The northwest corner of Slovenia is popular ski country, but outside of the winter season it is a walker’s paradise. Our chosen route gives a sense of being in the mountains but without tricky ascents and descents.  In its summer clothes the area is verdant and the plentiful rivers and waterfalls flow with impossibly pale blue water.  From fashionable Kranjska Gora our route traces a path along the Sava valley and its tributaries, and scales the heights of a mini-mountain overlooking Austria before turning south to explore the relative sophistication of much-photographed Lake Bled.

You will stay in small hotels, B&Bs and selected apartments, and enjoy hearty mountain fayre at huts and refuges, experiencing the renowned friendliness of the people of this little country at the northern limits of the Balkans.