Guided tours around Velika planina

We have prepared guided tours around Velika planina for larger and smaller organised groups, with the emphasis on learning about herdsmen’s tradition.

The traditional snack is available in one of the cottages, where you are served with sour milk, buckwheat mush or domestic mountain cheese. Together with the guide, you can visit the herdsmen’s settlement, Snow Mary chapel, Preskar museum and Veternica cave. In the afternoon hours, you can finish off your trip by visiting some of the sites of interest in Kamniška Bistrica.

Guided tour program

8.45 – Arrival and meeting with the guide at the bottom station of the cablecar
9.00 – 9.30 – Departure with cablecar and after with the chairlift to the mountain
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Guided tour (Shepherd’s settlement, Preskar museum, Mary Snow chapel, Vetrica cave)
12.00 – 13.00 – time for snack / lunch / free time
13:30 – Departure from Zeleni rob restaurant to the upper station of the cablecar
14.00 – Departure to the valley

To prepare an offer, write to sales@velikaplanina.si.

Additional offer that can be included in:

a guided tour with a local guide:
Tour of the valley of Kamniška Bistrica Lunch at the Zeleni rob inn
Demonstration of making trnič cheese
Shepherd’s lunch at Gradišek’s (only during the summer season, from mid-June to mid-September).
Herbal workshops

WORKSHOP ON GETTING TO KNOW MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR USES

From the highest point of the Velika planina (Gradišče, 1666 m), you will walk along the Velika planina with a herbalist and see and identify medicinal plants in nature. The focus of the workshop is on sustainable harvesting of plants and respect for nature. The workshop also includes instructions on drying and storing medicinal herbs and the benefits of using wild plants, herbs and other “weeds” from your doorstep. We will not collect plants, but we will look at them and learn which ones are medicinal and how to use them. In addition to the basic 2-hour workshop, it is possible to add a workshop showing the preparation of various medicinal preparations – water extracts, syrups, whole herbs, powdered herbs, tinctures, macerates, herbal vinegars and vaporization of dry herbs.

CHEESE TRNIČ MAKING PRESENTATION

Trniči are a type of hard cheese with a characteristic pear shape, which are made in the area of Velika, Mala and Gojška planina in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps. They are made of cottage cheese, cream and salt and decorated with special ornaments, which are embossed with relief-carved wooden planks or sticks, the so-called i. fonts. Trnič is used in the daily diet, often as an addition to dishes.

LUNCH IN ZELENI ROB INN

Gostilna Zeleni rob is the only inn on Velika Planina. The terrace offers a wonderful view of the surrounding hills and the Ljubljana basin. They offer home-made dishes such as stews, sausage with sauerkraut and buckwheat spoonbread, goulash and excellent sweet cottage cheese dumplings. We have prepared special menus for groups.

SHEPHERD’S MEAL

In the shepherd’s village you will get excellent sour milk and buckwheat spoonbread, homemade cheese and crispy homemade bread! Reservations are required for larger groups.

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