This post contains selfie photos, and gardening, my own roses, orange and red roses, concert of Kandračovci.

Time: August 2021

Location: Hažín nad Cirochou, Home village, Bela nad Cirochou

This post contains photos during visiting natural reservation, mountain moments.

Mountain hotel “Sliezsky dom” is a mountain hotel built in Velická dolina at the foot of Gerlachovské štít, above Velický pleso in the High Tatras.

The first cottage above Velický pleso was Blasy’s cottage, built on the north-eastern bank at the initiative of Eduard Blasy, who was the director of Starý Smokovec. The building, built in 1871, was swept away by an avalanche two years later. In 1895, the Hungarian Carpathian Association built the Sliezsky dom cottage on the southwest bank of the Velický pleso. The cottage was enlarged in 1908 and 1943, but burned down in 1962. In its place, the current mountain hotel was built in six years. It is the highest mountain hotel in Slovakia, which after a complete reconstruction in 2010 offers mountain lovers newly furnished spaces in a typical Tatra style with wellness services.

Another cottage was Hunfalvy’s cottage built between 1876 and 1878 on Vyšná Velická Poľana thanks to the Hungarian Carpathian Association. The stone-wooden building had a kitchen, light, bed, porch and stove. After the opening of the Silesian House, it served only as a backup cottage in case the new building was overcrowded. After being destroyed by fire in 1913, only the foundations remained from the cottage, visible from the Tatra highway. The cottage bore the name of a geographer from Veľký Slavkov – Ján Hunfalvy (1820 – 1888).

At present, the Silesian House has been rebuilt into a four-star mountain hotel, unique especially for its location, which allows access directly to the highest peak in Slovakia, Gerlachovský štít. After a complete renovation, the hotel offers accommodation in 36 rooms and 8 suites, which are based on the original historical layout of the building. The Silesian House also has a hotel restaurant, which currently houses the famous chef Ľubomír Herko. The mountain hotel also has a summer terrace overlooking the Velická Valley.

It is also possible to get to the Silesian House by car during the summer, you just need to call the reception and check the free parking spaces. The hotel also offers guests free export from the car park in Tatranská Polianka with its own off-road car. During the winter season, the hotel is only accessible via a snowmobile, which the hotel staff arranges for incoming guests.

Time: My 33. Birthday Week, 10. – 18. august, 2021

Location: High Tatras

This post contains photos, summer moments accross area of Tatranska Lomnica, funny park, tarn-lake, mountain resorts, natural reservation.

The territory of Tatranská Lomnica has had since 1209, when it was the subject of the first royal donation of Andrew II. many owners. The last private owner was Ondrej Spóner, from whom this territory was bought by the Hungarian state in 1892. In that year, the first state spa in the High Tatras and another of the Tatra settlements – Tatranská Lomnica – were established. In 1893, the Hotel Lomnica was built, at that time the largest in the High Tatras, later a remarkable Spa House with a swimming pool and hydrotherapy. In 1905, the representative Grandhotel was built, which was renamed the Grandhotel Praha in 1919. During this period, various sports grounds, a ski and toboggan run, ice rinks and tennis courts were created.

Eurocamp FICC, ruins of a cottage

In the interwar period, a number of family pensions and private residences grew up in Tatranská Lomnica. In 1933, the largest modern convalescent home in Moravia was established. The main tourist attraction was acquired by the settlement in the years 1937 – 1940, when a cable car was built to Skalnaté pleso and Lomnický štít. Its construction also enabled the construction of astronomical and meteorological workplaces near Skalnate pleso and Lomnický štít.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Tatranská Lomnica became the main center of trade union recreation in Slovakia. New hotels (Slovan, Horec), convalescent homes (Uranus, Odborár, Slovakia, Sasanka, Družba – now Willi) have been added. The 1970 World Championships in Classic Skiing brought further development. A new cable car was built from Tatranská Lomnica to Skalnaté pleso, which gradually replaced the old one. Thanks to the World Meeting of the International Association of Camping and Caravanism (FICC), a recreational and accommodation center for 1,500 people was established south of Tatranská Lomnica in 1974, later Eurocamp FICC with a reception building, bar, bungalows, shops, sauna and swimming pool. The FICC Eurocamp was canceled in 2009.

Time: 33. Birthday Week, 10. – 18. august 2021

Location: Tatranska Lomnica, High Tatras

This post contains photos especially accross tarn called Jamske Pleso.

Jamské pleso (1,447 m above sea level) is a mountain lake in a limbo grove west of Štrbské pleso. Its area is 0.67 hectares and a maximum depth of 4.2 meters. It is located in the Važecká valley near the Tatra highway below the pre-peak of Jama, after which it also bears its name.

