NEL BLU DIPINTO DI BLU | Slovenia giorno 3 | Gole di Tolmin e Lago di Bohinj
Background music Day 3 of 11…in the blue painted blue. (I’ll show you the house we slept in). The owners live here, who are in their sixties, maybe a little older, and have two apartments, one belonging to the Dutch and one upstairs, ours. Ours sleeps eight people; I don’t know about the one downstairs. Anyway, they speak good Italian, so there’s no problem. Our apartment is the largest, sleeping eight, and it’s this one, Apartma Stanovanje. Here’s the owners’ house, while here you enter the apartment. There’s a storage room right there, where they also give you some maps. Here we have a closed room, and here a bedroom. There’s a double bed and then a single bed, so that’s three people, and the view is always the same, which is to say, very pretty. There’s also a closet. Here are the two bathrooms, but I can’t go in because they’re occupied; I’ll show you later. Here ‘s the kitchen with the fridge, which is big. There’s also a fridge in the bedroom, but it’s small. Here are several cupboards, the gas stove, which isn’t very good, the oven, which is fine, everything quite ancient, a fairly old dishwasher, the table, which is enormous; they provide everything, cutlery and a television, which doesn’t work, though. Here’s the sofa. Here’s the other room, with three beds that aren’t double, but can still be pushed together. The shutters are very clever. And then the last room, where I sleep, which has two beds and then the balcony, which I showed you quickly this morning (in the last video). Here it is, there’s a huge table, also for eight people, where you can eat, clothes pegs, these beautiful flowers, and the drying rack. These are the bathrooms; there’s no bidet, I’ll tell you that right away. The shower is fine, except they could have put a door because that way it’s a bit inconvenient. And this is the same, just backwards. Maybe taking a shower here is better, because at least I don’t get the whole bathroom wet. Like, my mom took one here now. There’s a chair here. Anyway, the price for the room is €137 a night plus a €2.50 tourist tax. Good morning everyone, we’re all leaving; I saw the Dutch people down there are also loading up their cars. It’s 8:45, so let’s get our stuff in the car now, then if I can, I ‘ll take a stroll around this village. This morning’s plan is to go see that church down there in the sunshine , go to the Tolmin Gorges and Lake Bohinj, and then sleep somewhere else, but I’ll save that for last. So, I’m going to take a stroll around the village. What’s there? A beautiful farmhouse, look at this. There’s a very old woodcutter. There’s a rotten smell here, I think it’s the hay. Nice, I mean, there’s nothing there, but it’s nice. I’m going back to the car, because we have quite a bit of travel to do today, because we have half an hour to get to the Tolmin Gorges, then it’s almost an hour and a half to get to Lake Bohinj, and then we have to get to Kranjska Gora, which is still almost an hour from the lake, so we have a nice, full day. Let’s stop here again to see this church during the day, see what it’s like. Here are the victims of the First World War—I don’t know what it says, but the dates of death are all there, so they’ll be the victims of Dreznica, Magozd, Jezerca, Ravne, and Kosec, all nearby villages. Dreznica is this village here, Magozd is nearby, Jezerca is a little higher up, Ravne and Kosec are all nearby. This church looks a lot like the Harry Potter castle, and now I’m going to quickly go in. Well, unfortunately, guys, the sun isn’t shining because it rises over there, and it will be well lit here at noon, but at that time we’ll be in Tolmin and we can’t go back, but it’s still brighter than last night, and the organ is better seen. Anyway, these windows are amazing; I don’t know if they’re painted or if they’re made that way. If you touch them a little, they look painted, but I don’t think so, because they’re so old, from when they built the church. They must be incredibly valuable. They built it in 1747. Anyway, this is the village of Dreznica, and that’s Mount Krn, which is the highest mountain in these areas, while the highest mountain in Slovenia is actually Mount Triglav. And now we’re going to their National Park, to see the Tolmin Gorges. Up there is the Tolmin Castle. We’re approaching the Gorges, about six kilometers to go. This is the town of Tolmin, or Tolmino, which is a little bigger than Caporetto, in my opinion. There’s a huge celebration going on here because they’ve closed some roads and there are people patrolling; I don’t know what the hell they’re doing here. So, we’re more or less there, because we followed the car’s GPS, only it’s not up to date and it sent us to a slightly strange place, but from here there are directions to get to the Tolmin Gorges on foot. The car basically made us turn up from there, but the road for cars is closed. Actually, the parking lot is about eight kilometers on the other side, but we’re here, we said, “Oh well, let’s leave the car here, Tolminska Korita is signposted from here, it’ll be about twenty minutes, let’s walk.” By the way, there are about three parking lots, two free, which are far away and the one closest to the Gorges, which is paid. But here, I don’t know how to get there, it’s free. Here is Loce, which is a military cemetery and there are some