Blog – Bovec Rafting Team

Bovec Rafting Team Blog

Welcome to Bovec Rafting Team blog. It has three different missions:

here you will find the answers to the questions you might have before booking rafting, canyoning, canoeing, kayaking or other activities we offer
it’s also a place where our very special offers are published
besides it’s a home to legends and stories of the top places in the Soča Valley and Triglav National Park that you should visit

What if I have a specific medical condition?

When considering booking adventure activities we all feel extremely healthy, fit, young, majestic, good looking and...

Can Children Go Rafting with Us?

Planning a family holiday is a project that closely resembles the crisis management when forecasting natural disast...

Can I Take My Camera with Me on Rafting?

Digital photography has lifted our vacationing to a completely new dimension. In the past your friends have admired...

Women’s Day Special

First, Happy International Women’s day, ladies. 8th March is a special day for women. It’s a day when w...

Vršič, Statue of Zlatorog

The land of the Trenta valley and the surrounding mountains are called Zlatorog’s kingdom. It was once a flou...

Lepena, the Water Hurst of Šunik

The Water Hurst of Šunik is one of the pearls of Triglav National Park. You will be charmed by small waterfalls an...

Bovec, Kluže Fortress

One of the most interesting sites in our valley is Fortress Kluže. Old stronghold, placed between steep slopes of...

Isonzo Front Military Cemeteries in the Soča Valley

For 29 long months of the Isonzo front soldiers were hiding in wet pits, trenches and dark caverns, silently listen...

Trenta, Monument to Julius Kugy

Where Vršič Pass road descends almost to the village of Trenta, there’s a bronze monument standing at the 4...

Bovec, Isonzo Front Outdoor Museum Ravelnik

The outdoor Museum Ravelnik is a circular forest trail that tells a story about Isonzo front. It’s located on...

Isonzo Front in Soča Valley

Less than a year after the outbreak of World War 1, a roar of cannons moved from distant parts of Europe into the v...

How the Alps Shaped the Soča Valley, part 3

30 million years ago the Alps have risen from Tetys Ocean and forever changed the face of Europe. They stand before...

How the Alps Shaped the Soča Valley, part 2

Once upon a time the Alps were twice as high as today. Mountains were rising 6.000 meters upon the wild landscape....

How the Alps Shaped the Soča Valley, part 1

Soča valley lies in the lap of the Julian Alps. Breathtaking landscape of green meadows and forests, white mountai...

Vršič, Russian Chapel and Russian Cross

An unusual wooden chapel tells a sad story of the Russian prisoners of war who lost their lives in an avalanche in...

Srpenica, Memorial to Lucy Christalnigg

Not far from Srpenica village stands a stone cross, dedicated to the first civilian victim of the World War One in...

1st World War – Reasons for the Clash

First World War is one of the most disturbing chapters of the Soča River valley history book. We mark 100 years si...

Vršič, Military Cable Car and Belvedere

A year before Italy entered the 1st World War, Austria-Hungary began to build a strategically important road over t...

Lepena, Great Gorge of the Soča River

This is one of the MUST visit places in the Soča Valley. If you have never seen Soča before you are probably wond...

Predel, Fortress on Predel Pass

Along the road to Predel Pass, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, stands a stone pyramid with a bronze statu...

Vršič, Ajdovska Deklica

One of the turbulent natural phenomena´s shaped a face of a girl on the slope of Mt. Prisank. It gave birth to the...

Legend of the Soča River

When you come to our valley there’s one thing you cannot miss. The beauty of the Soča River. Its crystal cle...

Top 5 Things to See in St Leonard Church, Bovec

Yes, we too have our little Sleeping Beauty. In the middle of the magical forest not far from Bovec stands a small...