Slap Kozjak Hike

This morning we woke up to cloudy skies, but no rain so we headed off for a hike to Slap Kozjak from camp. The first part is along the Soca river which is so gorgeous! Really there will be all the photos of the river today as we spend the day along it!

Once you cross the Soca river you head up the Kozjak stream to the falls and it was a really nice walk. And the falls were gorgeous! It said it was in a cave and an info sign said that in the 18th century the authorities banned the breeding of goats which was the main source of income for the people here so they hid the goats at the cave waterfall and preserved the only indigenous goat breed - Drežniška goats!

On the way back to the car we made the trail into a loop and went by some old Italian WWI trenches which was interesting. I didn’t even realize there were trenches here from then! We then went by Napoleon’s bridge - in 1750 the old one was built and his troops used it to go to Predel Pass, but it was blown up by the Austrians in WWI, but the Italians rebuilt it later. There was a whole history loop we could have walked, but these were the only parts were saw. Super interesting things I didn’t know before! It started raining just before we got to the bridge, but luckily not too bad and it wasn’t that long of a walk back to the car to head on to our next stop!Read more