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Etapa 6. Vuelta a Eslovenia. (Stanjel-Tolmin)

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Distance
42.41 mi
Elevation gain
6,027 ft
Technical difficulty
Difficult
Elevation loss
5,614 ft
Max elevation
3,969 ft
TrailRank 
49
Min elevation
234 ft
Trail type
One Way
Time
9 hours 13 minutes
Coordinates
5341
Uploaded
August 29, 2015
Recorded
August 2015
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near Štanjel, Komen (Slovenija)

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Perhaps the most authentic and beautiful stage of all we did. Maybe also the hardest.

From the beautiful town of Stanjel we immediately leave the road to go to find a secondary road that in several excellent descent corners in which we will test our brakes will take us to the town of Smarje. Simply sublime.
We continue on paved roads passing through small towns that do not appear on the map until we reach a more main road where we walk just 3 kilometers to again catch a secondary road without any traffic and start to go back after Lokavec through some incredible forests and thus with good ramps, narrow road and beautiful views we will reach a town where a little further on is the pass. Once here we started one of the best descents I've done ... long and hard with views of rivers and lakes.
At the end of this descent we find a small town to eat and from here we continue without any news until Tolmin. You can spend the night in this town or go a little higher and spend the night where we did it. Although it is somewhat higher, it is worthwhile to enjoy the tranquility of the Triglav National Park. That yes, buy food in the super market since they do not serve dinners.

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Collado

PictographFountain Altitude 1,768 ft
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Fuente

PictographWaypoint Altitude 1,616 ft
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Apartment Abinkar

Si después de llegar a Tolmin os quedan fuerzas y ganas hay que remontar unos 4 kilómetros y 250 metros de desnivel por una angosta y preciosa garganta hasta llegar a estos apartamentos. La verdad es que vale la pena el esfuerzo ya que la tranquilidad es máxima. Eso si, hay que aprovisionarse en Tolmin ya que no sirven cena. Apartment Abinkar offers accommodation in Tolmin, 45 km from Villach. The property is 33 km from Bled and free private parking is offered. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property. The kitchen is fitted with a microwave and a refrigerator. A flat-screen TV with satellite channels is provided. Other facilities at Apartment Abinkar include a barbecue. Udine is 43 km from Apartment Abinkar, while Kranjska Gora is 31 km away. Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport is 54 km from the property.

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Lokavec

Lokavec (pronounced [lɔˈkaːvəts]) is a settlement on the northern edge of the Vipava Valley northwest of Ajdovščina in the Littoral region of Slovenia.[2] It lies below the slopes of Mount Čaven, below the Salt Mud Slide. It includes the hamlets of Bitovi, Brith (or Britih[3]), Čohi, Gorenje, Kuši, Lahovše, Loretovše, Mizinška Vas (Slovene: Mizinška vas), Paljki (or Palki[3]), and Slokarji.[4]

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Lokve

The village of Lokve is situated in a valley surrounded by a forestat an altitude of 965 meters in the northwest of the Trnovo Plateau. It is only 20 km away from Nova Gorica and it can be reached from Ajdovščina, Idrija, Čepovan and Most na Soči as well. In the northern part of the village a hill called Veliki vrh (Great peak) or Škol (1190 m) is closing the view towards the Čepovan valley, in the east there are Mali Češevik (1104 m) and Ilovica (1166 m), and in the south of Lokve there is Prezren (1128 m), in the south-west lies the Trogar hill and in the north-west Črni vrh (Black peak) (1066 m) and Koprivnica. In the heart of the valley there is a hillock where already in the 18th century a small chapel was built and where nowadays a church dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua stands. Lokve and its surroundings are situated in an entirely karstic region. Thus, there are no water sources at all. However, in the past there were many pools, the so-called kal or lokev, which were formed on the argillaceous earth. The first inhabitants – herdsmen – used those pools for the watering of their animals. Only two natural pools are still existing; one of them is Goveji kal (Beef pond) in the north-eastern part of Lokve. In the past the inhabitants of Lokve and its surroundings worked in the field of forestry, charcoal burning, the producing of wooden tubs and glaziery (there are still some remains of glažuta in Mojska draga). The area in the pith of the Trnovo Forest is fairy-tale like the whole year round. Spring light greeen tunnels of trees cover cycle tracks and footpaths. The shadows of huge treetops offer peaceful refuge from the summer heat. Mountain tracks invite to the near summits (Poldanovec – 1303 m, Mrzovec – 1406 m, Golaki – 1495) also those visitors who demand steeper ascents. Autumn fiery colours invite us to take a walk and to prepare for the white winter idyll when again we can decide to go on the longer or shorter routes for cross-country skiing in the calm forest. However, the fairy-tale is not over yet. The village of Lokve offers pleasures of the mini-golf, tennis, volleyball and seven-a-side enthusiasts as well as those who want to take a walk around the village on the path, which was once used by foresters that supervised the forest surface (Path behind the wall). Nature enthusiasts will probably be attracted more by an interesting glade at Mala lazna which can be a starting-point for hikers, cyclists and cross-country skiers or the natural botanical and forest reserve, called Paradana, and its famous Velika ledena jama (Great ice cave, 385 meters deep) which was once known as a golden cave for ice that was exported even to Egypt. All the visitors will be without any doubt tempted by the exquisite homemade food (bread, venison,…) and the night's lodging in Loke and Lazna.

