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Where They Have A Town Called 'Horny Smokovec'..
This is a top pick! Another day another country. Slovakia this time. When we were planning this trip we had to decide between Czech Republic or Slovakia. It was a hard decision for us to make as Prague is arguably the prettiest city on earth and Slovakia is renowned for ...
Mountains and Caves
With a bad first impression of Poprad as we pulled into the station, we consulted the "bible" which advised to stay in Stary Smokovec, a village 30min away by electric train in the hills. Thank you Lonely Planet as it was lonely. Went for a ...
Slovakia, Day 12 - 14
... a global pandemic is on the verge of breaking out. As we understand there are no cases as yet in Slovakia but a Japanese tourist in Stary Smokovec was taking no chances and had his face mask on! Shelved our plans for a second walk the next day ...
More Mountains
... before). I took the train from Budapest to Poprad, then a train that goes up into the mountains to a town called Stary Smokovec. I'm actually in a town a 3 min walk down the road called Horny Smokovec. The mountain range is the Tatras, and is part of ...
Rocks Don't Rock
... apparatchik who owned a quarry somewhere, and he needed to keep the political prisoners busy. The stones were probably shipped to Slovakia from the Urals. Luckily, I didn't have any ankle or knee problems, but it still made the trail more difficult than ...
Odds and Ends
... if you have change or a smaller bill. Sometimes ( i started noticing this in sicily but it just happend to me here in slovakia) if you dont have the change they will just forget about it. either they don't care, will somehow make up the difference ...
Debbie Downer Goes for a Hike
... Poprad, a transportation hub that didn't have much attraction. We stayed there one night and caught the morning train to Stary Smokovec, a small developing resort town at the base of the High Tatras. The area between Poprad and Stary Smokovec had been ...
The High Tatras!
The train ride to Stary Smokovec was beautiful, out from the rolling hills of Slovakia into the foothills of the Tatras, it made my lunch of bread and peanut butter that much more enjoyable. Stary Smokovec is a town at the base of the mountain - much of a ...
Slovakia!
Took a while and a few trains to get up into the High Tatras mountain range on the border of Slovakia and Poland, and we stayed in a ski resort type place where we planned a few walks, helped by a lovely Slovakian woman on the train. We were rained out ...
Playing in the High Tatras
... mountain chata for less than 15 a night!! There is a cable car that goes up the side of the mountain from Stary Smokovec to Hrebienok. Hrebienok is a small ski resort in the winter and the starting point of some hikes in the summer. A quick walk to the ...
The High Tantric Mountains
... Mountains are a sort of mini-Alps, snow-capped jagged mountains, beautiful ultramarine mountain lakes and crashing waterfalls traversing Slovakia and Poland. However, in 2004, a massive windstorm uprooted trees and turned a once-dense pine forest into ...
Tantrum of the Tatras
... foliage. The purple flowers that sprung up in its stead and fern leaves made it a depressing sight. We got to Stary Smokovec in 30 minutes which was a little town about 300 meters up from Novy, and a ten minutes toilet break later, Jon and I ...
The Tatras Mountains
... visit. On the other hand prices have gone down too. Still good enough for me. The next day Yury, the minibus driver from Novy Smokovec, was waiting for us at 11am. He is also the owner of an excellent Slovakian specialities restaurant in Novy. He drove us ...
Several hundred kilograms of baker's goods
... longer, there were advertized a wide range of museums that we did not visit, including the Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia, the Small Carpathian Museum, and the Open-air Museum of Beekeeping.) Unlike the Czechs, the Slovaks are now using ...
Apparently it is a very popular hike
... development...today we have scored a hat trick of rain free days!! Our summer holiday is finally here!! Anyway, back to Slovakia and the beautiful Tatra mountains. Of course our plan was to do a hike up into the mountains, and hike we ...
Onwards along the Tatranska Magistrala
(18.61 km; 8 hrs 19 min; 957m ascent; 1036m descent) We were up at the usual time for our 7 am breakfast this morning. We had adopted the technique of folding a pillow in half and holding it against the ear to muffle the sound of snoring, and that ...
Into the Tatry
... be a laugh especially when the beer costs 20p a bottle...that§s 12 per cent beer too... could be an interesting night!!! Right I better go. In Stary Smokovec just a little higher in the mountains as I write this, but getting hungry! Tchau! ...
From intensive hike to intensive conversation
Totay was a very good day because I got to hike the Tatras Mountainsgy. There were two options for hiking: the intensive hike with Ken where we would hike to the top of the Tatras and back down (a 7 hour journey), the easy hike with Jiri (our field ...
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