Otliško okno Hike Part 1

Today we got up to some clouds in the mountains and a bit of rain where we were. We got ready and headed out for our hike to see what it was like when we got there. Originally I had planned to just do part of this long 14km one way hike that included going by this hole in a rock, Otliško okno, that was pictured on a lot of advertisements for things to do here, but I looked at the trail last night and it starts by hiking straight up then levels out and you hike along the ridge and the hole is not until 10km from the start. I did have something else I wanted to do today so I looked to see if we could start on the other end and found that we could actually park right near the hole and hike in from there (and the parking is already up in the mountains so no steep climbing!) so I decided to do that.

When we got there it was still cloudy, but not raining (though we drove through rain) so we headed out and walked for 45min away from the rain to see what we could see and found some nice views! Then we headed back towards where we came from and walked closer to the edge on a different trail and see even more views (and the clouds rolling over the mountains!). We took a break near Otliško okno and realized there is a second one if we followed the path downhill a little bit so we did that and found the small hole in the rocks which was fun. Then back up to check out the main one and it was pretty cool, especially since there was a nice cool breeze blowing through it!

Along the path there were lots of info signs and most of them talked about how bored the herders were when they were up there so they would do things like take to the ladybugs and throw rocks over the edge and listen to them fall. But one was about the blue butterflies there and we did see a lot of them!Read more