I am planning in trip to Slovenia, focusing mostly on hiking but with a bit of other stuff mixed in. It is strictly speaking not a photo trip, but I will always have my camera with me and plan to take lots of photos, but the focus is hiking.
Suggestions for scenic hikes, cities, sights, etc would be appreciated. I plan to visit the areas around Ptuj, Maribor, Lasko, Kamniska Bistrica, a bit from the Julian Alps, Logarska Dolina, Bohinj lake, etc, but I will be by car so I am fairly flexible.
If you have been there and recall places which you particularly liked (including hotels in remote areas), I am interested. (Incidentally, also places that would occupy a 4 year old when we are not hiking, but she can play for hours with pinecones and a stream, so I am not worried.)
i was in slovenia for the last time in the 1990s, and I was like 12 back then. I only really heard/read about lake Bled. Would be nice to go there eventually but unfortunately not in the near future for me.
If you can choose, this is a bad time to visit. The capital is overcrowded by tourists, it is worse than Venice twenty years ago, and everything else is overcrowded too. Including Lake Bohinj. May or September would be better. Or winter.
Bled is really nice but VERY touristy, but in general in Slovenia you can’t do anything wrong with just going up a mountain, there are tons of really nice hiking paths, waterfalls, grand vistas and so on. But don’t expect to get a pure landscape shot without people in summer…
The Tatras are not in Slovenia but in Slovakia, Slovenia is in the South, Slovakia in the North (from Austria).
But Slovakia/Tatras are also supposed to be very nice.
This was a trip I had planned that was cancelled during COVID… It’s not a bad site for some ideas of routes and things to see. I think they have a couple of different versions you could peruse for any information…
I’ve used regional subreddits for travel plans lately. There’s an r/Slovenia subreddit that’s mostly in Slovenian but if you word search in English (say, “hiking”), you’ll get English queries and responses. After gathering tips, you can run your itinerary by locals for feedback.
