Photos of Slovakia 4


		A wonderful path and easy hiking. Amazing that so few tourists make it this far.
		Chata Hradisko, in the Slovak Paradise. A lovely place, run by a very friendly Slovak couple who both know everything about the area. This makes a great base for hiking trips into the Slovak Paradise - look out for Cingov on maps of the area. You can walk there from Spisska Nova Ves. You are also not far from the Tatra Mountains so you could do both places from this base.
		2002 was very wet, with serious flooding next door in the Czech Republic. As the rain came down, I was hiking high in the Tatra Mountains, getting wet, but not flooded out. Things were worse in Prague where the metro was flooded out and the zoo was flooded resulting in the deaths of a number of animals including a panic-stricken elephant that had to be shot and a seal that escaped into the Vltava river.
		Here I am, recovering from the long hike over the Tatras. There are huts high in the mountains serving draught beer. I originally thought that the beer was brought in by helicopter but then I saw young guys with a simple wooden frame - in which they carried barrels of beer up to the huts. It's hard enough word with a small backpack so these guys must be very fit.
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