On Thursday, we made the trek up to Velika Planina to spend
the night with the cows. Our good
friends, Rok and Petra, had rented a herdsman hut with a wood-fired hot tub for
the week and invited us to visit.
It’s a bit of an adventure getting there: you need to take a tram to get most of the
way up the mountain, and then an ancient ski lift to get to the top. And there isn’t much there once you’re up: a
single restaurant, a few tourist huts, the herders’ village, a small church,
and cows (and cow piles, which far out-populate everything else).
We hiked around, bought fresh milk and cheese from the
herders, picked wild strawberries, and, of course, enjoyed the hot tub. Rosetta, Celia, and Sy made great friends
with Rok and Petra’s daughter and son, Kaja and Bine (Bine even started calling
Rosetta “Mommy”).
It is absolutely beautiful there, and we’d highly recommend
it. Especially if you’re a cow.
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