Triglav National Park travel guide
Triglav National Park attracts over 2.5 million visitors a year. Its stunning alpine mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers offer a dramatic backdrop to outdoor activities such as hiking and cycling and white-water rafting, plus skiing in winter.
There are 25 settlements in the park and a population of around 2,500. Protected animals include brown bears, lynx and golden eagles.
Places to visit in Triglav National Park
The wild beauty of Lake Bohinj
While Lake Bled is postcard-perfect, its sister lake 26km (16 miles) southwest in Triglav National Park is larger and wilder, set in unspoilt alpine landscape of pine woods and lush meadows speckled with wild flowers, against a backdrop of snowcapped mountains. Unlike Bled, Lake Bohinj (Bohinjsko Jezero) is almost untouched by modern development; building on the shores of the lake is prohibited. Bohinj is an excellent base for hiking, with a number of well-kept mountain paths.
Kranjska Gora - Slovenia's best ski resort
Northwest of Bled, close to both the Austrian and Italian borders, lies Kranjska Gora, Slovenia’s biggest and best-known skiing resort and also a good base for hiking in summer. Each year in March, Kranjska Gora hosts the Planica Ski Jumping World Cup Championship, and it was here that Finland’s Matti Hautamaki jumped an amazing 231m (758ft) in 2003, a world record that held for two years.
The resort is well equipped with big hotels and family-run guest houses, though there are few cultural attractions besides the Liznjek House, an 18th-century brick-and-wood farmhouse devoted to an ethnographic exhibition. The Kranjska Gora Fun Bike Park offers a series of exciting downhill tracks plus mountain bikes to rent.
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For more lakeside fun, try Lake Bled
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