Our tour guide will wait for you at your desired meeting point in Vienna, Bratislava or Budapest with a welcome drink and bring you safely to the picturesque village of Terchová, where your hotel is located. Leave your baggage in the hotel room and take a stroll through the streets of this nice village at your own pace. Terchová is the birthplace of Slovak Robin Hood Juraj Jánošík, who robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor, as the legends say. You can hardly overlook the giant statue of this controversial hero looming on the hill right above the village.

If you arrive early in the village of Terchová, you will get a chance to visit charming gorges of Little Fatra mountains. Enjoy the wildlife and breathe the fresh air when walking on the trail which is secured by wooden and iron ladders, chains or grates.

Go for a drink in Terchová’s local pub and taste the delicious and incredibly cheap beer. Perhaps you will be lucky to see the villagers playing the traditional folk music of Terchová, which has been recently included in the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. But the main reason to spend our first night in this village is the fact that Terchová is the gateway to the National Park of Little Fatra. Get ready for tomorrow’s stunning trip.

After breakfast, we drive to the Vrátna valley in the National Park of the Little Fatra to take a modern 8-seat cable car to the summit of Snilovské Saddle (1524 m). Thanks to this possibility we don’t have to climb more than thousand vertical meters! Therefore, our mountain-ridge hike in Little Fatra will be very easy and still full of wonderful panoramic views over nearby valleys and peaks. We get off the cable car and hike uphill following the red sign trail to the highest peak of Little Fatra – the stunning Veľký Kriváň (1709 m). While enjoying 360-degree views, we descend to the peak of Chleb (1647 m) and continue walking on green alpine pastures of Little Fatra to the Hromové Saddle (1636 m). From here the ridge is getting sharper and the edge of the slope is very steep and rocky. Our next stop is the peak Poludňový Grúň (1460 m). We follow the yellow trail to the mountain chalet Na Grúni (973 m) where we take a lunch break and taste some of Slovak cuisine. After a short descent to the Vrátna valley, we return back to Terchová.

Estimated time for this hiking tour in Little Fatra: 4-5 hours.

This morning we visit one of the best attractions of the National Park of the Low Tatras – an enchanting Demänovská Cave of Liberty. Don’t forget to take some warm clothes because the average temperature in the cave is close to only 7 °C. Thanks to its spectacular dripstone decorations this cave belongs to the most beautiful caves in Europe. A rich complex of stalactites and stalagmites together with little karst lakes creates an ideal environment for bats. Be patient, you will perhaps spot one of them hanging upside down!

Our trip continues to the National Park of the High Tatras – the highest mountain range within the Carpathians! Every year thousands of hikers visit the High Tatras to challenge themselves on the peaks higher than 2500 m. As we approach the High Tatras you will instantly recognize one of its highest peaks – Kriváň (2494 m). Similarly as the Greeks have their Olympus and the Japanese their Fuji, Kriváň is the holy mountain of Slovaks, one of the national symbols. Tatra’s top tourist destination is undoubtedly Štrbské Pleso. We will have free time to have a lunch there. Take a walk around the huge glacial Štrbské Lake or visit Lakes of Love before we get back to the minivan and continue to the village of Tatranská Lomnica.

This will be something you’ll never forget! We take a cable car to Skalnaté Pleso Lake, which is situated right under the second highest peak of High Tatras – Lomnický peak. In the evening, we drive to the Popradske Pleso Lake to spend the night in the hotel situated right under the peaks of High Tatras.

Estimated time for this hiking tour in the High Tatras: 1-2 hours.

Today we explore Slovakia’s delightfully diverse National Park of Slovak Paradise. You will immediately understand why this park is named a ‚Paradise‘. A huge area of undiscovered wilderness between the rivers Hornád and Hnilec contains an incredible number of creeks that formed gorges with waterfalls and a large spectrum of underground caves. Slovak Paradise is a home of various animal species such as falcons, squirrels, bears, foxes or otters and rare flowers attracting colorful butterflies.

Our trek in Slovak Paradise starts in the village of Čingov. After a few minutes of walking we reach Tomášovský view, a huge rock shelf with limestone wall higher than 200 meters – a true paradise for rock climbers. Our journey continues to the old Letanovsky mill where we start to follow the blue sign trail to enter the magical canyon Prielom Hornádu. We walk above the river Hornád on footbridges, grates and wooden ladders before we arrive at the most romantic places of Slovak Paradise – Kláštorská gorge. The track between waterfalls is secured by a number of wooden and iron ladders, chains or grates requiring a little caution. Alternatively, you can use the yellow trail to avoid walking on ladders. After an hour we come to the ruins of the Cartesian monastery where we take a lunch break. The blue trail will lead us back to Čingov.

We finish the day in a completely preserved medieval town of Banská Štiavnica, which was included in its entirety on the UNESCO World Heritage List. You can take a stroll in the streets to get a real sense of the atmosphere of the town’s rich history of gold and silver mining.

Estimated time for this hiking tour in Slovak Paradise: 5-6 hours.

Depending on your flight schedule we visit the spa town of Sklené Teplice to enjoy your well-earned relax in a unique cave bath. Its water temperature reaches unbelievable 42 ºC! Your tour ends at your desired drop-off location in Bratislava, Vienna or Budapest.