Velika Planina, Karst plateau near Kamnik, Slovenia.
Velika Planina is a karst plateau near Kamnik featuring rolling green meadows scattered with over 140 wooden shepherd huts that have distinctive oval shapes. The terrain is open and gentle, crisscrossed by walking paths that connect different areas across the heights.
Shepherds first settled the plateau in medieval times, establishing seasonal grazing grounds that continue to be used in similar ways today. The distinctive hut design developed gradually as herders adapted their structures to mountain weather and pastoral needs.
The place remains tied to shepherd life, and visitors can watch herders making traditional cheese and tending their flocks across the meadows. This way of living shapes how the plateau looks and feels throughout the year.
A cable car and chairlift system carries visitors from the valley to the plateau, with well-marked walking paths of varying difficulty throughout the area. Come prepared for changing mountain weather, as the open meadows offer little shelter from wind and sudden rain.
The Preskar Museum is housed in an original oval shepherd's hut and displays everyday tools and household items that reveal how people actually lived in these small wooden structures. Stepping inside shows just how compact life was in a mountain dwelling designed purely for function.
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