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Slovenia: Dovžanova soteska

Petr, Nada and me woke up into working Friday. Since we can all work from home, we arranged the living room into one office for three different companies. After lunch, we decided to go out and visit Dovžanova soteska - Dovžan Gorge. We made a nice roundtrip and since it was the end of the working week, we visited two bars on our way home.

Office.

Photojournalist at work - check his work at https://www.shelomovskiy.com/.

Above the narrowest section of the gorge that was protected as a natural monument in 1988 due to its status as a unique site of plant and animal fossils in rocks from the Paleozoic.

 

The roundtrip required a little bit of climbing on a section called Bence path, named after local alpinist.

It rained lately, so the Tržiška Bistrica rivers was a bit wilder than usual.

 

Should we turn around or continue bare foot? We voted and it was 2:1 to continue.

 

Washing the feet.

The gorge is a journey through time. Although it is older than the dinosaurs, no dinosaur ever trod here. They did, however, swim: 300 million years ago this place was the site of a tropical sea, teeming with marine animals. Today in the walls of the gorge we can see their fossilized remains in abundance, including some that are found nowhere else in the world.

Obviously it was a good decision to continue bare foot, as everybody was happy.

 

Out of troubles back to the path.

The Tržič Bistrica is 27 kilometres long river.

 

In 1895, Baron Born built a road with a 100 meters long tunnel from Tržič to Jelendol. The Born tunnel is drilled through layers of black limestone.

It was built in only 3 months and a half, from 16. May till 1. September - Garmin Connect.

  

We had dinner twice.

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