The last proper stop on our whistle-stop tour of Slovenia has been the Bohinj area. It’s centred around Bohinj lake, and is in the Julian Alps – some proper mountains at last! It’s been a couple of days hiking to waterfalls (see the photo of Savica below), gorges, taking cable cars up to 2000m peaks and generally having mountain-based fun. The highest mountain in Slovenia, Triglav, is visible from here, and at the other end of the scale there’s tiny little gorges formed by mountain streams, like the one at Mostnica (well worth a visit, but make sure you leave about three hours for the round trip, and definitely make sure you pay for enough time at the car park in Stara Fuzina!).

There’s all sorts of extreme-sports stuff to do here, and it seems like a great place to come back to. Our hotel was at the quieter, west end of the lake, situated at the end of the valley and only a couple of hundred metres from the valley sides and headwall. It’s just an amazing place to be in, and the mist in the valley early in the morning is incredible. It doesn’t clear until about 9am, so you can even be a lazy photographer and still catch the best of it after a lie-in!

The train journey from Bled-Jezero to Nova Gorica was fantastic too – you follow narrow river gorges all the way, through little tunnels and over massive bridges. We stayed one night in Gorizia, and have just got back to the UK – knackered, but a great trip!