in France. These are the the chip of choice. This is my first Bolognese Wisteria. Darker in color. This is Alex and I's favorite chip here. They're kind of like twisties at home. I think they're better. Yeah they're like twisties. They're good but better right? Less artificial cheese flavor. It's the epitome of holiday hour. What did you just say? How often do you get to eat strudel on a mountain? We were prepared. I'm glad I'm actually putting this bad boy to use. Yeah they weren't wrong. The way I feel like I'm feel like I'm on like like the Bear Grylls filming crew right now. Do you reckon? Yeah I reckon. It feels so good to be clean and warm. I just had a shower and washed my hair. I'm gonna put on a face mask because I haven't in a while and this one always makes my skin feel so soft. It was so funny getting caught in the rain. Thank god I bought that rain poncho earlier today because I almost didn't. We have come to the Dolomites so unprepared. Omeya and Noah are pretty prepared but Alex and I literally have like no hiking clothes. We don't want to buy any either because we don't really have the baggage for it and obviously this four-day trip is our only like hike the whole time. So we're really trying to make do. Today was a shorter hike. We only ended up doing 9kms but it was pretty fine. Depending on if the weather clears up and it stops raining, we might go and drive somewhere to watch the sunset with our dinner. I'm gonna make us this sausage tomatoey pasta. I love cooking you guys and being on holiday and being with friends and having like fun different produce to play with makes me so excited. Also the yellow and yellow was unintentional I promise. Apparently there's a spot close to us with a really beautiful view that doesn't require any hiking so I'm bringing myself a warm cup of tea. I need to run. Al's staying home because unfortunately he's not feeling too good so he's just gonna have an early night and whoop all right. I was forgotten the whole day. We're talking game plans for tomorrow's hike. We've changed our mind about how many times Noah have we changed our mind about the hike. I would say about six. I am so sleepy this morning. We need to get ready really quick though because we want to leave in like the next 30 minutes. Alex and I slept in a little bit and we told Maya and Noah we'd leave at eight so I'm gonna speed get ready. Our Airbnb host was so nice and lent us this backpack that Al's been wearing. It actually fits so much and it's waterproof. It saved us yesterday in the rain so very grateful for that. We're just packing things. We've got some snacks and things in there, water. Tell us about the hike this morning. So today we're going on a hike and I know nothing about it but I hear it's long. We're doing the Apple map. One of the Apple desktop screensaver images and our Airbnb host told us that it has become super popular for people to come to this exact spot just to see it. It's not my way here but we're going nevertheless. I feel like I'm just constantly in awe at how beautiful the scenery is. It is unreal. It feels like I'm living in the sound of music set. It's such a nice temperature out as well. It's a little bit chilly but we're in the sun so it's perfect. I must say though I'm like very out of breath. I think it might be the altitude but also I'm pretty unfit at the given just like walking and talking right now. I'm like oh you guys that is insane. Like what? This is my peekaboo. That one's fully asleep. It's so busy up here. I mean I see why the view is insane but now we just have to walk down. Insane. We made it to the top of the mountain and this refugio is literally heaven. It is so gorgeous. We've ordered some drinks and then I think we're gonna begin hiking down. We started playing this new card game called Five Crowns and we're literally obsessed. We just launched it last night so I really want to play around. I was dreaming about it last night like my first message to Maya and Noah this morning was I just want to play Five Crowns so we're really gonna play that. Should I taste the orange juice? It's not freshly squeezed. It definitely is like a pulp orange juice. Yeah it's good. You're a fiend. Oh you have the fonzes. We're back home. I'm trying to figure out if I'm sunburnt or not. I feel like I did get a little bit crispy today but I've just had a nice warm shower. It's a little bit more chilly this afternoon which is nice because we can be snuggly but now that I'm all clean and warm I want to do some prep for a dessert that I want to make tonight. When we did a grocery shop the other day I found these really fun shaped pears and it made me think of a dessert that my really good friend Zeddy has made before in the past so I was like oh I might do something a little bit similar. I'm going to either poach them or I have to figure out how I'm going to cook them but I'll show you once I'm done and then I think we're just going to have a cozy evening in. We're honestly probably going to play more Five Crowns because we're obsessed at the moment. I need to close this window because mozzies are flying in so I might just quickly do that now. I am so exhausted. I literally could honestly go to bed right now and it's like 5pm. Let's go see what the others are doing. Look at these figs that we got today. I didn't show you guys the pears that I poached. Oh my god yeah! Do they look good? They look good. Wait I know why you want to start a new game. No we're not starting a new game. Steak by yours truly, mozzarella and rocket salad. I haven't used this seasoning before so. I'm making my pear dessert. I'm just heating them up again and then I'm going to grab some ice cream. Shall I bring you guys along? Oh watch out sorry. Vanilla bean ice cream. I'm kind of improvising. Oh I wonder if I could chop up pistachios. Morning guys. It is the next day and we were up so rad and early because we had a two-hour drive to Lake Vibrase. I'm probably pronouncing that wrong but it's the famous one with the little boats in the water. So we wanted to try and get here early before it gets busy but it's already looking pretty busy. We brought some brekkie that we're gonna have when we get there and it's so nice and sunny. I'm so happy to be here. When I was doing some research before coming here, a lot of people said to come for sunrise but when we arrived we weren't obviously here for sunrise but we were early and the whole lake was like clouded over or not clouded over but the sun hadn't reached it yet so I definitely don't think sunrise is the best time to come. Can you hear the cows? I can't take myself seriously wearing this headband but we've decided to do the hike here. It's like 6kms and we're almost done. They remade our beds and cleaned the apartment and I'm so tired you guys. I don't know what it is. I stayed up late last night working and then I think it's just that and the combination of the early morning so I think we're gonna chill out here for a little bit. It's like 3pm, we were out pretty much all day. We're gonna make some lunch and then I think we're just gonna have a quiet afternoon. I really want to try and find a spot for dinner to like watch the sunset, maybe bring our dinner there. I think that would be so nice but the weather actually is looking a little bit gloomy. It's been raining most afternoons so I guess that'll just depend if the rain holds off or not but I honestly might have a little nap. I don't know why I'm so sleepy. Yummy Noah, it looks so good. I prefer this more than Monopoly deal but I'm a bit sick of Monopoly deal because we just play it so much. It's just it's a kind of a different type of game. Yeah, agreed. The lighting in here is not good this time mate.