Geographycaly speaking
Slovenia it’s in part an Alpine country and as it is gifted with mountain chain which spreads truoght several slovenian regions on wich has developed and still is developing the winter tourism, especially skiing. The most significant mountain chains are those of the Alps, the
Julian Alps with the predominant mount of
Triglav (2864m highness) in the north-west of Slovenia and the
Kaninsko-Savinian Alps with mount
Grintovec (2558m highness) on the north. There are the also well known mountain massifs of
Karavanke on the north and
Pohorje on the north-east part near Maribor.
An avarage highness of the slovenian ski paths is between 1000-1900 m, and an avarage length of those paths is 20km.
Slovenia has about fifteen famous ski resorts divided among its northen regions: the north part of Primorska and Notranjska Kraska, Gorenjska, the north part of the surroundings of Ljubljana and the Stajerska region.
Primorskia and Notranjska Kraska has their ski resort
Kanin-Bovec on the extreme north, and this is the only ski resort in
Slovenia that has its ski paths above 2000m higness and
Cerkno-a little bit on the south-east from
Kanin.
As a region
Gorenjska has a plenty of ski resorts wich the most significant are those in
Kranjska Gora, and
Kobla and
Vogel.
The near region of
Lubiana and its surroundings has
Krvavec, which is near
Pohorje the largest slovenian ski resort and it is situated on the slopes of the
Kaminsko-Savinian Alps. Here is also the
Big Mountain, maybe a little less known as a ski resort but definitively the most appropiate ski resort for familiy with kids.
Stajerska as a region has several mountain chains ,which determined the devfeloping of numerous ski resorts on that area, as
Pohorje-near Maribor, the east part of the
Karavnke and
Kaminsko-Savinian Alps. The most known ski resorts are
Mariborsko Pohorje, Rogla, Kope and
Crna e Ravna na Korosken.
All the slovenian
ski resorts are equipped with modern wiryes of different capacity and they are very well managed. Many of them have an illumination for the unique experience of the
night skiing.
Beside skiing ,as the main activity, ski resorts offer the possibility to practice many other sports such as
snowboarding,
nordic skiing,
sledging,
climbing on the
frozen cliffs an so on.
Beside the high quality of the offer for
winter sport practicing, the significant one is the one of
accomodation in
hotels,
appartaments,
private inns and
houses, so even the most demanding guests can find something for themselves. Numerous
restaurants,
tavrens and
snack bars offer as well as the tipical national meals also the international meals which will not leave you indifferent.