gravestones. Here is this knight, Fideliter et Constanter, and over there is that memorial dedicated to the dead of the First World War. Anyway, the Gorges are open every day from 8:00 to 19:00. You can buy tickets either at the box office like we will or online. You have to reserve a time slot (for example, from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 12:00 to 1:00) and you can enter the Gorges at any time during that time slot. The ticket costs €10 for adults, €5 for children up to 15 and for disabled people. Children under six are free, and over fifteen and up to 25 pay €8. Here, from here where everyone arrives, you go to the free parking, then you come down and continue, to get to the Tolmin Gorges up here. So, here’s the paid parking and over there is the ticket booth and it’s really crowded , so it’s better to do it online. So guys, we can’t get in at 11:00, which is now, because there are already two hundred people inside and a maximum of two hundred people can enter at an hour, so we’ll get in at noon. Get your tickets online the day before or maybe even, if you come in August, two days before, so you can pick the time you want and get in, because if you come here to the booth, who knows how long they’ll make you wait. Today there’s space at noon, which is a good thing, because otherwise it would have been a problem. They charged me €5 even though I should have paid €8, so that’s fine. They also spoke Italian. There are some restaurants here too. €8.20 for a Magnum and two coffees, a bit of a touristy price, but not really that touristy after all . Anyway, the paid parking lot here has 30 spots, so folks, either come really early or, even better, walk a quarter of an hour and park for free, because here it’s €3 an hour. This is the line to get in; it’s almost noon. This is the Tolmin Gorge route, about 2 km or so, and about an hour and a half. You start from here, where the info point is, and then you go to see the thermal spring, which is in the middle of the Tolminka River, then you go to check out the view from the Devil’s Bridge; here there are some special trout and the confluence of the Zadlascica and Tolminka rivers. At number six there’s flora and fauna, at number seven there’s a special mushroom, and at number eight there’s a cave that can only be seen from the outside, otherwise you’d have to hire a guide. This is the ticket; you have to scan the QR code underneath and then go in. There’s the Tibetan bridge. There’s a procession of people here, it feels like being at the Colosseum. Here we are on the Devil’s Bridge. Anyway, the river water is really beautiful; you can always see the bottom. It’s a little dirty there, but in the middle of the river it’s never dirty. Here you pass under this cave, to reach the most beautiful point of the Gorges, where the thermal water is. The color of the water is exactly that, truly uniquely beautiful. Look, this is where the thermal spring should be. Theoretically, there’s a point of water there where, Instead of being a few degrees, it’s 18-20°C and it should be right there. It’s beautiful here, even if it’s the only beautiful thing to see here. The Tolmin Gorges were carved out over millennia by the erosive action of the Tolminka and Zadlaščica rivers. The tourist trails that make the gorges accessible to visitors were built relatively recently. The first work began in 1953 and was completed in 1958. Now let’s go up here and see the last things that are missing. Here we are on the Tibetan bridge and there’s the confluence of the two rivers. This is where you reach Zabce Tolmin, but it’s the end of the maintained path, so you can go, but I don’t know where it ends, so let’s go see. By the way, once you enter the Tibetan bridge, you can only stay for a quarter of an hour. They don’t come to check it out now, but more to avoid having too many people on it. Ok, we don’t know where we’re going, it’s already 12:30, so let’s go down, otherwise we’ll be home at 11:00 PM this evening. Here is the confluence of the Zadlascica and Tolminka Rivers, on a very rickety Tibetan bridge; in fact, it’s difficult to stand without holding on. Now we have to climb a bit further, to Medvedova glava, where the poisonous mushrooms (unseen) are located, and to Dantejeva jama, or Dante’s cave. This is a waterfall. Inside the gorges, there are also remnants of their past, such as the Devil’s Bridge (Hudičev most in Slovenian), originally built of wood in 1907 and later replaced by a steel structure, and St. Michael’s Bridge (a Tibetan bridge). The gorges are also the southernmost entry point to Triglav National Park. Now we’re climbing towards Dante’s cave and the bridge. There you can see the town of Tolmin, and there’s the road we took to come here. Now let’s climb a bit more and go see Dante’s cave. This is the entrance, clearly closed, to the caves, where Dante is said to have come to draw inspiration for the Inferno of the Divine Comedy. It’s a legend, who knows if it’s true… Here we are at the bridge, folks. Cars pass here, but I don’t know what road it is. The view from this bridge should be beautiful. Well, we’ve only climbed a little. If I were the city council, knowing how many people pass through, I’d also redo the barrier. Here we returned to the information point and now we’re heading back to the car. Anyway, final report: the tour takes about an hour, an hour and a