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Vintgar Gorge

Wooden walkways along the walls of a narrow gorge over rapids and pools of emerald water.

Photo: Akulatraxas from Hannover, Germany · CC BY 2.0
Open
Spring to autumn
Price
Paid; timed tickets in summer
Time Needed
2 hours
Address
Podhom 80, 4247 Zgornje GorjeDirections
Getting There
A summer bus from Bled, or a 4-kilometer walk.

Why Go

The Radovna river has cut a gorge 1.6 kilometers long, opened to visitors in 1893. The path, one way through it, ends at the Šum waterfall, below an old stone railway bridge.

Nearby in Lake Bled

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