Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
9am-10pm Fri-Sun)
The largest and fanciest of Ljubljana's water parks, with separate
theme areas: Adventure World, with a half-dozen pools and water slides; Thermal Temple,
with indoor and outdoor thermal pools; and Land of Saunas, with a dozen different types
of saunas. Get there by bus 27, stop BTC Emporium.
Tivoli Recreation Centre
( 431 51 55; Celovška cesta 25)
In Park Tivoli, this centre has an indoor swimming
pool (open mid-September to June), a fitness centre, clay tennis courts and a roller-skating
rink, which becomes an ice rink in winter. It also has a popular sauna.
SWIMMING
Walking & Hiking
Popular with walkers and joggers, the marked
Trail of Remembrance
(Pot Spominov)
runs for 34km around Ljubljana where German barbed wire once completely enclosed the
city during WWII. The easiest places to reach the trail are from the AMZS headquarters
(Slovenian Automobile Association; take bus 6, 8 or 11 to the AMZS stop), or from Trg
Komandanta Staneta just northwest of the central office of the public transport authority
LPP (take bus 1 to the Remiza stop). You can also join it from the northwestern side of
Žale Cemetery (take bus 19 to the Nove Žale stop), or south of Trnovo (take bus 9 to the
Veliki Štradon stop).
An easy and very popular hiking destination from Ljubljana is
Šmarna Gora
, a 669m-
high hill above the Sava River, 12km northwest of Ljubljana. Take bus 25 from Slovenska
cesta or Gosposvetska cesta to the Medno stop, or bus 8 to Brod and begin walking.
Another way to go is via the Smlednik bus from the main station and then follow the
marked path from the 12th-century Smlednik Castle.
Courses
Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language
(Center za Slovenščino kot Drugi/Tuji Jezik; 241 86 47;
www.centerslo.net
;
Kongresni
trg 12)
The Centre for Slovene as a Second/ Foreign Language offers a full palette of
Slovene language courses suited to short-term visitors, students or serious linguistic study.
The centre offers a free 90-minute survival course in Slovene every Wednesday from 5pm
to 6.30pm at the Slovenian Tourist Information Centre (
Click here
)
.
LANGUAGE COURSE
