We are staying in Lake Bled for a week & are having an amazing local experience staying with a wonderful family. It is great to talk and share knowledge with Stane and Liliana and their family of 4 adult children. Katie is lucky to be able to help with the daily dog walking! We make ourselves at home in the summer house. If you ever get the chance you must visit Krivec Apartments in Lake Bled.
The lake has a paved 6km circumference, on walking around the lake we stop off to have a swims at different points, do adventure activities at Inter Sport, pass by the world rowing pavilion before arriving at the village for a drink.
We visited Vintgar Gorge that was created during the last ice age, it's a sheer canyon reaching heights of 100m. The clear waters were stunning. Then we carried on to explore the Julian Alps reaching 2,864m at Triglav. We drove up to Vrsic at 1,611m, a very windy road in the alps with over 50 horseshoe bends to get you up & down the mountain - there was some spectacular scenery to be seen on this drive. We stopped at a local inn for food which including some local favourites including civicippi, deer goulash and veal escalope and Bled cream cake.
Stane let us use his 23 year old boat to row out to Bled Island on the lake where there is a Baroque church, on rowing out to the island Marvin tried to pull up alongside the American Ladies rowing team (that were here training) for a photo! Mahe Drysdale is again very popular here. We each rang the church bells which is meant to bring good-luck, climbed the bell tower and tasted their local Potica cake. We visited the Bled Castle, before spending the afternoon at Straza Hill, an adventure park in Lake Bled with suspended footbridges, monkey bars (up to 8m above the ground) and zip lines. The kids were attached with harnesses to the steel cables as they attempted all the activities. To get back down the hill we had to get in our individual toboggans and speed down the 520m track reaching up to 40km - a real roller-coaster ride! A chairlift took us up the hill.
We spent a day exploring the capital city of Ljubliana travelling in via train, we joined a free walking tour to learn knowledge and the history of the city crossing the canals from place to place. The University is still FREE here, so over 60,000 students in the city so very young and vibrant. We just enjoyed soaking up the atmosphere of the place. We took a gondola up to the castle to explore and get some great city views, it was used to house POW's during WW2.
We drove to the Bohinj region where we climbed around Vogel Ski Resort after taking the gondola (cable car) up 1,535m. We had spectacular views of Lake Bohinj and the Triglav National Park including Mt Triglav at 2,835m which is the highest peak in Slovenia. We walked up paths and down the very steep skifields for 3 hours.
If only there were a Lake Bled near Taranaki in NZ, it would be a place to go for peace, tranquillity and a good dose of the outdoors in a mountain setting.
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