Today the main activity was the Emerald River Adventure with 3Glav Adventures.
Highlights of the day were hiking to a pass in the Alps, "hiking" (really clinging to ropes) to the source of the Soca river, swimming in a very cold waterfall seeing Lake Bohinj, and some great pizza back in town. Again I will mostly let the pictures tell the story
We had a nice big breakfast, with some truly aweful coffee at our hotel before the van came to pick us up a 8 am.
Lots of great scenery on the drive. In this picture you can see the traditional hay drying racks which are basically the national symbol of Slovenia
First stop of the day was at this little lake to have us all sit on the golden goat. I guess Slovenian kids stories are kinda sad because the tail of the goat was something about the mountain goat protecting the area, a kid dying trying to kill it and then the goat taking away all the fairies (or something like that)
Hike up to the pass
Old WWI hut that was used to transport weapons and stuff across the pass. This area had lots of WWI stuff because she pretty terrible fighting happened here.
Woman's face in the mountain
These sheep were begging for ice cream
View from the top of our hike
This was how a lot of the hike to the Soca river source looked like. Pretty sure in America this would never be allowed, but we saw plenty of older Slovenians including a blind guy doing this hike.
Source of the Soca river
When one of the girls on the trip heard it was our anniversary soon she gave us this heart shaped rock
Later on the way to lunch we stopped for a picture of the Soca river
Our group decided on a picnic lunch. All of this food was less than 8 dollars including some good Slovenian cheese and salami. Also I had an ice cream cone :-) The picnic was at a grocery store in Bovec.
First stop after lunch was rafting. After getting into our sexy but hot rafting gear we were off down the river with our guide Teddy. On the way we all stopped to jump off a rock to go swimming. The guide was really good and got us safely down the little rapids
Our group in the last little rapids
After returning the rafting gear we drove a little, then had a 20 min hike to this waterfall. It was in the gouge and the water was quite cold
I waded in up to my knees, Zach actually went in and swam for a few seconds
After hiking back to the car and a short drive we stopped for 5 min for anyone who wanted to jump off this bridge. I said no way, Zach was excited. If you look closely you can see him nearly in the water. He nearly gave me a heart attack because he managed to dislocate his arm going into the water. Luckily he popped it back in so I didn't have to swim in to get him.
Another short drive brought us to the car train. You just drive right onto the train and ride in the car through tunnels and such for about 30 min. They gave us some beer during the wait that had the golden goat symbol on it.
View from our car
Final stop was Lake Bohinj for some pictures. Lake Bohinj is bigger than Lake Bled and a little more natural, and maybe even more beautiful
Bridge over river by the lake
We did it! We survived the 12 hour Emerald river adventure!
After paying and saying goodbye to our new friends we walked through town to a pizza place for dinner. Along the way we stopped for this great photo opportunity
Working bee hive right in Bled with the traditional paintings
Our pizza had ham, asparagus and 2 other meats on it.
View walking back from dinner
Castle and island at night
Our new smaller room which we finally arrived at after 10 pm.
At this point we were quite ready for bed. After getting everything charged and ready for the next day we quickly fell asleep. Tomorrow is driving to Pula Croatia with lots of stops on the way
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