Secovlje Things to Do

Maybe your best part of stay at Slovenian coast will include trip to salt fields in Secovlje - what is left amazes the senses. In a way. Salt is produced in the parts of existing fields, while majority of them is abandoned and due natural course of succession turned into wildlife habitat - birds heaven. It makes it a wonderful walk. Binoculars will be good. Still water reflects grasses and movements, it's mirror-like-landscape which is protected as Landscape park and part of Ramsar wetland habitats network (this speaks of its high importance for biodiversity). Some parts however are further reconstructed into salt fields, but its place for them all to live in peaceful symbiosis.

Please note you're not allowed to walk everywhere on your own - the designated paths are well described in a brochure you'll get at the entry where you pay for the admission. Observe the rules for minimum disrupt of animals.

Price:

5 Euro per adult.
3 Euro for student.
10 Euro for family ticket.

All the villages are usually at the top of the hills. This is the region of the wine trade mark "Refosk", tasty "prsut" olives, fruits and very picturesque villages, with the views far around.

This photo was taken in a very border between Slovenia and Croatia. The big white house is already in Croatia. Yuo pass the border crossing (in Slovene site) and there is the way to the beautiful region of Slovene Karst

Life in salt pans was heavy. Besides housekeeping, women had to work very hard. They tried several herbs, to found out if they're eatable.
In the middle of the photo is the herb, so small and tiny that you can't noticed it. It turns upon the humidity and it originated a sort of barometer.

Baking Bread
Atthat time, at Secovlje pans they had only three baker's ovens for baking bread and pastry. As one oven was used by several families, bread had to be marked by seals, made by village smith.

Another view onto the opposed site of the coastline. The hills are settled mostly with bungalows and weekend - cottages. You can rent some of them. I recomand to do this, because its peaceful there , they are comfortable, with shady gardens and never the less a view is great.

From the Secovlje pans, you can admire Bernardin and Beli Kriz on the top of the hill.. When it's a high visibility you can enjoy the magnificent view, Bernardin is a hotel settlement, with mostly expensive hotels in the left hand side of Portoroz (if you look from Secovlje)

There is one more useful thing in the Secovlje salt pans - the mud. A healthy mud named "fango". The whole body has to be spread with fango, till it dry up. You have to revise this process several times for the best results.