There is a wooden path built along one side of the Bled Lake.
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The famous Lake Bled Island.
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Reflection in the lake.
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Shores of an inland lake in Morocco.
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An inland lake in Morocco.
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Later, I went to the nearby Lake Cerknica to see the sunset and take a couple of pictures.
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Dry bottom of the lake and Mt. Slivnica in the background.
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Then we stopped at Lake Jasna near Kranjska Gora.
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View from the castle café over the lake.
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Later we went for a walk along the lake shore.
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Perched atop the cliff, Bled castle looms above the lake.
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Panoramic view of Lake Jasna.
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Lake shore.
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Snowy lake shore.
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Lake Cerknica.
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Lake Cerknica.
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Lake Cerknica.
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Lake Cerknica.
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Lake Cerknica.
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Lake and fog.
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Lake shore.
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Lake Bled with the island and mist
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Lake Bled with the island and mist
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Lake Bled and ducks
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Lake Bohinj is especially magical in the early morning.
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Panorama of the misty Lake Bohinj.
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Panorama of the misty Lake Bohinj.
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Panorama of the misty Lake Bohinj.
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Lake Jasna at Kranjska Gora.
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Lake Jasna at Kranjska Gora.
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Backlit tree at Lake Jasna.
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Ducks at Lake Jasna.
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The lake is dark green.
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Ducks at Lake Jasna.
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A quick descent to the Pogacnikov dom proved to be long and hot. But the views were great. This is the upper lake of the three (Zgornje Krisko jezero).
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Reflection in the middle lake (Srednje Krisko jezero).
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After a two-hour ascend from Lake Bohinj we arrived at the Komna hut at 1520 meters above sea level. We just caught the last sun rays washing over the surrounding mountains.
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The night was short. We got up at 4.30 to start the hike early, but before we set off, the view over Lake Bohinj enveloped in fog left us with our mouths open.
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From the pass we started descending towards the Krn Lake.
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It only got worse as we were nearing the lake. Luckily we had lots of paper tissues with us.
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Krn Lake (1391 meters above sea level) in all its glory. There is Mt. Krn (2244 meters above sea level) in the background.
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More flowers. Any way you look at the lake and the mountains, it's spectacular.
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Another reflection at Krn Lake.
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It's fantastic to just lie on the lakeshore, but swimming is not recommended.
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Lake Krn one more time.
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We said good-bye to the Krn Lake and headed back the way we came, towards the Vratca pass.
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More flowers, more grass. Incidentally, we weren't the only ones with the allergy. Quite a few people at the lake were sneezing too.
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From here you can see directly to the Triglav Lakes Valley with Mt. Triglav itself in the bakground.
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The meadows at Dolniki, looking towards the Triglav Lakes Valley.
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After a large bowl of jota (potato-sauerkraut-beans-sausage casserole) and beer we looked at Lake Bohinj for the last time before heading back to the valley. It was a long, but fantastic day!
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The area is full of small lakes that were now almost frozen.
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A couple of small lakes.
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A small lake.
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The other lake.
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I was sitting on the left-hand side in the back, so in order to take photos from the right-hand side window I had to simply point the camera blindly and press the shutter. I managed to catch Lake Bled. :)
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Lake Bled.
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Lake Bohinj.
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Lake Bohinj against the sun was already behind us.
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Lake Črnava in Preddvor
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Krn and Krn Lake.
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Planina Javornik.
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Lake Črnava in Preddvor
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Lake Črnava in Preddvor
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Lake Črnava in Preddvor
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We made a couple of circles over Lake Bled.
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Lake Bled.
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Lake Bled and castle.
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Lake Črnava in Preddvor
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It took one hour to get to the Lovrenc lake area. First, I climbed the viewing tower. You can't even see the lakes as they are hidden among the low but thick vegetation.
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First of the lakes.
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Lake Cerknica is extremely high, flooding a large area along with many trees.
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A small lake.
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Lake Bohinj.
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After a brief coffee break in Kranjska Gora we headed to the Mangart lakes, already in Italy. There was still so much snow!
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The two lakes are unbelievably green.
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The upper lake and the ring of mountains with Mt. Mangart and Mt. Ponca.
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The lower lake was just as green.
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We continued past Trbiž to the Rabelj Lake. This small islet is so photogenic, but the light was harsh.
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This is the view to the other side - you can see a green lake in the middle of the opposite mountain.
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Zbilje Lake
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Reflections on Zbilje Lake.
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The Zbilje Lake
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after they were gone, they left behind a rippled lake surface and a distorted reflection.
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