Slovakia : Trasa na Slovensku

[lovingkindness]

Hello,

Has anyone on the forum hiked along El Camino in Slovakia? I am looking for advice on 'Trasa na Slovensku' , from Kosice to Brataslava. Thanks.

Cheers,
Lovingkindness

 

[lovingkindness]

Some links

https://www.facebook.com/pg/CaminoSlovakia/posts/?ref=page_internal Camino Slovakia Facebook
http://www.caminodesantiago.sk/-trasa-na-slovensku Trasa na Slovensku : Stages + profiles
http://www.englishmaninslovakia.co.uk/tag/slovakia-hiking-maps/ about hiking in Slovakia

 

[Colette Z]

Yes I walked that 125km last October 4.5 days. PM me for details and questions. You’ll need to speak some Slovak. It’s a real hike with no infrastructure between morning and night. Beautiful scenery. I live half the year in Slovakia.

 

[lovingkindness]

Yes I walked that 125km last October 4.5 days. PM me for details and questions. You’ll need to speak some Slovak. It’s a real hike with no infrastructure between morning and night. Beautiful scenery. I live half the year in Slovakia.

Thank you!

 

[lovingkindness]

@Colette Zaharie
Whoops, I think you meant to post the above in a PM to me. Thanks Colette, could you send this message to me via a PM then delete your friend's name and the email addresses from this thread.

Yes, I'd love to see the pictures.

Thanks
Cheers
LK

 

[Colette Z]

@Colette Zaharie
Whoops, I think you meant to post the above in a PM to me. Thanks Collette, could you send this message to me via a PM then delete your friend's name and the email addresses from this thread.

Yes, I'd love to see the pictures.

Thanks
Cheers
LK

I don’t know your name to send a PM.

 

[Kanga]

Usernames and avatar appear on every post - in this case @lovingkindness . Send her a PM by hovering your mouse over her Avatar and “Start a conversation”

 

[Colette Z]

Usernames and avatar appear on every post - in this case @lovingkindness . Send her a PM by hovering your mouse over her Avatar and “Start a conversation”

Thanks Kanga I was unaware of this option.

 

[lovingkindness]

....greetings from along the way. The hiking is excellent, the scenery and architekture superb. It has taken me 5 days hiking from Kosice through the mountains and forests, over hills and meadows to reach Levoca where there is an exquisite Sv Jacob church with guilded wooden carvings by Master Pavel.. I'll write more once I reach Brataslava...
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Cheers
Lovingkindness

 

[Frances Bat]

Great! I'd also be interested in knowing the route. Kosice to Levoca is a well-known pilgrimage route but I'm not sure where the path goes from there to Bratislava. Btw I speak Slovak.

 

[Frances Bat]

I see the links explain the route. Thanks for posting.

 

[Colette Z]

Did you get to meet Eva in Kosice? I walked it in October and very lovely.

 

[Colette Z]

Great! I'd also be interested in knowing the route. Kosice to Levoca is a well-known pilgrimage route but I'm not sure where the path goes from there to Bratislava. Btw I speak Slovak.

The Camino in Slovakia has been marked almost completely from Kosice to Bratislava with the exception I believe of a section near Donivaly.

 

[Frances Bat]

Thanks. I live near Donovaly and I haven't seen any Camino markings in my hikes. Now I know why. This has been an interesting thread for me.

 

[Colette Z]

Thanks. I live near Donovaly and I haven't seen any Camino markings in my hikes. Now I know why. This has been an interesting thread for me.

Hi Frances, I’m in Piestany (currently visiting family in Ottawa for a few months). If you ever want a walking buddy let me know.

 

[lovingkindness]

Dobrý deň, greetings from Liptovsky Mikulas....
...sore feet, happy heart...

For the past few days I have been hiking along the Tatranská Magistrála trail from Tatranská Lomnice to Žiarska dolina then descending via Jalovec to Bobrovec to overnight . This is mountain hiking at it,s best. Awesome views with a physical challenge, mountain clearings, wildflower meadows and blue berries . The weather has been rain, fog, and a dusting of snow with windows of sunshine -a bit of everything.