On the eastern bank of the lake, the well-known organizer of Slovak tourism and a member of the voluntary mountain rescue service Gustáv Nedobrý (1893 – 1966) built a private cottage with the then name Nedobrý cottage, which burned down in 1943. The rest of the cottage was destroyed in 1944 by retreating German troops. In memory of the SNP heroes on the west bank of the ball, the TANAP administration planted a limbo grove.

Time: 33. Birthday Week, 10. – 18.- august 2021

Location: High Tatras

This post containes photos during summer season especially at mountain area, cottages, natural reservation.

The cottage was built by the climber and mountain guide Štefan Zamkovský (a native of Levoča), in the years 1942 – 1943. Before that he worked as a porter and helper at Téry and Zbojnícká chata. In the years 1929 – 1938 he was one of the best Slovak climbers. He managed the cottage with his wife. During World War II, the cottage served as a refuge for partisans, Jews and political prisoners. The cottage was very close to the popular Hrebienok, standing at the crossroads of hiking trails to Téry’s cottage and Skalnaté pleso.

Very comfortable tourists especially liked it very quickly. In the first post-war years, the well-known Tatra mountain carrier Ján Hudaček from Lendak worked here. After nationalization in 1948, Mr. Zamkovský had to leave the cottage. She was nationalized. In 1951 it was taken over by Slovakotur and it was renamed Chata kpt. Sticker. This teacher and later a soldier of the Slovak army, a participant in the anti-fascist resistance, which fell in the Second World War in 1943 in the Ukrainian city of Ovruč, had no relationship with the High Tatras. Štefan Zamkovský worked at the cottage until 1952, when he had to go to the nearby Bilík’s cottage. After a short time, he went with his family to Počúvadlo near Banská Štiavnica.

In 1961, at the age of 53, he died in Banská Štiavnica. In 1991, at the initiative of Július Andráši and Ivan Bohuš Sr., the nomenclature commission of the Municipal National Committee in Starý Smokovec returned the cottage to its old name – Zamkovského cottage. The cottage was managed at that time by the Tatra Administration of Special Purpose Facilities of SO ČSZTV. In 1989, this organization put into operation a small hydroelectric power plant near the cottage, which supplied the cottage with electricity. Shortly after the “gentle revolution”, it was administered by the newly formed Slovak Carpathians. In 1993, Zamkovský’s cottage was handed over to the property of Štefan Zamkovský’s heir. During the following years, several reconstructions were made at the cottage. The new owners of the cottage, after the departure of Ladislav Kulang to Skalnata chata, rented the cottage to Mgr. Jane Kalinčíková, who became its owner in 2003. The cottage is supplied with food and fuel by alpine carriers.

Time: 33. Birthday Week, 10. – 18. august, 2021

Location: High Tatras

This post contains photos especially waterfall called Obrovsky Vodopad.

Starý Smokovec is a part of the town of Vysoké Tatry in northern Slovakia in the Tatras. Its name is pronounced approximately “Star-EE Smoke-oh-vets”, meaning “Old Smokovec”.

Starý Smokovec is a popular resort for skiing and hiking. It also forms the junction of the Tatra Electric Railway train line, connecting Poprad, Tatranská Lomnica and Štrbské Pleso.

Amongst the more important buildings in the district are the sanatorium and the Grand Hotel (established in 1904). It is connected by the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular to the small ski resort of Hrebienok at 1285 m.

Hrebienok is a small ski resort in the Tatra Mountains, in northern Slovakia. It is connected by the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular to the town of Starý Smokovec, which is in turn part of the Tatra Electric Railway.

Time: 33. Birthday Week, 10. – 18. august 2021

Location: High Tatras, Stary Smokovec, Hrebienok

This post contains photos during visiting tarn called Popradske pleso, and cottage over there.

Popradské pleso (once called Rybie pleso) is a mountain lake of glacial origin located in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is situated right on the Tatranská magistrála hiking path, at an altitude of 1,494 metres (4,902 ft).

Popradské pleso is one of the most visited spots in High Tatras and a starting point for many popular hikes including to Rysy and Kôprovský štít. Near to the lake there is Symbolic Cemetery, built in a memory of the victims of the High Tatras.

Time: 33. Birthday week- 10. august-18. august 2021

Location: High Tatras

This post contains photos during season of summer, especially waterfalls called Skok, natural reservation.

