The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
The village of Skocjan sits on a karst plateau
A moss-covered country church near Skocjan Caves
A land of karst, a type of limestone that erodes easily to form caves
Water pours out of the caves below Skocjan
Leaving incredible Skocjan caves (where photos were not allowed)
The misty Reka River leaving the caves
The beautiful Alpine valley of Logarska Dolina in north-central Slovenia, one of the many special places that our Couchsurfing hosts introduced us to
Chris with our great Couchsurfing host, Niko
Chris and Melissa enjoying the mountains
A tree growing over a boulder (with Niko for scale)
The mountain hut at the upper end of Logarska Dolina
Looking over the edge of the Rinka waterfall
Rinka waterfall seen from the bottom
The spray felt wonderfully cool on a hot day!
The view from a farm where we stopped to buy fresh berry yogurt
One of several small lakes that our hosts in Kranj took us to see
A typical northwest Slovenian village church
Tiny lake Jasna and the mountains above Kranjska Gora
This little lake is even colder than Bohinj
Scenes from our hike from the Vrsic pass to Slemenova spica
Chris contemplates a trail over the scree slopes
Sleepy sheep in an upland meadow
Chris tries to shoo the sheep away from our lunch
Melissa proud that she reached the end of the trail