From Kežmarok to Liptovsky Mikulas I have been using the Trasa na Slovensku Google map as a general indication of direction. there are no Camino signs as yet. One can walk either from village to village in the valley or head higher up the mountains when the weather permits. Whilst the trail signs are very good in the mountains there are times when I have drifted off course. I am finding maps essential.

From Liptovsky Mikulas I will follow a few trails and cycle paths to Donovaly where the next stretch of Trasa na Slovensku is signed and there may be a guide book.

Cheers
Lovingkindness

Ultreia e Suseia
Life is very good

 

[lovingkindness]

Did you get to meet Eva in Kosice? I walked it in October and very lovely.

Hi Colette,

Sorry, no I didn,t manage to contact Eva. I am walking without a phone so find connecting with others very difficult once I begin travelling and hiking along the way. I rely on public computers eg libraries for internet and sometimes it can be days or even weeks before I am able to answer messages.

I am not sure when I,ll next be online. but hopefully it will be sometime soon.

Cheers
LK

 

[lovingkindness]

I see the links explain the route. Thanks for posting.

You,re welcome.

 

[domigee]

Hi @lovingkindness , glad you are enjoying it, sounds like a wonderful hike!
I walked from Wien to Bratislava and then on to Hungary. Loved Bratislava, both my walking mate and my husband enjoyed the beer there, they dragged me to a beer Emporium! Lol
Have a lovely time.

 

[lovingkindness]

Hi @lovingkindness , glad you are enjoying it, sounds like a wonderful hike!
I walked from Wien to Bratislava and then on to Hungary. Loved Bratislava, both my walking mate and my husband enjoyed the beer there, they dragged me to a beer Emporium! Lol
Have a lovely time.

hi Domigee, what was your route through Hungary?

and from Wien to Brataslava ?

 

[domigee]

Here goes:
Vienna to Schonau (35km), Hainburg (26), Bratislava (Slovakia, 17), Dunakiliti (Hungary, 31)
Lipot (27), Gyor (29), Babolna (28), Tata (33), Tarjan (20), Zsambek (22), Budakeszi (19), Budapest (26), Szigetszentmarton (35), Szalkszentmarton (33), Dunafoldvar (25), Paks (22), Kalocsa (18), Baja (42) and then to Serbia.
Great memories

 

[KinkyOne]

Dobrý deň, greetings from Liptovsky Mikulas....
...sore feet, happy heart...

For the past few days I have been hiking along the Tatranská Magistrála trail from Tatranská Lomnice to Žiarska dolina then descending via Jalovec to Bobrovec to overnight . This is mountain hiking at it,s best. Awesome views with a physical challenge, mountain clearings, wildflower meadows and blue berries . The weather has been rain, fog, and a dusting of snow with windows of sunshine -a bit of everything.

From Kežmarok to Liptovsky Mikulas I have been using the Trasa na Slovensku Google map as a general indication of direction. there are no Camino signs as yet. One can walk either from village to village in the valley or head higher up the mountains when the weather permits. Whilst the trail signs are very good in the mountains there are times when I have drifted off course. I am finding maps essential.

From Liptovsky Mikulas I will follow a few trails and cycle paths to Donovaly where the next stretch of Trasa na Slovensku is signed and there may be a guide book.

Cheers
Lovingkindness

Ultreia e Suseia
Life is very good

Oh, you're a real trooper again LK

Yes, the nature is very nice. I remember Tatranska Lomnica from my early age (still in Socialist times in 1981) when our family went for skiing there. Some very nice vistas and hills.

Let me know if you'll be near Slovenia this summer. Take care!

 

[lovingkindness]

....the other day by a strange blink of a whim I found myself seated beneath a grand chandelier at the Salamander Hotel in Banska Stiavnica dining on fine cuisine in the company of 26 french speaking bee keepers on a research holiday in Slovakia. They said, There are 1650 or more Brown Bears in the Low Tatras mountains and the bee hives in Slovakia are protected by electric fences....

