Hiking to Zgornja Radovna
Today is SUNNY! Hooray! Ready to go but first have to find our way OUT of Kranjska Gora. Even with explicit directions, we almost always get lost coming out of a town and today was no exception. You would think sign posts like this would make it a no-brainer....not. And then, the two of us start shouting at each other - "it's your fault we're lost"..."I told you we should have turned here" - and on and on.
Even though the directions included a little book from Helia with photos showing details of where to turn, we ended up walking extra before turning back and trying another direction. If I ever learn how to enter "waymarks" in my little Garmin GPS, this won't be an issue.
But we finally got on the right path out of town, and chose the harder option for today's hike. Through forests, across meadows View image, with more views of the snow capped mountains, past the Gozd Martuljek waterfall.
The village of Gozd Martuljek is named after one of the mountain ranges in the Julian Alp.
There were some exceptional bike paths through the villages but we got lost again trying to find the way through Mojstrana into the Radovna valley.
Stopped several times to ask everyone we saw for directions. Again, each person spoke perfect English and sent us on our foot-sore way. Finally, working our way out of Mojstrana, it was another 5km to the Pension Inn Psnak in Zgornja Radovna, our stay for the night. The first 4km was uphill...just what we needed after walking 10 miles. Still in the Triglev National Forest, and other than an occasional car on the road, there was perfect silence. We slogged along, moving from one side of the road to another, trying to cut the curves, until finally rounding a bend, we heard loud talking and singing. There was our Pension Inn Psnak, with at least 50 Slovenes sitting outside at picnic tables drinking coffee, wine and schnapps! View image They looked at us...two, salt encrusted, sweaty Americans like we had dropped from another planet. And we looked at all these people singing and drinking like they had dropped from another planet.
More about the Pension....
