Prof. Toman's Field Garden
Prof. Miha Toman has also the traditional Slovenian field garden, set amid pastures, woods and fields of his home village. It is thriving with a variety of vegetables around the year, young fruit trees and colourful flower-rich bushes swarming with hardworking Slovenian - better known as Carniolan - bees. The garden is a joy to behold at any time of the year, even during winter when it rests beneath a thick soft blanket of snow, gathering energies for a new year of growth. more...
Jože Prezelj, didgeridoo maker
Jože Prezelj first heard of the didgeridoo, the sonorous music instrument of the Australian Aboriginals, at a conference in Peru. He met a German who taught him to play in four months and began to play seriously when he lost his voice.- He met Aborigianal players for the first time in Ljubljana in 2003. He attends didgeridoo concerts in Switzerland, Austria and USA.
Jože Prezelj teaches playing and making didgeridoos. In Slovenia he often appears at the concerts, openings and TV shows. more...
The magic hillside garden of Miha Toman
Prof. dr. Mihael Toman lives in his centuries old family home, which has been beautifully renovated during the last few years. He has great interest in traditional buildings. But his particular love and occupation is his hillside garden, which he built over several years and which continues to be his chief hobby and after work-hours occupation. It has been shown on television and in a magazine on beautiful gardens of Slovenia. - The place is magic, every plant and tree in it a reflection of love for all plant life. more...
The Cow Festival 2007
The Cow Festival/Kravji bal has a long tradition, stemming from the custom of driving cows to the mountain pastures in spring and summer, where they eat the best mountain grass. They are milked by the shepherds, who send milk, butter and cheese regularly to the homestead in the valley. The return of the herd is an occasion for celebration, which has become a popular festival. more...
Pivka Valley
Pivka Valley is part of Slovenian kras, a unique limestone geological area, marked by underground rivers, intermittent lakes and rivers, and numerous caves. Postojna Cave and Škocjan Cave are the largest and most accessible, attracting an unending stream of visitors. Pivka river emerges in Zagorje, flows partly on the surface, partly underground along the Pivka Valley, depending on the season and the rainfall, disappears underground into Postojna cave system, to reappear as Unica in the Planinsko polje, there continuing its performance as vanishing river and occasionally as a lake.
Pivka valley and Planinsko polje are well worth a visit. This is a karst region of unspoilt beauty and unique natural phenomena. more...
Planinsko Polje
Planinsko polje is a typical karstic polje, a natural grassland, on which forest growth has been prevented due to the intermittent flooding.It is 6km long and up to 3.5km wide, with river Unica meandering over its length. Pastureland in summer, the plain becomes a lake in the wet season. There is nothing to compare the beauty and magic of a landscape that becomes a lake overnight. more...
Ljubljansko Barje
Sasha Ceferin invites you to visit the unique Ljubljansko Barje/Marshes to the south of Ljubljana and enjoy the serene beauty and mystery of the area, with its unique flowering plants, birds and insects, and the ancient history of the lake dwellers and the 5000 year old wooden wheel.
You are invited to share your own visual experiences of Slovenia by contributing an album for publication in the Slovenian Photolog. more...
Rajko Šolar - Slovenian blacksmith
He comes from a great and long tradition of ironcraftsmen in Slovenia. At home, in Kamna gorica near Kropa, the centre of the smithscraft, he is a son of man who made products like nails and tools from glowing iron ore, and could make more than a thousand a day.
Rajko nowadays makes beautiful and complex ironwork objects in his workshop, such as gates, fences, lamps, window ironwork, traditional door knockers and door handles, chandeliers, candle holders appropriate for the resurgent traditional house design. more...
Cerkniško jezero - Autumn
The lake of Cerknica has perplexed people since ancient times. The Greek historian Strabo (63BC-23AD) called it Lucus Lugeus -the Mourning Lake. It was not until Valvasor explained how the water system worked in the 17th century that this periodic or intermittent lake was fully understood. For his efforts Valvasor was made a member of the Royal Society in London in 1697. - Cerknica is a polje above a collapsed Karst cavern full of sinkholes, potholes, syphons and underground tunnels, that can stay dry for much of the year and then flood. The surface area of the lake can reach almost 40sq km.
It is a popular recreational area for fishing, windsurfing, swimming and ice skating in winter. more...
Pomurje with Evald Flisar
Evald Flisar was born in the furthest northeast region of Slovenia - Pomurje. The journey in this rather less well known part of the country is a revelation. more...
Driving through Dolenjska
Come for a drive with Sasha Ceferin through the gentle landscape of Dolenjska to the south of Ljubljana, enjoy the beautiful emerald flow of river Krka,the medieval Grad Otočec, and the historical monastery Kostanjevica with its stunning forma viva sculptures.
Send us your images and share with us your own visual experiences. more...
Mašun - Beech Forest
Mašun is a beech forest hamlet on the Snežnik plateau, offering a beautiful shadowy ramble in crisp mountain air, and an educational signed pathway, with informative texts on the native plants, animals and birds. Snežnik (the snowy mountain)is at 1796m the highest non-alpine mountain of Slovenia. more...
Toman Garden in Spring
The full beauty of the hillside garden is revealed in spring, when its construction of pathways, stairways and terraces is revealed, while the first blossoms of spring begin to fill the spaces with their colours and shapes. This is the early spring,and garden is already full of promise of blossoming and fruiting to come as greadually spring turns into summer and autumn. more...
Kostel: Mirtoviški potok
The Mirtoviški potok is one of the many streams winding their ways amnog the hills and valleys towards the mighty river Kolpa which now marks the divide between the Slovenian and Croatian territory- One can walk to the source of the lively stream along a narrow path, always accompanied by the sound of running water, bird song and an abundance of field flowers,many of them herbs sought for their beneficial properties.The walk, with many stops for taking photos of breathtaking scenery, takes about an hour, and is wonderfully refreshing-
It is only one of the many such walks along streams in the Kostel region. more...
Lipizzaner of Lipica
Lipizzaners are the world famous horse breed of the Lipica Stud Farm. Named after the Slovenian village Lipica, their history began 400 years ago, when stallions of the Andalusian, Barb and Berber breeds from the Riding School in Spain were brought to Lipica. It was in the 19th century that the six stud lines, among them the Arabian line were founded with the six stallions, which established the best qualities for which the Lipizzaner became known and are valued to present time: stamina, grace, good looks, intelligence, longevity, good nature and a talent for dancing. more...
Kostel, a special corner of Slovenia
Kostel is the smallest municipality of the Republic of Slovenia, tucked inside the U turn of the river Kolpa in the south-west of the country, on the border with Croatia.Its size is 57 sq km, it has 54 villages, with 700 permanent mostly aged inhabitants. At the end of the 19th century there were 3000 inhabitants. It is a karst landscape with high rocky mountain ridges, and running waters. It had not supported its inhabitants in the past, so they sought other sources of income elsewhere. Many earned their living as peddlars. The magnificent 13th century castle Kostel is the second largest in Slovenia, playing a vital role during the period of Turkish incursions to Slovenian lands.
Today the land is beautiful, full of forests, running waters, caves, narrow river valleys, with walks. There is rafting and fishing on the river Kolpa, and a high quality cheese made of sheep milk is produced in the area. more...
