Check into your hotel and meet your other travel companions. Free time to yourself.

After a delicious breakfast we will start our road trip to lake Bohinj. Our first stop is Vintgar Gorge. There we will meander along a raised platform bolted to the side of the gorge, affording wonderful views of an ancient eco system of pristine waters and luminous moss.

From the gorge we head to the famed Lake Bled where we will visit the church via boat and take lunch overlooking this idyllic watery wonder.

From Bled we continue for another 30 minutes to lake Bohinj, our home for the next 5 days. (B,D)

A short drive up onto the Pokljuka Plateau brings us to the trailhead, deep in hushed forests of spruce that feel almost Nordic. From here we set our sights on Debela Peč, the “thick rock”, easternmost of all the Julian Alps’ two-thousanders.

The trail climbs gently at first, out of the forest and onto open alpine pastures where cowbells ring and old herders’ huts sit weathered and silver in the sun. Above the pastures the path steepens across grassy slopes to the summit, where the ground simply stops: the north face drops almost vertically into the Krma Valley, and across the void rises the mighty wall of Triglav itself. Turn around and the view runs east over Bled to the Karavanke on the Austrian border.

From the summit ridge, legs willing, we detour to neighbouring Brda, a second two-thousander just six metres shy of its twin, for a new angle on the same staggering panorama. Two summits before lunch is a fine way to earn a strudel.

And earn it we do, dropping down to Zvanova Koča for a long, lazy lunch on the hut’s terrace, with hearty mountain fare and a cold Laško in hand. Then it’s an easy wander back through the pastures and forest to meet our transfer.

Back at Hotel Bohinj, the outdoor whirlpool and sauna are calling. You’ve earned both. (B,D)

After a hearty breakfast of local produce, we take the Vogel Cable Car to the Vogel Ridgeline. From the terminus at the top, we have incredible views over the Julian Alps including the summit of Triglav itself.

We then set off with our guide to Sija summit approximately 1850 meters high. The trail meanders through high altitude meadows before thrusting itself skyward toward Vratca Saddle. From the saddle one can see all the way down to the Adriatic and the Gulf of Trieste.

From the saddle we continue along the ridge to Sija summit before looping back around for lunch at Orlove Glave.

Total walking time is about 7 hours. (B,D)

Today we will do something completely different, to experience the Julian Alps from river level, literally.

We will transfer to the Soca River and whitewater raft the beautiful Soca River in an 8 person inflatable raft, with our well trained and professional river guide.

We will start at the Boka waterfall (or nearby Srpenica village) and travel all the way to the village Trnovo ob Soči.

The journey down river takes about 1.5 hours and we cover a distance of between 7 and 10kms. (B,D)

No need to rush this morning after a couple of big hiking days. We bid farewell to Bohinj and set out east for the remote Logar Valley, a glacial sanctuary tucked against the Austrian border, where the road simply ends beneath a ring of limestone peaks.

We arrive at Hotel Plesnik in time for lunch, a first taste of the valley’s mountain farm produce with that view of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps filling the windows.

Afterwards we lace up and walk straight out the hotel door, heading up the valley floor through wildflower meadows and larch and spruce forest, the great rock walls closing in on either side. At the head of the valley we reach Rinka Waterfall, where the Savinja River is born, spilling down a sheer cliff in a long white veil. Legend has it that when the sun catches its spray just right, you may glimpse the beautiful Rinka fairy herself.

We stroll back down the valley to Hotel Plesnik with the late light warming the peaks, just in time for a sauna or a dip in the natural spa pool before dinner. (B,L,D)

Today the valley offers two very different ways to explore, and the choice is yours. Both run on the same day, so pick the one that calls to you.

Option 1: E-bike the Solčava Panoramic Road. 40km. From the door of Hotel Plesnik we saddle up on electric mountain bikes and climb effortlessly onto the Panoramic Road, a high balcony route above the Logar, Robanov Kot and Matkov Kot valleys. The e-bikes do the heavy lifting on the hills, leaving you free to take in the view: a wall of Kamnik-Savinja peaks on one side, hay meadows and centuries-old mountain farms on the other. Along the way we follow shepherds’ paths and folklore trails, pause at viewpoints that stop you in your tracks, and perhaps call in at a farmhouse for home-made cheese, cured meats or a nip of schnapps. It’s a day of big views for relatively little effort.

Option 2: Hike Raduha (2,062m). For those who want to earn their summit, Raduha is the proud limestone sentinel of the eastern Kamnik-Savinja Alps. The trail winds up through beech and spruce forest and out onto high alpine pastures before the final rocky push to the top. From the summit, the panorama sweeps across the Logar Valley and its jagged neighbours to the Karavanke and, on a clear day, deep into Austria. It’s a big day in the mountains for our keenest walkers.

Whichever you choose, the afternoon ends back at Hotel Plesnik, where the spa, the natural pool and a glass of something local are waiting. (B,D)

Our last big day in the mountains, and one of the best. We step out from Hotel Plesnik and into the cool of the larch and spruce forest, the trail climbing steadily as the valley floor drops away beneath us. Every so often the trees part to give us a glimpse of the limestone walls we have been admiring from the hotel windows, now at eye level and drawing closer.

Mid-morning brings us to Koča na Klemenči jami, a classic Slovenian mountain hut perched high above the valley, where ridgelines fan out in every direction in a way that will have you swearing you have wandered into the Dolomites. It would be rude not to stop. A cappuccino, and perhaps a slice of strudel or the hut’s famous cheesecake. Be warned, the cheesecake is enormous, and sharing is entirely acceptable.

Fortified, we push on for another hour or so to Strelovec, the “Place of the Archer”, a ridge that divides two of Slovenia’s most beautiful valleys. On one side Robanov Kot falls away in a quilt of meadows and old farmsteads. On the other lies the Logar Valley, our home for these last few days, with the thin white thread of Rinka Waterfall at its head. Here we unpack a picnic lunch and take our time, because views like this deserve it.

Then it’s a long, unhurried descent past the Klemenči hut and back through the forest to Hotel Plesnik, with the spa, the pool and a farewell dinner in the valley to round off the day. (B,L,D)

After breakfast we take a private transfer back to Ljubljana. In the afternoon, we will head out for a 2.5 hour town tour, culminating in a group dinner as a farewell to our brilliant luxcation in Slovenia. (B,D)

Today we all depart, bidding farewell to our wonderful Slovenia journey. (B)

Note: For those that wish to stay extra nights in Ljubljana we can arrange this.