“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.” ― Gautama Buddha
Sometimes it's good to be without a plan for the day and spending that whole day outside with nature, good company and a beautiful sunny weather. Last weekend while gathering flowers on a long walk threw the woods I decided to go visit an old friend, stopped by on a nice turkish cup of coffee, bring some flowers to his mother and got invited to join them for lunch.
As we parked the car, the main road was still closed for cars, but we were determined to get at least to the waterfall. There was stil an impressive amount of snow up there, eventhough it's not that high altitude, when it snows in mountains, they also recieve some of it.
We followed the road, went off track, over the river's path to follow hiking trail as long as we could and back on the road that leads to a small cottage where you can get some drinks. Our plan was to get to the top of Okrešlj (1.378 m). This was my third time that I can remember walking this path that leads to waterfall Rinka. My parents brought me here when I was a few years old and I remember going on a trip here somewhere in the middle school.
It was a nice ,easy walk threw the forest, snow on the path and stunning views where ever I looked. After about an hour we got to the point where road ended and continued following the marks and hiking trail. By now most people were returning, but we continued, although we started late, if we wanted to get to the top as we would run out of sunlight.
When we got to the waterfall a lot of memories combined with really good feeling went threw me. We stopped for 10 minutes and decided it's probably better to go to the top of Okrešlj another day. The hiking trail was also fully covered in snow and ice ,while getting steeper. We still went nere the waterfall and ended up stitting on Orlovo gnezdo (1000m) with the view of waterfall and all the magical mountains around it.
When sun slowly started going down we returned to the cottage. Stopped for a cold beer and continued our path down to the car and then home. We had a great time combined with good energies, a ton of fresh air and some really beautiful views.
When sun slowly started going down we returined to the cottage. Stopped for a cold beer and continued our path down to the car and then home. We had a great time combined with good energies, a ton of fresh air and some really beautiful views.
I'm really grateful to be healthy, that I live in a tiny, but beautiful and diverese country, thats covered in forests and mountains. Grateful to be alive, able to walk, eat, read books and have a changed view of the world in such a short time of one year. It really does help mentally to write, share and clear thoughts and is a great way to help with improving life, while changing bad habits.
Photos are raw and made with my good buddy Samsung Galaxy A52s.
Thank you for being part of it, wishing you a great weekend and a good life.
