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I’m just realized that I still owe you with the final part of our trip to Italy. So lets see… first a few words about the place: Lago di Garda (or Lake Garda). It is a narrow lake in the alpine region, north Italy. The upper half of the lake is surrounded by mountains and was formed by glaciers. The mountains are about 1500-2000m tall so the whole place looks really breathtaking.
Before we went to Italy we had the idea to visit the lake but it was not a fixed point in our trip. We did a little research about the towns and hotels but nothing serious and on the last day in Jesolo we decided to stick to the plan and visit the place. The idea was to find a hotel on the eastern side for a good price. It was a bit risky because of summer and a lot of occupied hotels. First we tried the tourist info and they recommended a place in Garda but it was simply impossible to access it with a car. One way and closed roads around the beach…  Next we headed to the north and we were lucky and found a really nice place in Torri del Benaco, Hotel Garden. They had two available rooms for a really good price, nice garden with enough place for the cars. After a small relaxing we continued our way to the north to Malcesine. This is a beautiful town about 20km to the north under a 2000m tall mountain. The town is really amazing, small and narrow pedestrian streets and a fantastic panorama to the lake and the mountains. After we discovered this place we went back to our hotel with a stop at a nice food store to buy some fresh bread, mortadella and cheese for dinner. Before the sunset we had time for a little swim in the lake, it was a little cold but crystal clear.
I had a terrible night this day, we got the room with a lake view and the road between the lake and the hotel was really noisy. The traffic was light but they exceeded the speed limit big time and I think I woke up in every 10-15 minutes. Next day we left the hotel early and had only a few small stops until we arrived at home late night.