Rafting and day in Bled, it's all fun in Slovenia!

Bled train stop

Hello folks !


Hope u all had an amazing Easter holidays and not a rough start back with the routine, coz I know is hard, but I have some ways to minimize the holidays post-depression.
And this is .... going rafting !

Rania (a Greek girl working here fro AIESEC) thought that a nice way to farewell her before she goes back home, it was going rafting all of us, so she organized this amazing activity.

The D day was the 7th of May (Saturday), we gathered together at 9:15am in the train station, to go to Bled, where the people from the rafting company were waiting for us to take us to Sava River.
The trip itself from Ljublana to Lesce-Bled it takes just 40 minutes, but some part of the railway were under construction, so we had to take a bus from LJU to some village, and then take the train to Bled, so at the end we spent like 90 minutes.

Anyway, nearly 12 we were already in the starting point for rafting, we were like 13 people, 9 pseudo Slovenians (meaning exchange students in LJU) and 4 visitors from Austria, friends of Thanos. We had to get ready before starting the journey, including the neopren suit, helmets and life jackets. and this is the result... according to a friend of mine, we looked like Atomic Ants... I don't know if I should take it as a complement or what, but we looked funny either way  lol.

The Atomic Ants group

So, after we got ready, we jumped on the boats, and we started to pad, beautiful river, stunning landscape, it looked like a dream trip, and a very good one.
The finished our trip without any incidents... well without any big incidents... while acting like jerks in the boat, we got stuck in the middle of the river, so the monitor had to get off the boat to take us out of there, but he couldnt, so me and Thanos jumped off to help him, which was succesfull at the end, but... the flow drove the bopat down so we had to swim straight to the boat... and fuck, the water was freaking cold !! around 8 degrees or so .. imaginee... hopefully we got quickly to the boat...

Rafting in Sava River

Spicing up the journey, we also stoped for a while to climb a 5 meter high rock and made a free jump to the water, it wasn't high, but we did enjoy it tough... and again suffering from the coldness of the water.

After 2 hours ride, we finally made to the ending point, were a lady working for the rafting company was waiting for us with some blueberry schnapps to warm up the body.. delocious! Right after we just changed to our regular clothes and chill out for a bit before going to Bled.

Well what can I say about Bled that I haven't said before... beautiful as it is, but this time was slightly different, we got to enjoy the gorgeousness of the lake, it was so sunny that it made it really special, we had lunch in a pizzeria (which accepted student coupons) and take a walk around the lake.

Bled

Around 5pm some of us decided to go back to LJU, so the 4 people coming for Austria decided to drive us to the train station, so we end up being 7 people in 5 sit car... imagine the picture... well u have it here..

7 people, 1 car

The train back to LJU was direct, so we it took less time inbound trip, around 40 minutes.

After this amazing and exhausting day, we just went back home, to rest for a while, so we can go partying later that night.
I met with some Spanish to go to Nebotičnik and have a drink and later rock Orto bar.

Some 'extreme sport', tourism, relaxing, partying, as you can see, one can do everything within 24 for hours, at the expense of sacrifying some sleep of course..

1 abrazo enormee guys !


Key facts:

13 people
40 km to Bled from LJU (7 euros round trip ticket by train)
Rafting in Sava River(23 euros)
2 hours rafting
Orto Bar (rock music bar with free pool and foosball)