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Most Na Soci

Description and location Most na Soči is located on a rocky crest above the confluence of Soča and Idrijca rivers. In the past these two riverbeds, deeply carved into the rocky slopes, provided the settlement with excellent protection from intruders. Due to the nearby Doblar Hydro Plant, the basins of the river were entirely inundated and below the settlement the vast accumulation lake was formed, which now attracts both fishermen and visitors, who can stroll along well-kept, panoramic and none too demanding paths. History Exceptional archaeological finds – more than 7000 grave sites discovered so far – rank this location among one of the most important prehistoric settlements in the Europe. Rich finds date back in the period from the late Bronze Age to the Roman period. Most of them originate from the Iron Age community, which was named after our settlement as the “Sveta Lucija Culture”. The finds are on display in the museums of Vienna, Trieste and Tolmin, but archaeologists of the newly founded Tolmin Museum still come up with new, stunning finds. Thematic trails Nearby Most na Soči there are two thematic trails: - 14 vital energy points are connected in The energy trail - The cultural and historical trail of Most na Soči takes us through the three thousand years of the existence of Most na Soči.

PictographWaypoint Altitude 645 ft
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Restaurant

Menú correcto y a buen precio.

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Smarje

Šmarje pri Jelšah is a town and a municipality in eastern Slovenia. The area was part of the traditional region of Lower Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja statistical region. The development of the settlement is associated with a medieval mansion known as Jelšingrad on a slight hill northwest of the town. The local parish church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary (Slovene: Sveta Marija Vnebovzeta) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor. It dates to the late 13th century with 18th- and 19th-century additions.

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Apartmaji in sobe Marija Jera Štanjel

Good family treatment. They have place where to lodge bikes although as it was raining and the bicycles came full of mud we left them in the street, in a small garage. Although they do not do dinners they call you a Slovenian "Telepizza" more than correct. The homemade and fantastic breakfast. They also sell wine or beer for dinner (water and soft drinks, of course)

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Stanjel

Due to its good traffic-geographic and strategic position, Štanjel was important from the youthful Iron Age until today. The population has enjoyed the greatest flowering in the Romanesque era when it extended through the grove against the peak of Turn. The hill was fortified again in the 11th century - 12th century. - Even today you can see the ruins of the tower on the peak of the Turn hill. There are very many Gothic elements that show that the locality had already reached the amplitude of today. The remains of the castle date back to the Middle Ages but only at the end of the 17th century did the Cobenzli counts give them the definitive image. Because of the Turkish invasions Štanjel was protected by a wall at the end of the 15th century.

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Super Market

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Tolmin

Tolmin (Italian Tolmino, German Tolmein) is a locality and a municipality with the same name in the western region of Slovenia near the confluence of the Soča and Tolminka rivers. The old part of the city that gave name to the whole region. It is the largest settlement in the Upper Valley of the Isonzo (in Slovenian Zgornje Posocje). It is also its economic, cultural and administrative center. Its main attractions are the old quarter, a modern sports park, and the ruins of the thousand-year-old castle Kozlov Rob.

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