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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Skok waterfall - a glacial waterfall falling from a rocky point

Situated in Mlynicka valley, an approximately 10 m high waterfall is created by Mlynica brook.

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Ostrva - inconspicuous but very widely visited Tatra peak

Ostrva peak (1,926 m EASL) is accessible from the hiking trails or steep walls utilized by rock climbers.

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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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Hrebienok - a small tourist and ski resort in the Tatra Mountains

Hrebienok resort (1,285 m EASL) is the starting point for hikes to Small Cold Valley, Great Cold Valley, and Slavkovsky Peak. Downhill ski trail belongs to the resort and continues to Stary Smokovec village. A funicular drives between Hrebienok and Stary Smokovec during the whole tourist and skiing season.

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Zamkovsky hut - on a tourist trail between Hrebienok resort and Skalnate Lake

1,475 m EASL, founded by climber and mountain guide Stefan Zamkovsky in 1942 - 1943. Today, supplies are still transported traditionally to the chalet by carriers.

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Giant Waterfall - in the estuary of Small Cold Valley in the High Tatras

Giant Waterfall (Obrovsky Vodopad) is about 15 m high and frows from Small Cold Creek at 1,355 m EASL. The waterfall is of tectonic origin.

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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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Spisska Kapitula UNESCO World Heritage - one of the most interesting Romanesque monuments in Slovakia

The town consists of the Cathedral of St Martin, a former monastery, and a single street. A town wall encloses all of the medieval constructions.

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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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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.