Velika Planina

Last Sunday we went hiking to Velika Planina. At first on Saturday I went to Ljubljana to meet some other EVS-volunteers and to say goodbye to Daniela, who is leaving back home on Monday.

I stayed the night at my friends place and on the morning at 9 with Balazs and Ivano we started the trip to Kamnik from Ljubljana bus station. After around 50 minutes we changed the bus to Stahovica. Then the hiking part began! On the start the sign to Velika Planina said 3 hours 20 minutes, but somehow we have always a tradition to over these limits...

So, after 4 hours and 30 minutes we arrived to Mala Planina and had a break for lunch in a restaurant. The last part of the walk was rainy so it was good to warm a bit. After the rest the final part of hiking started. We were planning to go down by a cabel car, and local people gave an advice that it will take around one hour to walk there. The time we had was 45 minutes, so lets run! Last sign which we saw showed for 20 minutes, but we did it in 10 minutes and barely caught the cabel car at 5pm. Huh :-)

The bus trip back to Ljubljana was a bit interesting as well. Because for some unknown reason our bus didn't stop on the bus stop we had to figure out some other way... Next bus would arrive after two hours, so an extempore idea was to hitchhike to Kamnik bus station and then take a bus to Ljubljana. Been there done that :-D

It's really nice that there are so many wonderful opportunities for hiking in Slovenia. Beautiful nature, fresh water flowing down the streams and a view of high mountains :-)