Smokovec, Slovakia Travel Blogs

Where They Have A Town Called 'Horny Smokovec'..
Jun 11, 2006 (14 photos)

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
May 22, 2007

... 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 brief ...

Slovakia, Day 12 - 14
May 1, 2009

... 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
Aug 3, 2005

... 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 ...

Odds and Ends
Aug 5, 2005

... 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 later ...

Slovakia!
Sep 30, 2005 (6 photos)

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 ...

Debbie Downer Goes for a Hike
Sep 20, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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!
Feb 26, 2008 (102 photos)

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 ...

Playing in the High Tatras
May 23, 2007 (17 photos)

... 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 ...

Stary Smokovec, High Tatras
Sep 25, 2006

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Hrebienok
Dec 21, 2008 (6 photos)

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Tantrum of the Tatras - Almost home
Jul 18, 2009 (116 photos)

... fir 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, and a ten minutes after a mighty battle with a 4 day bout of constipation, Jon and I went to catch up ...

High Tatras National Park - Slovakia/Poland Border
Aug 15, 2007 (19 photos)

 

Onwards along the Tatranska Magistrala
Sep 11, 2008 (6 photos)

(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
Jul 30, 2007

... 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! Phill