In a continent that suffers from tourism, Slovenia is hidden in Europe, a cozy but forgotten country that vigorously covers adventure vacations. I learned this recent holidays with roads, which took me through the mythical vineyards of Gorisrisk Brda and along the Alpe Adria path in the center of the Alps Juliennes.
Backroads, the world’s largest active adventure company, was among the first to reveal its secrets to hikers on a walking trip. I joined a fall departure of their Italy & Slovenia Walking & Hiking Tour, a six-day ramble along the translucent green waters of the Soča River and the Alpe Adria Trail, one of Europe’s legendary hiking routes.
After a truck at Venice airport, it began in the Italian aspect of the border, in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The introductory walk of this day crossed Friuli’s rich vineyards, with an afternoon that injured the forests of the Alpe Adria road, which extends to 466 miles through Austria, Italy and Sloveniaarray during Ouurray, we travel a few sections of the “garden of Eden. “Because he was nicknamed. Our 3 guides, Karmen, Lara and Virginia, two Slovenians and an Italian, embodied intelligent, capable and enthusiastic leaders who are road characteristics.
It was not a technically challenging walk: we averaged between six and nine miles, in a qualified 2 to four of five, but still, there were extensive characteristics every day. This first exit was scored through lunch at the Los Angeles Upcent Osteria and a walk in the Vinos de Collio district, with the Alps Julián de Slovenia in the distance. Ejera Noche sent us back to Gredič, a prominent place to eat gourmet in an old castle just on the border in Slovenia.
Slovenia (not being with Slovakia, which sometimes) limits with Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia and is the length of the Massachusetts. His green pastures, his acres from Bodegas, his mountains with snow tip, his lack of crowds and sufficient mercantilism in the form of hotels and restaurants reminded me of Switzerland that I visited 3 decades ago. The first country in the global to be declared a green destination in the global is the third maximum wooded country in Europe. The walk was on small quiet roads and mountain trails, with remote farms, wooden hay and grass farm animals placed in a backdrop.
The next day, we go deeper into the Vinícola region of Goriska BRDA, the land of Pinot Grigio, Merlot and Friulano. This border region was the scene of fierce struggles between the Italians and the Austrians the Great War, and we have passed the remnants of the world of the world. War weapons locations. The ongoing war in Kobarid was the intermediate piece of Ernest Hemingway farewell to weapons, and in the city of the middle is the remarkable and chilling Kobarid Museum, which documented the atrocities.
Slovenia has long been a piece of chess in the wars of the region. This was part of the Habsburg Empire for many years, followed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 2004. In these changes, it has preserved its language, one of the most complicated in Europe, and its cultural history in conversion can be noticed in the menus of the restaurants, which will offer Goulash and Pasta in an equivalent plane.
From Kobarid, we started along the emerald waters of the throat of the Soca River and the white limestone cliffs and we finished the day with a journey in exercise in the historical Bohinj railway. Built between 1900 and 1906 as a component of a strategic railroad built to attach the capital of Vienna and with the remote Adriatic region of the Austrohungal Empire, especially with the important port of Trieste. The maximum forgotten landscapes in the Alps.
Then, we went to Triglav National Park, home to Mt. Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia at 9,396 feet. The symbol of the Slovene nation, you can see it on the country’s flag and coat of arms. We checked into Hotel Bohinj for two nights, a stylish Alpine hotel on the shores of Lake Bohinj with a stellar restaurant, a wine cellar full of Slovenian treasures, and relaxation in the form of Turkish and Finnish saunas and an alfresco plunge pool.
Karmen, Virginie and Lara with a map of the adventure of the day.
The next day, we board an electric ferry for a silent adventure through Lake Bohinj to begin our walk of the day, which took us beyond a river with color water and roots of trees covered with iridescent green moss. This landscape seemed to belong to the lord of Tolkien’s rings. There a steep walk to Mostnica Gorge and then less difficult to walk to the Valle Valley of Voje, where a Lunch of beer Goulash and Laško in a Slovenian mountain cabin Vintage made him the best position to take to take long.
Laško Beer.
On the fourth day, we saw the centerpiece of Slovenia, Lake Bled, where the centerpiece is an island with the church of the century of the assumption in its summit, a vision of a fairy tale. Our point of view came here from tea, where Marshall Tito, Yugoslavia dictator, had built a summer house.
We left the city on a country lane and stopped a beekeeper in a country where beekeeping is a national sport. We then drove for miles along the Sava River, so transparently, a flotilla of giant brown trout can be seen gently in its clear waters. A long ascent to succeed in the well-preserved medieval town of Radovljica followed. It has frescoes on some buildings on the main square, a beekeeping museum, many cafes and the exceptional Radolška čokolada for homemade chocolates.
A balcony view from Vila Planinka.
Then, in Vila Planinka, a small luxury hotel in the global in the country’s alpine center in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. The hotel had an alpine wooded decoration, and the maximum of the rooms had balconies, which made the view of the peaks that had already snowed in mid -September. His place to eat has a Michelin dish and a list of stellar wines. The relaxations came here in the form of two saunas, very mandatory after the next day. It is our maximum and complicated walk, which is directed to dark forests with roots directly outside a story of Fairy Grimms, followed through a long descent to the Jezersko valley, then a farewell of dinner and a wine tasting.
We ended with a short drive to the capital city of Ljubljana, one of Europe’s most charming small capitals, where I spent a couple of days.
Seeing Slovenia for the first time with two feet, the most productive way of having a feeling of a country that, either familiar and strange, relentlessly comprehensive and strangely beautiful. Without obstacles, masses of small surprises and traditionally rich, it is a position that hopes to be discovered.
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