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Day 1: Arrive Ljubljana







Private car pick up at the Ljubljana airport and transfer to the beautiful town of Ljubljana. Check into your hotel. Overnight in Ljubljana.







Meals: not included







Accommodation: Hotel 4*, Ljubljana







Visit: not inclduded







Transportation: private car/minivan/minubus depending on group size







Day 2: Ljubljana City Tour







Meet your guide for a brief orientation followed by a walking tour in Ljubljana. You will see most of the attractions in the city center including the Parliament building, Republic square, Opera house, National Gallery, Orthodox Church, the Triple Bridge, Town Hall, Cathedral, open market, Prešeren square, Open Air theater, Congress square, Cooperative Bank, and Dragon bridge. The most distinctive feature of Slovenia 's largest city is its medieval hilltop Castle which offers a breathtaking panorama of the city together with excellent views of the old town and surrounding area. Rest of the day you can spend on your own. Overnight in Ljubljana.







Meals: breakfast







Accommodation: Hotel 4*, Ljubljana







Visit: Ljubljana







Transportation: private car/minivan/minubus depending on group size







Day 3: Bohinj-Bled







Your driver/guide will pick you up to spend the next 5 days with you starting out on a drive to the beautiful Bohinj Lake. Its water bursts from the Dolina Sedmerih Jezer (The Seven Triglav Lakes Valley) where the spectacular Savica waterfall flows through the natural cavernous walls of Komarča. In the afternoon drive to overnight in Bled. Overnight in Bled.







Meals: breakfast







Accommodation: Hotel 3/4*, Bled







Visit: Bohinj and Bled lake







Transportation: private car/minivan/minubus depending on group size







Day 4: Vrsic Pass to Kobarid







The spectacular Vršič Pass is the highest pass in Slovenia and in the Eastern Julian Alps. It connects Upper Carniola with the Trenta Valley in the Slovenian Littoral, rising from Kranjska Gora in a series of 50 hairpin bends, traversing the high mountains near the Slovenian-Italian-Austrian border before descending into the Soča (Isonzo) Valley. This amazing road was built in 1915 during the First World War to supply the front line. The history of Kobarid and the Soča or Isonzo Front is told in the Kobarid Museum, voted best museum of Europe in 1993. The exhibits, the large reliefs of the surrounding mountains, the rich photographic material, and audio visual presentation offers a sensitive narrative of those hard and bloody days near the Soča, described in A Farewell to Arms by then American war correspondent Ernest Hemingway.







Overnight in charming guesthouse of Hiša Franko: Once a roadside village inn, a village mill, a large countryside estate, a hospital during World War I, an agricultural estate, and finally Hiša Franko of today, a beautiful countryside estate with three generations welcoming guests to their home and Ana's kitchen serving seasonal produce, homemade cheese, butter and breads, meadow-grazed lamb, and more sourced from the estate and local farmers. Overnight at Hisa Franko in Kobarid.







Meals: breakfast, dinner







Accommodation: Guesthouse 3*, Kobarid







Visit: Soča valley, Kobarid







Transportation: private car/minivan/minibus depending on group size







Day 5: Skocjan Caves to Ljubljana















Morning drive to the Škocjan caves, starting at the visitors center and then into the man-made passageway in the Globočak Collapse Doline continuing through the Silent Cave (Tiha jama), a fossil passage filled with numerous limestone formations. Exiting the cave, you look over a spectacular view of the underground canyon of the Reka River crossing on the Cerkvenik Bridge, suspended nearly fifty meters high. Drive to Ljubljana.







Meals: breakfast







Accommodation: not included







Visit: Škocjan caves







Transportation: private car/minivan/minubus depending on group size

Day 1: Arrival

Pick up from Ljubljana airport and transfer to Ljubljana. In late afternoon or evening we do a 2-hours guided tour of Ljubljana, a city which in 2015 got a Bronze Access City Award. We walk around the city centre that was highly denoted by a Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik and take the funicular up to Ljubljana Castle.

