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Everything You Need to Know If You Want to Go Hiking around the Slovenian Mountains
Owing to their beauty, the Julian Alps, the Kamnik- Savinja Alps and the Karavanke mountain range are without doubt some of Slovenia’s most outstanding Slovenian natural marvels. Although Slovenian mountains may not be part of a typical tourist itinerary of visitors to Slovenia, they have in recent years been attracting increasingly high numbers of foreign visitors. The beautiful world of mountains is less than an hour’s drive from Ljubljana, which makes the mountain trails a popular destination for Union Hotels’ visitors too. For this reason, we have prepared some useful tips to make your trips to the Slovenian mountaintops perfectly carefree.
10 Reasons for Visiting Planica and Staying at Union Hotels
The ski-flying festival in Planica is a world-famous event. Even since the beginnings of ski flying in the 1930s, Planica has been attracting large numbers of fans of this winter sport, and ever since Planica became a Ski Jumping World Cup venue, it has been a mecca for sports lovers who like cheering on their favourite athletes. At Union Hotels, we have come up with ten reasons for combining a visit to the world-famous ski-flying event in Planica with a visit to our hotels in the centre of Ljubljana.
5 Reasons for Visiting Ljubljana in February
February is not exactly a month when cities abound with holidaymakers, but we have nevertheless thought of some good reasons for visiting Ljubljana during the month of love and winter wonderland.
A Winter Idyll on the Sunny Side of the Alps
Slovenia, a small country on the sunny side of the Alps, has always been known for its idyllic winter tourism. And although this year’s ski season has not even properly started yet, we have decided to look into Slovenia’s best winter treasures and make a list of the most imaginative winter adventures.
What Slovenians Are Proud of When It Comes to Winter
Although even the best among the Slovenian winter sports athletes will gladly agree that this year’s winter is strikingly different from the previous ones, we have nevertheless taken a closer look at Slovenia’s greatest winter sports achievements. In fact, it was Jernej Damjan, one of Slovenia’s top ski jumpers, who is first on our list alongside other ski jumping team members, who pointed out that the cold part of this year seems a bit sad and gloomy.