Highlights of the trip

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Strbske Pleso - ski, tourist, and health resort next to a glacial mountain lake in the High Tatras

Strbske Pleso village comprises several hotels and residential buildings. With extensive parking facilities and a stop on the Tatra trolley and rack railway, it is a starting point for popular hikes, including Krivan and Rysy peaks.

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Popradske pleso - mountain lake in Mengusovska valley

Popradske pleso is the 4th largest lake in the High Tatras, within one hour walk from Strbske Pleso tourist resort. Next to the lake is Majlathova hut - the starting point for hikes to the majestic rocky peaks.

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Hut by Green Lake - situated in picturesque alpine scenery all around

The hut lies on the eastern bank of the mountain lake Zelene pleso (Green Lake) in 1,551 m EASL. Zelene pleso hut with its surroundings is appreciated by amateurs and professional photographers a lot.

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Velke Biele Pleso - Great White Lake

1,615 m EASL, easily accessible from the hut by Green Lake by red marked trail. It is also a crossroad of several frequent tourist trails.

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Spis castle UNESCO World Heritage - partly restored medieval castle

The Spis Castle in eastern Slovakia is one of the largest castles in Central Europe. Slovak National Museum presents various collections on its premises.

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The Roman-Catholic St James church in Levoca - main altar is the tallest of its kind in the world

The Late Gothic wooden main altar of St James is 18.6 m tall, made of lime wood in 1507-1517 by Master Pavol of Levoca.

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Velicka valley - notable for Velicke lake and adjacent waterfall

Velicka valley has five mountain lakes and Sliezsky Dom mountain hotel to offer. It can be walked by green marked tourist trail.

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Sliezsky Dom - mountain hotel next to Velicke lake

The mountain hotel (1,670 m EASL) lies under the majestic mountain range dominated by the Gerlach peak (2,655 m EASL), the highest mountain in Slovakia.

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Plesnivec hut - the only inhabited object in the Belianske Tatra Mountains

A former 18th-century shed (1,290 m EASL) of a man from Austria trying to find gold there. After the reconstruction in 1938, it obtained its current design.