The Alpe di Siusi may well be the most beautiful place on earth. This is what we had always imagined summer in the Alps to be: Snow-capped mountains, wildflowers, lush green meadows, streams and forests, with the sounds of cowbells and cuckoo birds carried on the breeze.

Photo by: Douglas Croft,
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 200, f8, 1/125
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