quarter, or an hour and a half, depending on what you do and how often you stop to take photos. It’s expensive at €10, maybe €5 for adults and €2.50-3 for children, which was ideal. However, it’s a tourist spot, so it’s fair to say you pay a lot, but apart from the gorges and the waterfall, everything else is normal. It’s 1:30 PM, we have an hour and a half, maybe even more, by car to get to Lake Bohinj, so we definitely won’t be there before 3:00 PM. I think there’s a man-made lake here. The color of the water is beautiful, and there’s not a single dirty stretch. We’re here to stop for a swim in the woods. The road to the lake is all like this, a typical mountain road; it’s still over an hour to get to the lake. There’s a taxi rank here; if it’s cold or it’s nighttime, you can wait for a taxi, and there’s also a number to call one. We should have gone up to the left, but the road is closed, so we’ll take a bit longer, but we’ll have to take the long way around. There’s a nice spot here, with a chairlift. We’re at Soriska Planina, which must be a mountain hut or something similar. There are some unusual machines here. We’re in Ribcev Laz, and theoretically, the hike should start from the church in this village, but so far I haven’t even seen the lake once . We’ve arrived in Ribcev Laz, the village on Lake Bohinj. There’s a parking lot here, parking lot number one, which costs €3 an hour, but you can park for a maximum of two hours. Now from here we’ll go to the point where the lake tour begins, which should be right there. This is the Church of St. John the Baptist, and the lake tour begins from here. Lake. There’s an entrance fee to the church. The lake is quite nice, but it’s a normal lake. There’s another parking lot here, between Ribcev Laz and Stara Fuzina. There’s also a bar/restaurant here. However, from the village of Stara Fuzina, you can continue to the Vogar Lookout. It’s a 6 km round trip, so allow an hour and a half or so for the hike. From there, you can see the lake from above, but it’s crowded and we don’t have time. That up there you see is the Vogel cable car. There’s a restaurant/resort up there. The cable car that goes up there leaves from Ukanc, the village on the western shore of the lake. In the winter, it’s a ski resort; in the summer, people go there to see the lake from above, but the cost is quite high: €33 round trip for adults and €18 for children. Lake Bohinj is the largest natural lake in Slovenia, located in the heart of Triglav National Park. It was formed approximately 10,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. A glacier carved out the current depression, and the lake filled with meltwater. The Bohinj Valley has been inhabited since ancient times. Archaeological finds demonstrate that the region was populated as early as the Bronze Age, with the first villages developing in the Iron Age, thanks to the presence of iron ore deposits. The lake is closely linked to the legend of Zlatorog, the chamois with golden horns. According to the myth, the hunter who attempted to kill him was killed, and from his blood healing roses grew, restoring the chamois to life. This story has become a symbol of pristine nature and its regenerative power. On the eastern shore of the lake stands the evocative Church of St. John the Baptist, dating back to the 13th century. Its frescoes and architecture bear witness to centuries of religious and cultural life in the area. For a long time, the valley’s economy was based on agriculture, particularly sheep farming and ironworking. With the arrival of World War I, the area became an important military base on the Isonzo front. Subsequently, it capitalized on its natural beauty, becoming one of Slovenia’s main tourist destinations, attractive to those seeking peace and quiet, but also to outdoor sports enthusiasts. We have to get there, from that church, so it’s still a long way. This is the cable car that goes up. There are some houses for rent here. The place is very beautiful, and here we continue our tour of the lake. Look how beautiful, how peaceful, how relaxing. There’s the village meadow over there, but look at the water here. It doesn’t look very good on video, but it’s green, really green. Here it’s also beautiful and much more attractive. There are plenty of tourist resorts here, very beautiful. I don’t know, they’ll be very expensive in high season, but it’s beautiful. There’s a restaurant here. By the way, everyone has an ad for this beer, Lasko pivovarna (pivo means beer in Slovenian). By the way, this is where the Vogel cable car starts, they advertise it here, which is one of the oldest cable cars in Europe. I mean, this is the car that takes you up, and it’s from 1964, so it’s very old, because they’ve never restored it. I think the trail is here, because there are people walking there. This campsite here, Camp Zlatorog, is really cool, there’s an incredible amount of people, but it’s beautiful. There’s a scout center there, the scout center. The trail here is much nicer, though; bikes go by and a lot more people than here; it’s much more touristy. It’s opening up a bit. There’s this church here, look how beautiful it is, the Church of the Holy Spirit, very Orthodox in style, I think. It’s Catholic, but the style seems very Orthodox to me, but it’s closed, so you can’t go in. Oh no, it’s open. Here’s the path that goes above and below, we’re