The Triglav National Park is known for its wonderful swimming lakes, wild karst mountains and warm Slovenian hospitality.  Triglav is the highest mountain peak at 2864m and this long weekend journey will be a 3 day circuit of Triglav including an ascent of the summit.  This will be a physical journey with 1500m ascent on the first day and across Via Ferrata protected easy scrambles.  It will be a stunning alpine adventure through a wild mountain landscape with a lakeside campsite and swimming in beautiful Lake Bohinj – the perfect relaxation after the mountain.  Freshwater swimming and the high mountains make this an ideal opportunity to escape the urban limits, clear your mind and find your own flow in the alpine wilderness of the Julian Alps.

Day 1 (Thu) – You will be picked up from Ljubljana airport at 16.30 and then have a 90 minute drive to our base camp at Ukanc, which translates as the ‘end of the earth’.  Ukanc is a beautiful campsite location on the edge of beautiful Lake Bohinj that offers open water swimming surrounded by mountains and forests.  We will set up tents, cook together and have time to swim and relax.

Day 2 (Fri) – We will have a 90 minute drive to Vrata valley at the base of Triglav.  Our trek will begin by the Aljazev hut at 1000m and we will ascend by the Tominsek path.  Some of this will be on Via Ferrata – easy scrambling over sometimes exposed paths but protected by being clipped into fixed steel cables.  This day will involve 1500m of ascent but we will have all day for this.  We cross the spectacular Karst plateau that surrounds Triglav and spend the night at the Kredarica hut at 2500m.

Day 3 (Sat) – This will be our summit day.  We will make our way up the final 400m ascent to the summit of Triglav at 2864m.  Much of this will again be easy scrambling up a beautiful mountain but protected by Via Ferrata cables.  From the summit we will descend the same distance down the other side and then have a long steady descent down to the Dolicu hut at 2150m.  We will overnight at the Dolicu hut.

Day 4 (Sun) – The third trek day is a half day walk but is through some spectacular mountain landscapes.  From Dolicu we will descend part of the way north into the Trenta valley before ascending uphill again to the Luknja pass on the North side of Triglav.  We then have a long steep descent back into the Vrata valley and our pick up point.  We will drive back to our base camp in the afternoon for another swim and base camp dinner.

Day 5 (Mon) – We will have a relaxed final morning to savour Lake Bohinj and to pack up our base camp.  We will then drive back to Ljubljana airport arriving around 14.00.