Active holiday at the Slovenian coast

Listen to this tale about love and salt sea air. The 46-kilometre long Slovenian coast boasts a myriad of small romantic towns. The medieval town of Piran is the most picturesque of these – a town that has blossomed due to salt production. Take a walk along the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park and taste the flower of salt. Did you know that the Sečovlje salt works are the northernmost salt works still operating in the Mediterranean, and one of the few salt works in the world where salt is produced following age-old instructions from the 14th century? Salty pleasures may be randomly exchanged with sweet ones and with wholesome bread you can soak up a rainbow of flavours – fish, olive oil and wine. Check three tourist packages which will take to the Istrian villages of Zazid, Puče and Dekani. Get to grips with life on a tourist farm and pedal your way between Piran and Dekani.

Package 1: Zazid, a getaway that’s just the right distance

Walk to the Istrian village of Zazid, which offers beautiful views of the nearby hills. Enjoy a panoramic bicycle ride or a picturesque hike along the neighbouring paths. Stay at an old renovated Istrian house and enjoy the local cuisine.

Accommodation:

* Hostel Xaxid

Package price:

* EUR 108 per 2 persons

The price includes:

* 2 nights in a double room for two persons

* Breakfast

* Bicycle rental

* The price does not include:

* Costs of lunch and dinner

* Tourist tax

More information: info@hostelxaxid.si, +386 (0)5 639 2006, www.hostelxaxid.si/index.php/en/

Package 2: Relaxation at the Tonin tourist farm

The Tonin tourist farm featuring a meadow and children’s playground is located in the heart of Slovenian Istria at the end of the village of Puče. The farm offers traditional Istrian-style suites, delicious homemade food and wines. You can also help the hosts during the harvesting of hay, summer pruning in the vineyards, hoeing of vegetables, grape and olive picking, feeding the animals and other farm work.

Accommodation:

* Tonin tourist farm

Package price:

* EUR 25 per person

The price includes:

* 1 night with breakfast

* Helping on the farm

* Snacks and beverages

More information: tonin.pucer@gmail.com, +386 (0)31 559094, www.kmetija-tonin.com

Package 3: Cycling or on foot. It’s really great – take a look!

Stay in the comfortable rooms of the Bordon tourist farm in Dekani in Slovenian Istria where you will be warmly welcomed and accompanied on an afternoon walk. In the evening, enjoy tasting Istrian delicacies and wines. Cycle to Tinjan or your favourite seaside spots the next day. Learn about the history of the Istrian gem, Hrastovlje.

Accommodation:

* Bordon tourist farm in Dekani

Package price:

* EUR 95 per person

The price includes:

* 2 nights with breakfast

* tourist tax

* visit to Hrastovlje

* tour round the tourist farm

* organised tasting of Istrian delicacies and wines

More information: kmetija.bordon@gmail.com , +386 (0)5 658 22 60, www.sloveniaholidays.com

Try Piran sea bass during your active holiday on the coast and dip a piece of bread in Istrska belica, green olive oil, one of the best olive oils in the world. Experience the Istrian tradition in an osmica winery, where small wine producers offer and sell their local wine and dry cured meats. Satisfy your sweet tooth with chocolate combined with the flower of salt.

Take a panoramic bicycle ride along Parenzana. Breathe in the salt sea air on the scenic bicycle route which once served as a narrow gauge railway connecting Trieste with Poreč. Stop at Moon Bay in Strunjan. Freshen up by jumping into the sea or climb on the top of the highest flysch cliff in the Adriatic Sea which rises 80 metres above the sea.

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