Velika Planina Hike Part 1

Today we got up and headed to a hike to Velika Planina - a large plateau with lots of Shepard’s huts. We got there with perfect timing for parking as we wanted to start from the higher, smaller parking lot and there was just enough space for us there! It was interesting because they are not that old because the Nazis burned them all of them to the ground in WWII so everything there was built since then. But it was a gorgeous hike and pretty easy wandering around. Lots of cows up there as well and you are not supposed to pet them, but the sign made it look like giants shouldn’t pick them up!

I was also not prepared for it to be so cold today! Yesterday I was dying cause it was so hot and today I had to wear my layers ands warm headband so my ears didn’t freeze! It was overcast this morning so that didn’t help and the wind was very cold! I much prefer cold to hot, but I thought it would have been warmer!

There were also some info signs and one of them talked about the giant holes in the ground and how someone once went in one and couldn’t find his way out and wandered in circles until he laid down to die…which seemed a bit ridiculous as the sides were not that steep and they were not that big that you couldn’t see the top or easily get out…Read more