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  • Day 16

    Soča

    September 19, 2017 in Slovenia ⋅ 🌧 0 °C

    Spent the whole day on a tour of Triglav National Park led by a Slovenian guide, Samo. Nice to have a break from big cities. The landscape of Slovenia is incredible.
    We started by trying to climb up one of the bigger mountains in the van, but it snowed so heavily that the very steep road was impassable - although Samo still tried to zig zag his way up whilst we all quietly shat ourselves that we would skid off the edge. Eventually he admitted defeat and turned round
    It was pretty wet all day but we didn't care, it made the rivers flow fast - which was great for white water rafting down the river Soča. Have never seen a river look so blue. An amazing experience and for a river that is normally full of other rafts, we had the whole thing to ourselves. My friend Tim filmed it on his GoPro. Couldn't stop grinning the whole time. We had multiple other stops at hidden spots including at a waterfall where the river was so full that we had to wade through the water to get to it. Then to finish we got on a car train which went through all the mountains instead of us having to drive around them. Much quicker.
    Samo took me to Ljubljana himself once he'd dropped everyone else off.
    Was welcomed to my hostel in LJ with a mug of hot wine. Perfect day
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