ZELENICE
This little natural reserve preserves the official source of the Sava River, the longest river in Slovenia and one of the most important rivers in Croatia and Serbia, as well. The park is accessed from a parking lot on the south side of the road – you can only get into the lot driving in an easterly direction. The park is about 1 km east from the town of Ratece near the Italian border or about 2 km west from Kranjska Gora. From the car park you have a short walk through the forest coming out at a series of emerald green pools at the bottom of which you can see water bubbling up. Mountains reflect in the still waters as trout swim in the depths and ducks meander along the surface. The water comes from the nearby Tamar Valley where they originally pop out of the limestone cliffs as the Izvir Nadiže. The waters quickly seep back underground and re-emerge here at a constant temperature of...
