Hotel U Leva Levoca

... and much higher than the Polish part. <br><br>There is a special railway designed to bring the mountaineers to virtually any place they want, and its network connects all the High Tatra towns like Tatranska Lomnica, Smokovce or Strbske Pleso. What's more, there are a few cable cars that take you directly into the heart of Tatry without any effort, and amongst these places are peaks and passes like Lomnicky ...

Medzi Delavou a Hnilcom je to snad este krajsie. Rieka Hnilec, cyklocesta, luky a jednokolajka. Sem tam okolo nas prebehne jednovagonka. Je naozaj prijemne, mame stastie na pocasie. Dufajme, ze nam to takto vydrzi, dnes malo povodne cely den prsat .<br><br>Hnilec ma velmi prekvapil. Cakal som doslova nejaku cigansku dedinu no aj ked tu zjavne ziju, je tu cisto, klud. Atmosferu umocnuje krasne pocasie, je prijemne teplo. Spravili sme si tu malu prestavku a ...

... as high as, say, seeing the Terra Cotta Warriors, it certainly ranks pretty high on the most swell manmade things I&#8217;ve seen list. <br><br>We also visited Slovenský Raj, a massive national park near Levo&#269;a to do a bit of hiking. Though rain threatened all day, it never came. We walked from &#268;ingov to Hrabu&#353;ice (the former inside the park; the latter just a bit outside), a nice walk with great scenery (I took my favourite ...

... and an Australian. That first night at Oaza, we stayed up until around one playing poker with Donna and Rich. This version of poker was extrememly benevolent; bobby pins, matches, and an assortment of coins served as chips.<br><br>Oaza: I can't say enough about the loveliness of this lodging; the family was so nice. Also, it's 10 euros for a bed - not bad!

... the other nice places we have stayed) and not checking the room first. Won't make that mistake again although in a few months time we will probably look back at this and laugh and say what were we moaning at. Anyway, what we came here to see were the Octinska aragonite cave and the Domica cave and they were well worth the effort. They say a picture tells a thousand words so we will use our time to upload the best of what we took (which may ...

Z Tatier sme dnes isli priamo do Levoce. Lakala nas tu hlavne prehliadka soch Majstra Pavle z Levoce a tak prve miesto ktore sme navstivili bol kostol v ktorom sa nachadza oltar, ktory vyrobil. Fotit sa tam nedalo, takze foto zaznam mame len z okolia kostola a hlavneho namestia. Ktore je skvelo vynovene a este ...

Slovensky Raj (Slovak Paradise) is a huge national park just outside of Levoca. We were ready for some time outdoors and the parks hiking trails seemed just the ticket. We started the day with a visit to the Dobsinka Ice Caves. We didn't want to wait 2 hours for the english tour, so we went on the german tour. It was just recordings anyway, and I could follow most of it. Frankly, the ...

The guidebooks downplay Spissky Hrad, but the guidebooks are wrong. Levoca is in the midst of the Spiss region of Slovakia, and Hrad is Slovakian for castle, so in case the pictures didn't give it away, Spissky Hrad is a giant, ruined castle on a bluff. You can see it for miles, and see for miles from it. The land around the country is mostly farms, with a few small villages. We had beautiful, sunny ...

... to Master Paul, a 15th century master gothic artist, and possessive of a wondefully preserved old town square, lined with gothic and renaissance buildings and centrewd on the massive St James' church, an ornate town hall and a rather plain yet enormous Lutheran church. A shame there's only a very small Lutheran population there anymore. Even better, outside the town hall they had a 'cage of shame'. Something every town needs, I think ...

... I was, but their slopes are covered in either fields or forests, with the occasional rocky outcropping. Lots of pretty wildflowers grow along the train tracks; some I know, some I don't. I'd especially like to know what those little dark pink ones were. The rain stopped just as I arrived in Kosice and I found a place to stay without too much trouble. I'll say the same thing (so far) about the Slovaks as I said about the Czechs (and the Poles as well, but to a ...