Monday 5th Oct
After rain, lightning etc yesterday on our journey here, woke up to beautiful blue clear sky today...very lucky.
Great cheese omelet for breakfast, have to comment as this is unusual!
Bovec is all about sking in winter and rafting, canyoning, paragliding, hiking and mountainbiking in summer..... you may wonder what we are doing here! But really it is an area of great natural beauty.
First port of call was the Boka Waterfall, regarded as THE most magnificent in Slovenia. It is visible from the road, but of course we had to go rockclimbing for an hour to get to the best vantage point... learnt later that if you really wanted to be adventurous you could climb the whole damn thing to view it from above.... completely unnecessary in my view!
Next Tolmin Gorges in the Triglav National park. This was a walking path through the gorge past thermal springs (wasn't tempted,),Medvedova glava (the Bears Head - a large rock stuck between the walls of a canyon, it is covered with moss and looks like a hairy bears head), Dantes Cave - too wet to go in unfortunately. The environment is really beautiful lush with ferns, vistas of the gorges and streams etc.
Lunch at the National Park bar was speciality of the area, fried polenta with a savoury quark (of all things) - different!
On the way home we stopped at the the Italian Charnel House on Gradic Hill in Kobarid. The remains of 7000 Italian known and unknown soldiers from WW1 were interred at the site. Franks Grandfather fought in battles in the area in WW1
so he was interested in this.
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| Frank on the way to Boka Falls |
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| Boka Falls |
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| Boka Falls - see the rainbow |
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| Little shepherd huts in the fields |
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| Vegetation in Tolmin Gorge |
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| Beautiful clear water in Tolmin Gorge |
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| Tolmin Gorge |
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| Me on bouncy bridge |
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| The Bears Head Tolmin Gorge |
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| Italian Charnet House Kobarid |
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| Bled cream cake --- awful! |
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