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Category Archives: HIGH TATRAS
Zamkovského Chata
It was summer, but we were still rubbing our hands together to keep the circulation going whenever we had to remove our gloves to study the map. A cold wind was blowing belated flurries of snow down from 2500m peaks … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation in the Wilderness, HIGH TATRAS, Hikes
Tagged high tatras, high tatras accommodation, high tatras hikes, high tatras mountain house, hrebienok, hrebienok chair lift, skalnate pleso, skalnate pleso cable car, stefan zamkovsky, tatranska bora, tatranska magistrala, teryho chata, zamkovskeho chata, zelene pleso
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Lake on the Edge of the World: Skalnaté Pleso
It’s a collision of worlds, Skalnaté Pleso. The cut-off point between the lower slopes of the High Tatras mankind have succeeded in taming to some extent and the wild peaks rearing above that mankind (let’s hope) never will tame. Cowering just … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation in the Wilderness, HIGH TATRAS, Hikes
Tagged chata pri zelenom plese, gerlachovsky stit, high tatras, highest mountain in slovakia, hikes, lomnicky stit, lomnicky stit cable car, observatory, podbanske slovakia, pribylina, pribylina slovakia, skalnata chata, skalnate pleso, skalnate pleso cable car, slovakia poland, start cable car, stary smokovec, strbske pleso, tatranska lomnica, tatranska lomnica cable car, tatranska magistrala, tatras electric railway, wilderness accommodation, zamkovskeho chata, zdiar, zelene pleso
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Ice Walking
A nice wintery video for a cold, crisp day… two hikers walking on Slovakia’s clean mountain ice… plenty of frozen lakes up in the High Tatras, too, so why not take the winter-only opportunity to see them from a different … Continue reading
Posted in HIGH TATRAS, Hikes, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged high tatras, slovakia hiking
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How to Get Between Poprad, Ždiar and Zakopane in Poland
It’s a topic that’s thrashed out on travel forums again and again, because the online info is always conspicuously lacking in some of the necessary detail: how to take the beguilingly scenic trip across the east of the High Tatras … Continue reading
Posted in Getting To/Around Slovakia, HIGH TATRAS
Tagged bachledova, ginger monkey hostel, high tatras, high tatras accommodation, lysa polona, Poprad, poprad bus, poprad to poland, poprad to zakopane, slovakia poland, tatranska javorina, tatranska lomnica, tatras electric railway, zakopane, zakopane bus, zdiar
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Our Centenary Post: (Poetical) Thoughts on Slovakia, 2000 to the Present
We all spend a lot of time on the outside looking in. Little by little, Englishmaninslovakia is getting to know what it’s like to be on the inside of Slovakia looking out. And for a foreigner, that’s no easy task. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Food & Drink, HIGH TATRAS, Slovakia (General)
Tagged cachtice, dylan, european union, hlavne namestie, krivan, myava, orava, prasna basta, slivovica, slovakia, Slovakia poems, stara tura, trencin, trencin castle
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Horský Hotel Popradské Pleso
For a good six months of the year, the snow piles so high against the timber walls of Horský Hotel Popradské Pleso that it rather resembles a giant igloo than a mountain lodge. Abutting the rugged lakeshore of Popradské Pleso, this hotel … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation in the Wilderness, HIGH TATRAS, Hikes
Tagged goulash, gulas, high tatras, high tatras accommodation, high tatras hikes, high tatras mountain house, horsky hotel popradske pleso, hotel patria, popradske pleso, slovakia tatranska magistrala, strbske pleso, tatranska magistrala, tatras electric railway, wilderness accommodation
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London to Poprad Flights Again From October 2014
A few years ago, the now-defunct SkyEurope airline offered the incredibly useful connection between London and the High Tatras of Slovakia which are one of the country’s main tourist attractions. Now, thanks to Wizz Air, that flight is back. Starting … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation - Guesthouses, Accommodation in the Wilderness, Getting To/Around Slovakia, HIGH TATRAS, Hikes, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged cheap flights to Slovakia, high tatras accommodation, high tatras mountain house, london luton, london luton to poprad tatry, Poprad, poprad guesthouses, poprad tatry, skyeurope, tatras electric railway, wizz air
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Štrbské Pleso
Štrbské Pleso, probably Slovakia’s most famous lake and certainly the number one tourist destination in the High Tatras, may not seem the most likely choice for Englishmaninslovakia.com to write about – except that, somewhat surprisingly, it’s not actually been covered … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation - Hotels, Accommodation in the Wilderness, Food & Drink - Restaurants, HIGH TATRAS, Hikes, History, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged grandhotel kempinski high tatras, high tatras, high tatras accommodation, high tatras hotels, horsky hotel popradske pleso, hotel patria, hotel solisko, krivan slovakia, popradske pleso, slovakia tatranska magistrala, strba, strbske pleso, strbske pleso ski centre, tatranska magistrala, Tatras mountains, tatras railway
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Koliba Patria: Mountain Lakeshore Dining
Štrbské Pleso is a place people end up at. Its beauty is much touted in Slovakia (and it even makes a point of stating, on the banks of this lake ensconced beneath the High Tatras peaks, about how it got … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation - Hotels, Food & Drink - Restaurants, HIGH TATRAS, Other Outdoorsy Stuff (Skiing etc)
Tagged bryndza, bryndzove halusky, grandhotel kempinski high tatras, halusky, high tatras, hotel patria, koliba patria, seven wonders of nature, strbske pleso, tatranska magistrala, tatransky cai, tatras electric railway
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Tatranská Magistrala: the Kit List
There is a running joke in Slovakia about the Czechs. Lots of Czechs come to the Tatras mountains each year. Of all visiting nations, the Czechs are apparently the most Gung-ho when it comes to forging off alone in the … Continue reading
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