Velika Planina 🇸🇮

After exploring the Postojna Cave and their resident olms, we headed to Velika Planina (The Big Pasture Plateau). The Plateau is reached by cable car and double chair ski lift taking us up to the peak of Mount Gradišče (1,666 m). The peak overlooks the Slovenia Julian Alps and the largest herdsman’s village in Europe.

It was late in the season (and late in the day), so there wasn’t much activity in the herdsman village. Nonetheless it was a beautiful village with traditional wooden huts that are used by the herdsman’s in the summer months to tend to their herds. Had we made it to the village earlier in the day we might have been invited into one of the huts to experience the homemade dairy delicacies. However, we got to try a cheese dumpling desert thing (kobariški štruklji?) which was very tasty!

We ventured around the village to the chapel of Snow Mary where some curious cows checked us out.

We wish we had more time to explore the beautiful scenery of the plateau and spend a night in one of the huts, but we had to hurry along to catch the lifts down the mountain side.  We're off to Bled to explore the Triglav National Park.