taking the one along the lake. Oh well, we’re about to arrive, come on. Here we are again, they do via ferratas here, if anyone wants. We arrived at the parking lot, half an hour late compared to the scheduled time of two. Maximum hours, but that’s okay. 11.5 km and two and a half hours, with some stops and some not, so about two hours and twenty minutes of walking. Let’s go to Kranjska Gora now. Today I’ll tell you a little about the history of Slovenia, but don’t worry, I’ll only cover the most important milestones . Slovenia has been inhabited since prehistoric times and was conquered by the Roman Empire in 9 BC. After its fall, there was a period of various foreign dominations, while the first Slavic tribes (Slovenia is a Slavic state) settled in the eastern Alpine region in the 6th century AD, mixing with the pre-existing Romanized and Celtic populations. In the 7th century, the Principality of Carantania was formed, considered the first Alpine Slavic state and a precursor to modern Slovenia. From the 14th century, most of the Slovenian territories came under the control of the Habsburg dynasty. For the next six centuries, Slovenian history was closely tied to that of the Habsburg Empire and, later, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation played a crucial role in the birth of the written Slovenian language. Primož Trubar, a Protestant clergyman, published the first book in the Slovenian language, helping to strengthen Slovenian cultural identity . In the 19th century, in the wake of Romanticism and European nationalism, Slovenians began to assert their identity more forcefully, even demanding greater autonomy from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But they barely had time to make this request before the First World War broke out, in which Slovenia saw part of its southwest and west fall into Italian hands and all the rest of its territory incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This union, however, was seen by Slovenians as an opportunity to unite all Slovenian territories into a single entity. During World War II, the whole of Slovenia was divided and occupied by Germany, Italy , and Hungary. A strong resistance movement then developed, led primarily by Tito’s partisans, who, as is well known, were victorious. After the war, Slovenia became one of the six federal republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Although it remained part of the federation, Slovenia was, and still is, the most prosperous and advanced republic of the former Yugoslav republics (including Croatia), and consistently sought greater economic and political autonomy. The collapse of communism and rising tensions within Yugoslavia prompted Slovenia to declare independence on June 25, 1991, after nearly 90% of the population supported this option in a referendum six months earlier. A brief ten-day war of independence followed, during which the Yugoslav army quickly withdrew . Slovenia thus became a sovereign and democratic nation, recognized internationally . After independence, Slovenia embarked on a path of integration with Western Europe, joining NATO in 2004 and the European Union the same year. In 2007, it adopted the euro, and in 2008, it was the first post-communist country to hold the EU Council Presidency. And today, too, at 9:00 PM, we arrived in this place. I can’t take it anymore. We should sleep up there, or something. Now let’s go see what they say at the pizzeria. Anyway, our apartment is on the top floor. You enter through the pizzeria, and there’s the lady who checks you in. I didn’t know if she spoke English or not, because I spoke English to her and she spoke to me in German. I didn’t understand a thing she was saying, but in the end, we understood each other. The apartment is number four. This is the table; there aren’t even five chairs, just four. Here’s a closet and only one towel each. Over there’s the television, which I hope works. The fridge is like this, tiny. And this is the bathroom, which is nice. The shower is very nice, everything new. Anyway, €276 to sleep here plus €17 tourist tax is excessive, crazy, but it was the only place I had at a still normal price. But it’s really crazy. So, they supposedly close at 9 pm, but I asked the lady in Italian for the menu and she gave it to us. The margherita costs €9, but there’s no cover charge. Anyway, pizza outside of Italy isn’t Italian pizza. I mean, I ‘ve never had a worse pizza than this in a restaurant; it tasted like a low-quality frozen pizza. I had the margherita; but actually, they make it themselves because I saw her make it. The pizza was edible, it wasn’t disgusting, it was edible, it was very heavy, but when it got cold, it was really hard, the cheese, which wasn’t even mozzarella, got hard, but still, it was an edible pizza. I mean, it’s expensive, but it’s an edible pizza. We spent €68. And I have to say that the kindness here is truly impeccable, the Slovenians so far ( that one at the bar in Bovec actually cheated us out of it), but otherwise, all the Slovenians are really nice, and they even try to speak Italian, since they know we have a bit of a hard time with English, even if they don’t speak Italian. So, as far as kindness goes, excellent. Now I’m going to grab my stuff and head up; see you tomorrow, that is, next Wednesday (a video will also be released on Saturday). Bye everyone.
