Travel diary - Low Tatras spring 2018 (1.day) // Dada's diary

Hi everybody :-)

I have decided to document the whole journey across the beautiful Low Tatras in Slovakia which I took with friends of mine. We are four friends and mountains bring at least some of us together. We spent 5 amazing days together and because of me, them and also as an inspiration for you, I am bringing almost complete (or what I surely remember) story here. If you have/will have any questions - please ask, shout out loud, do not hesitate to start knowing more if you are interested to take this kind of adventure on your own. In the last post/article (I have separated them - one for each day) I will write you what this journey gave me, took away from me, taught me and why my life has changed because of it so very much.

4.5.2018

17:30

We are supposed to meet at the train station in Žilina. Me and Tomáš are arriving there at 17:20, calling to Miro where are they. Well guess where - waiting for us at the station pub, chilling with beers. Tomáš is ordering beer as well and I am introducing myself to Katka. After not even 2 minutes we are laughing and chatting as proper girls would do so if they constantly came to liking each other. Miro is saying that tomorrow at the same time we might find ourselves back there in that pub, not being able to do it, to walk all that way (100 kilometres, even a little bit more).

17:45

Finally, the train should be coming, 15 minutes delayed does not really bother us. However, I am getting hungry. Tomáš is saying he is pretty sure the train will come to the second platform. And as we are finding out a minute later, he was right. I can see that "winning" smile. "Well wait, you will pay for it" we are saying to him :-D.

18:10

After some time, we stopped in the middle of nowhere, for the first 5 minutes I am not realising we are not moving further. Never mind, we are having great fun, drinking some Slivowitz (Slivovica) and talking about everything. 

Tomáš decides to go off the train for a toilet, I am laughing that the train will leave him there. He is coming back and again, he is wearing that "winning" smile. Once I might hurt him because of that.

We are asking the steward what is happening and she says that the train driver did not stop at the planned station so we have to wait for police officers to check out of him. She also mentions that the driver is probably drunk.

18:30

The police officers are here, we are joking that it is our mistake the driver got drunk, he saw us at the station and immediately gave it up. Could not carry us the whole way to Poprad with a clear mind, too dangerous. 

20:45

An hour delay has passed and we are in the town of Poprad. Our accommodation should be there, just 3 minutes by walk from the station is, Miro statement. It is not, it actually takes us to walk there 6 minutes. Miro screwed it up, we are making deserved fun of him.
On the way to find our accommodation me and Katka smell lilac very strongly but cannot see it anywhere. The smell is so intensive. Probably somebody wants to drug us up and we are starting to making up stories. "Well, they do not have to, we have our Slivowitz" we are saying at the end.
And here we are, in front of the building. What should we do, we do not know, the door is locked. We decide for not to knock but Tomáš had to try to knock a bit. Nothing is happening so we are getting nearer to the door and looking inside. It must be horrifying for anybody if they go around but we do not really care. Miro is calling to the owner. The owner is coming, letting us go inside and start to explain some house rules, asking for our ID cards and giving us keys. I do not know what he is trying to say, I am laughing with Katka as never. The funniest thing for us is that we have no idea why we are laughing. Tomáš is asking us if we know what the owner said. We are just laughing more, trying to stay at least a bit quiet, people are sleeping upstairs. Miro is asking us where to go but we are repeating that we do not know. So, as the tallest one, he is asking the owner where to go even the owner said it at least twice and I cannot breathe from laughing so much. 

The owner is OK, laughing a bit with us, understands we are heading a huge adventure.

21:10

After a good quick shower we are going to have the last shot of Slivowitz for that day, but I am refusing, already half sleeping so Tomáš almost carries me to my bed.

21:30

Sleeping as I have never slept in my life.

My officially first climbed top of the mountain (Malý Rozsutec) // Dada's lifestyle

Hellooo!

Oh, how happy I am to write this down - I reached the top of the Malý Rozsutec :-) 

I know, nothing big, nothing difficult, nothing impossible. However I am happy because this was the very first time when I did the whole tour and to be honest - it was not about stopping every 5 minutes or having a walking tempo. No, I was supposed to do it as fast as I could but still be able to save my strength. 

Malý Rozsutec (1343,5 metres above the sea level) is a cute mountain with a stunning view on Veľký Rozsutec which is another hill of Malá Fatra. It belongs to the National Park of Malá Fatra and it is very popular by locals and tourists from Slovakia.

We got there through Horné Diery which is a part of Janošíkové Diery, highly famous light hiking trail in Slovakia. You basically climb around the beautiful stream Diery. The only possibility how to go through this breath-taking part of Slovakian natural beauty is by using ladders, chains and tiny footbridges. I recommend you a good, strong and at least slightly high quality hiking shoes. 

Believe me, it is worth it. You feel completely different there. Unfortunately we did not take any photos since we wanted to make it quick as a preparation.

The reason of that was because I am leaving today for a 5-day hiking throughout the whole Low Tatras in Slovakia. As much as I am looking forward I am also a bit scared. In woods and mountains you go by a different life and I am thinking how it will be actually. If I am actually able to walk that whole way (around 150 kilometres) in 5 days. If the weather will be OK and stable because, believe me, we do not want to be hit by a storm up there. I am thinking how I am going to survive just with the smallest amount of stuff to survive with. And that concerns food as well. 

I really want to do it, it is about much more than just walking and climbing. It is about discovering yourself and your place in this world. 5 days without people (I am not going alone but you do not really speak to each oter while walking since the stuff you carry is horribly heavy and you go 25 kilometres per day). 

I am wondering how I will come back, if there will come any change of myself, if I explore my inner me a bit more, what this adventure will give me.