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overnight. The route follows a well-marked trail under
Viševnik
(2050m) and over the
Studor Saddle
(1892m), before contouring around the slopes of Tosc (2275m). Three hours of hiking brings you to the
Vod-
nikov Dom na Velem Polju
mountain hut, at 1817m. You can sleep here, or continue another two hours to the
Dom Planika pod Triglavom
at 2401m. From here, it's an hour of scrambling along the ridge, grabbing hold of
metal spikes and grips, to the
top of Mt Triglav
.
Route 2: From Lake Bohinj
This longer walk starts from near the
Savica Waterfall
, on the western end of Lake Bohinj, and normally re-
quires two overnights. The path zig-zags up the steep
Komarča Crag
(1340m), with an excellent view of the
lake. Four hours north of the falls is
Koča pri Triglavskih Jezerih
, at 1685m, where you spend the first night.
On the second day, hike north along the valley, then northeast to the desert-like
Hribarice Plateau
(2358m).
Then descend to the
Dolič Saddle
(2164m) and the
Tržaška Koča na Doliču
hut, at 2151m. You could
well carry on to
Dom Planika pod Triglavom
about 1½ hours to the northeast, but this is often packed. It's bet-
ter to stay where you're sure there's a bed unless you've booked ahead. From Dom Planika it's just over an hour to
the
Triglav summit.
Triglav National Park
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Triglav National Park (Triglavski Narodni Park), abbreviated TNP everywhere in Slove-
nia, with an area of 83,800 hectares (just over 4% of Slovenian territory), is one of the
largest national reserves in Europe. It is a pristine, visually spectacular world of rocky
mountains - the centrepiece of which is Mt Triglav (2864m), the country's highest peak -
as well as river gorges, ravines, canyons, caves, rivers, streams, forests and Alpine mead-
ows.
Although Slovenia counts three large regional parks and 44 much smaller country (or
'landscape') parks, this is the country's only gazetted national park, and it includes almost
all of the Alps lying within Slovenia. The idea of a park was first mooted in 1908 and
realised in 1924, when 1600 hectares of the Triglav Lakes Valley were put under tempor-
ary protection.
The area was renamed Triglav National Park in 1961 and expanded 20 years later to in-
clude most of the eastern Julian Alps. Today the park stretches from Kranjska Gora in the
north to Tolmin in the south and from the Italian border in the west almost to Bled in the
east. The bulk of the park lies in Gorenjska, but once you've crossed the awesome Vršič
Pass - at 1611m, Slovenia's highest - and begun the descent into the Soča Valley, you've
entered Primorska.