In questo video vi porto alla scoperta di due delle tante meraviglie naturali della Slovenia, le Gole di Tolmin e il Lago di Bohinj.
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– il nostro itinerario:
– Gole di Tolmin: https://www.soca-valley.com/it/attrazione/le-gole-di-tolmin/
– Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Ribcev Laz: https://www.janez-krstnik-bohinj.si/
– traccia GPS per raggiungere il Belvedere del Vogar: https://www.alltrails.com/it-it/sentiero/slovenia/bohinj/na-razgledno-tocko-vogar
– Funivia del Vogel: https://vogel.si/
– traccia GPS giro del Lago: https://www.outdooractive.com/it/r/325385868?share=%7E3zcxsxgt%244ossonjm&utm_source=unknown&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=user-shared-social-content
– Gostilna Jozica: https://www.gostilna-jozica.si/
– I feel Slovenia: https://www.slovenia.info/it
– Apartmaji Berginc (Kobarid, super consigliato): https://www.booking.com/hotel/si/apartmaji-berginc.it.html?aid=311091&label=apartmaji-berginc-ae8phbQeRKtW8ZjgCJGG9AS630422623908%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap%3Aneg%3Afi%3Atikwd-2432246950944%3Alp9053436%3Ali%3Adec%3Adm%3Appccp%3DUmFuZG9tSVYkc2RlIyh9YXwxhKG0pUU-MXttaFt6hy8&sid=20b04895caaee2ce87d99adb37c73c3f&age=12&age=14&age=17&checkin=2025-12-27&checkout=2026-01-04&dest_id=-84728&dest_type=city&dist=0&group_adults=2&group_children=3&hapos=1&hpos=1&no_rooms=1&req_adults=2&req_age=12&req_age=14&req_age=17&req_children=3&room1=A%2CA%2C12%2C14%2C17&sb_price_type=total&soh=1&sr_order=popularity&srepoch=1754156868&srpvid=c6117d1d1c170549&type=total&ucfs=1&#no_availability_msg
– Apartment and rooms Maraton (Kranjska Gora): https://www.booking.com/hotel/si/apartma-maraton.it.html?label=it-it-booking-desktop-new-VRZD0IC5lt9Ulq*ajTZ_bgS652828999642%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap%3Aneg%3Afi%3Atikwd-65526620%3Alp9202949%3Ali%3Adec%3Adm&sid=1abf2d51b94d0c6def8a62bb34e6a428&gclid=CjwKCAjwq9rFBhAIEiwAGVAZP_jGnTLJq7oUiGTGfKNd8zXxKpPZ6ai3b-MEcqoS5wMBZCxaDY543RoCazUQAvD_BwE&aid=2311236
– vignette per autostrada: https://evinjeta.dars.si/it
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00:00 introduzione e interno della casa in affitto
03:24 in giro per il paesino
04:27 la Chiesa di San Fermin a Dreznica
06:01 verso le Gole di Tolmin e info utili
11:02 le Gole di Tolmin
17:06 verso il Lago di Bohinj
19:17 il giro del lago di Bohinj
27:03 verso Kranjska Gora e storia Slovenia
29:43 cena, alloggio e conclusione
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