Hiking through the forests I have seen wild boar, mouflon and deer. Most days there are fresh paw and claw prints in the mud ...which the eye tracks as the gitters flitter and grip then leap about ones innards ...

Every Frenchman recognises a coquille de St Jacques and when someone in the group saw me in the street wearing a scallop shell round my neck they called out, Compostela...then I was invited to share accommodation and meals. It was just as well as it was a bank holiday. I had been hiking for 10 hours and in all the villages before BS there was absolutely nowhere to stay....

 

[lovingkindness]

Oh, you're a real trooper again LK

Yes, the nature is very nice. I remember Tatranska Lomnica from my early age (still in Socialist times in 1981) when our family went for skiing there. Some very nice vistas and hills.

Let me know if you'll be near Slovenia this summer. Take care!

.. Thanks a lot for the invitation.. I have no plans as yet...

 

[lovingkindness]

Here goes:
Vienna to Schonau (35km), Hainburg (26), Bratislava (Slovakia, 17), Dunakiliti (Hungary, 31)
Lipot (27), Gyor (29), Babolna (28), Tata (33), Tarjan (20), Zsambek (22), Budakeszi (19), Budapest (26), Szigetszentmarton (35), Szalkszentmarton (33), Dunafoldvar (25), Paks (22), Kalocsa (18), Baja (42) and then to Serbia.
Great memories

Thanks,domigee. The distances look large. How about the profiles?

 

[lovingkindness]

..and now, here I am in Brataslava after a few glorious days hiking through the Maly Tatry following the ,red, trail and making detours. How serene it was to spend hours every day alone amongst towering Carpathian Beech trees. Many are hundreds of years old, the grey trunks luminous in early morning light. Most of the journey was like this...

I had difficulty between Topolcianky and Nitre finding accomodation and resorted to hitch hiking and public transport a couple of times at the end of the day. After Sered the trail was hot, flat and exhausting so I took a bus via Trnava to Dol,any then climbed into dense forests...

Cheers

 

[lovingkindness]

...several months on...

Hi there, I have just put together a little resource containing general info, stages + accommodation, maps + route finding, and a selection of awesome scenic moments which I discovered along the trail from Košice to Bratislava. You can download it here:

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/resources/slovakia-košice-to-bratislava-june-–-july-2018.685/

Slovakia is beautiful!

Cheers
Lovingkindness

 

[Madrood]

Just adding that I saw evidence of this route recently, on a visit to Spiss Castle. Saw the odd seashell sticker too in Bratislava.

 

[lovingkindness]

Just adding that I saw evidence of this route recently, on a visit to Spiss Castle. Saw the odd seashell sticker too in Bratislava.

Hi there @Madrood
I would love to return to Slovakia! ...and will you be visiting Levoča, too? In the Bazilika Sv. Jakuba Apoštola there is an exquisite carving of Sv. Jakuba with a beautiful curled beard, the work of Master Pavel (1517). A pair of binoculars or a zoom lens would heighten the experience.

Levoča: Sv Jakuba

 

[Madrood]

Hi there @Madrood
I would love to return to Slovakia! ...and will you be visiting Levoča, too? In the Bazilika Sv. Jakuba Apoštola there is an exquisite carving of Sv. Jakuba with a beautiful curled beard, the work of Master Pavel (1517). A pair of binoculars or a zoom lens would heighten the experience.

Levoča: Sv Jakuba
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The trip already ended I'm afraid; I was short on time so I had to skip Levoca. I did manage to get to the wooden church in Kezmarok, Kosice, and into the High Tatras, as well as Bratislava. Seems like it would be a great route, if the accommodation would be more plentiful.

 

[domigee]

Hi there @Madrood
I would love to return to Slovakia! ...and will you be visiting Levoča, too? In the Bazilika Sv. Jakuba Apoštola there is an exquisite carving of Sv. Jakuba with a beautiful curled beard, the work of Master Pavel (1517). A pair of binoculars or a zoom lens would heighten the experience.

Levoča: Sv Jakuba
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Just reading your posts makes me dream