Picture of Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia

 Budget/comfort/quality 3*

Day 02: Day trip to Stajerska (Styria) region

Meals: Lunch

In the morning, we drive across Črnivec Pass to Upper Savinja Valley. The region sits already in the middle of the mountains but still have some influences from Štajerska which can be seen in the warm and welcoming locals. We visit Mozirski gaj flower park, the largest of this kind in Slovenia. From here we take a short ride to Logarska Valley, one of the most beautiful glacier valleys in Slovenia. After lunch with some local specialties in Logarska Valley we take the opportunity to walk along the trail of which one part is accessible for wheelchair users. On the way back we drive through Austria to Jezersko and back to Ljubljana.

Day 03: Best of the Alps

Meals: Lunch

After the breakfast we will check out from the hotel and we drive to Bohinj and start enjoying beauties of our biggest natural lake Bohinj which is already a part of Triglav National Park. The lake is situated between some of the highest mountains of Slovenia. As view is always a good idea, we take the cable car up to a winter ski resort Vogel, 1625 meters above the sea level. From here we get the best possible view of Triglav, our highest mountain, and a picturesque lake far below us.

From here we drive to Bled with its famous island with church and medieval castle on the rock above the lake; so with just a little of imagination we feel like in a fairy tale. We settle in a hotel in Bled and relax a bit. After that a short walk around the lake will bring us to the best sweetshop in the area, where a typical Bled cream cake “kremšnita” has been produced in the same way for decades. Yummy! Dinner in hotel and free time in the evening.

Day 04: Boka Waterfall

Meals: Lunch

On this day we change the climate from Alpine to Mediterranean. From Bled we take the windy road up to 1611 meter above sea level. The road was constructed during the First World War by Russian prisoners and connects Sava Valley in the north to Soča Valley in the south. After a short stop for beautiful views at the top of Vršič Pass we decline to the river Soča. River is popular for rafting and other activities and it is believed that this is one of the most stunning rivers in Europe. The great green color of its waters will accompany us most of the day. On the way we see Boka waterfall, one of the highest waterfalls in Slovenia.

We make a stop in Kobarid where we will have a lunch and visit the museum of cheese production, as the region is very famous for it. From here we continue to Goriška Brda, the area that is famous for producing delicious wines. After some tasting (what else?) of rebula, tokaj, zelen, pinela or vitovska grganja (all these sorts of grapes can be found only in Slovenia and small part of Northern Italy) we spend a night between the vineyards of Brda.

Picture of Kobarid seen in the distance against the rising mountains

Day 05: Kras(Karst)

Kras (Karst) to Slovenians mean something like Provence to French – small hills rising up from flat land that is covered with fields and vineyards. One of the best things about this region is food and wine. Traditional dried pork meat pršut (prosciutto) is produced here, which is prepared only with salt, some local bora wind and a lot of love. When it’s washed down with strong red wine Teran, you’ll get an idea of what heaven looks like… We try all these delicacies at one of many farms that offer their homemade food to hungry trespassers.

Next stop is Lipica, where white Lipizzaner horses are born and raised since the 15th century. When we arrive to the short but interesting Slovenian seaside, we base ourselves in a hotel in Portorož, Strunjan or Izola, just steps away from warm Adriatic Sea.

Picture of Lipizzaner horses pulling a carraige through a beautiful green park

Day 06: Piran

In the morning we do a guided tour of Piran. The city is one of the best preserved medieval towns on Adriatic coast with beautiful setting on a peninsula, narrow cobbled lanes and a church and fortress high above the town.

Afternoon off for swimming and enjoying the warm Mediterranean climate.

Picture of the City of Piran Slovenia

Day 07: Skocjan Caves

Meals: Lunch

On the way back to our capital we make a stop in Škocjan caves, the only natural beauty in Slovenia that is listed on UNESCO world heritage list. As the cave is protected, it’s unfortunately not possible to visit it on a wheelchair. Instead of that we take part in a virtual 3-D tour of the cave, which is not far away from the real walk (believe us, we got scared of the high walls and deep falls a couple of times…).

After the lunch, transfer back to Ljubljana and free time for shopping or sightseeing.

Stunning architecture under deep blue skies in the city of Ljubljana Slovenia

Day 08 : Departure

Transfer to Ljubljana airport and departure.