Lakes and Rivers of the Julian Alps

Itinerary

Days 1 - 3 | Lake Bohinj – Triglav Lakes – Soča Valley

We meet at Lake Bohinj and hike right from above the lake into the heart of the Triglav National Park past waterfalls, forests, alpine meadows, villages, and lakes. Our first walk will take us along a beautiful gorge up a mountain river Mostnica to a crashing 20-meter waterfall. From there we will continue our way up until we reach two gorgeous alpine villages with traditional wooden houses and views of the Alps. We will spend our first night in a cozy hut by a lake at Planina pri Jezeru. The following day we will head further into the park, visiting most of the seven Triglav Lakes, and spend another night in the mountains at the highest lying Triglav lakes. On the third day we take our last look towards Triglav and its lakes and descend to the other side of the Julian Alps to Trenta in the Upper Soča Valley, where we will also spend the night in a comfortable hotel.

Day 4 | Soča Valley

A marvelous day of hiking along the otherworldly Soča River, famous for its crystal clear emerald green water, and visiting small towns, and a WWI museum. We will spend the night in Kobarid, Caporetto in Italian, an enchanting little town at the foothills of Mt. Krn also known for the last battle of the bloody Isonzo Front, when the opposing Italian army finally withdrew from the Slovenian territory after two long years.

Days 5 - 6 | Kobarid – Lake Krn – Lake Bohinj

The next day’s big hike will take us through forests and more dreamy alpine villages across spectacular mountains all the way to yet another lake – Lake Krn, where we will spend the night in a hut. On the sixth day, we will hike from Lake Krn across a mountain pass back to Lake Bohinj, where our adventure started five days before. We will transfer to Mojstrana, where we will spend the next two nights.

Day 7 | Mojstrana – Krma Valley

The following day we will have a beautiful hike in the Krma Valley surrounded by an impressive amphitheater of high mountains and almost vertical walls.

Days 8 - 9| Peričnik Waterfall – Kriški Podi – Kranjska Gora

Our last two-day mountain adventure in the Julian Alps will take us from the gorgeous Vrata Valley, the neighboring valley to the Krma Valley from the day before, first to the gushing 52-meter tall Lower Peričnik Fall and the 16-meter  tall Upper Peričnik Fall, and then to the beautiful kingdom of the Alpine ibex. We will spend the night in the Pogačnik hut in the midst of the highest peaks of the Julian Alps. The next day we will conquer a 2,410-meter mountain Križ, and then descend all the way down to “civilization” / the town of Kranjska Gora, where we will spend our last night.

Day 10

Departure day; drop off in your chosen town.