My Christmas vacation was a welcome opportunity to spend a couple of days in Slovakia to visit my friends in Bratislava.
But I also planned to make a few short hiking tours in the Veľká Fatra and Malá Fatra (two mountain ranges in Central Slovakia and part of the vast …
Kriváň, October 1
Predné Solisko, October 2
Rysy, October 3
Skalnaté pleso, October 4
With a break of about one month, I returned to Slovakia for hiking in the High Tatras (Vysoké Tatry) mountain range and to visit my friends in Bratislava.
Here you can find my two previous blog articles about my summer hikes:
1. Slavkovský štít, Zelené pleso (including general information about the High Tatras)
2. Východná Vysoká, Obrovský vodopád
My base camp for my hiking-journeys was …
The following text is not a stand alone article but the direct continuation of part 1 of my High Tatras series: ascending Slavkovský štít and Veľká Svišťovka, visiting the Zelené pleso mountain lake and the Chata pri Zelenom plese, and a short glimpse at the Belianske Tatry mountain range.
That article contains general information about the most popular tourist destination in Slovakia as well.
I hiked in the central part of the High Tatras still and departed from the train station in Poprad early in the morning …