Skok Waterfall is about 30 m high waterfall in Mlynická dolina. One of the most beautiful Tatra waterfalls, whose beauty stands out at increased flows. The waterfall falls from a rocky threshold at an altitude of 1,789 m above sea level. m. The ascent around the waterfall is secured by chains and leads along slippery granite slabs. The seasonal closing is from November 1 to June 15. A yellow sign from Štrbské Pleso leads to it.

Time: August 2021

Location: High Tatras, Waterfalls- Vodopády Skok, Celebration week, 33. birthday

This post contains special photos during visiting of High Tatras, tarns called Velke and Male Strbske Pleso.

Štrbské Pleso  is a ski, tourist, and health resort in the High Tatras, Slovakia located on the lake by the same name. With extensive parking facilities and a stop on the Tatra trolley and rack railway, it is a starting point for a host of popular hikes including to Kriváň and Rysy.

The future resort began to emerge in 1872 when Jozef Szentiványi [sk] (“of St. John”. 1817–1906, from a noble family with roots in the nearby village of Liptovský Ján, originally: Sv. Ján, “St. John”) built a hunting lodge on the banks of Štrbské pleso. Access to the High Tatras was made easier the year before when the railroad reached Poprad in their foothills. Szentiványi rented the lot from the village of Štrba whose municipal lands included the lake and which gave its name to it. He opened it to tourists a year later and allowed the Carpathian Union, a hiking society, to build its own Chalet Joseph nearby in 1875. The accommodation facilities that Szentiványi kept adding made it a popular destination. The rack railway connecting it to the main railroad was built in 1896. The first ski school was organized in 1899. The Tatra trolley linked it with other resorts on the Slovak side of the Tatras in 1912. The resort was acquired by the government in 1901.

The adjacent area of Nové Štrbské Pleso began to develop in 1897 when the land was purchased by the architect Karol Móry of Banská Bystrica. He dammed the Mlynica Brook in 1900 to flood a minor marsh, create the small “New Lake of Štrba”, and enhance the charm of his property.

A treaty of alliance between the governments of Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia was signed in Štrbské Pleso on 27 June 1930, that created a regular consultative structure for the Little Entente and registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 3 October 1930.

Štrbské Pleso was considerably modernized in the 1970s, including the construction of several hotels, ski jumps etc. Another big reconstruction of almost all the hotels and sport areas took place in years 2007-2014 before the 2015 Winter Universiade.

Time: August 2021, Celebration of my 33. birthday week

Location: High Tatras

This post contains summer moments from city of Poprad, main ocupation is due to mountain season and foreign visitors.

Poprad is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatra Mountains, famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. It is the biggest town of the Spiš region and the tenth largest city in Slovakia, with a population of approximately 50,000.

The Poprad-Tatry Airport is an international airport located just outside the city. Poprad is also the starting point of the Tatra Electric Railway (known in Slovak as Tatranská elektrická železnica), a set of special narrow-gauge trains (trams) connecting the resorts in the High Tatras with each other and with Poprad. Main line trains link Poprad to other destinations in Slovakia and beyond; in particular, there are through trains running from Poprad to Prague in the Czech Republic.

The territory was since the Migration Period inhabited by Slavic settlers. The first written record dates from March 16, 1256 in the deed of donation of the Hungarian King Bela IV. It was colonized in the 13th century by German settlers and became the largely German town Deutschendorf meaning ‘Germans’ village’. From 1412 to 1770, as one of the Spis towns, Poprad was pawned by the Kingdom of Hungary to the Kingdom of Poland, resulting in a strong Polish influence on the city’s further development. In the 17th century, the number of Germans began to decline. In January 1919 this territory was placed under the control of Czechoslovakia.

Poprad itself was for 690 years (up until 1946) just one of several neighbouring settlements, which currently make up the modern city. The other parts of the current municipality are Matejovce (German: Matzdorf; Hungarian: Mateóc, first reference 1251), Spišská Sobota (German: Georgenberg; Hungarian: Szepesszombat, 1256), Veľká (German/Hungarian: Felka, 1268), and Stráže pod Tatrami (German: Michelsdorf; Hungarian: Strázsa, 1276). The most significant of these original towns was Georgenberg, now Spišská Sobota, which preserved its dominant position in the area until the late 19th century.

In 1942, during World War II, most of the transports of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps in German-occupied Poland were sent from the Poprad railway station. The first transport of about 1,000 Jewish girls and young women left Poprad on March 25, 1942 for Auschwitz-Birkenau. By the end of 1942, when the deportations stopped, over 58,000 Jews had been deported from Slovakia to Poland via Poprad.

Poprad was liberated on January 28, 1945 by troops of the Soviet 18th Army. The German population was expelled afterwards.

After the war, with the development of winter sports, Poprad became the starting point for expeditions to the High Tatras.

In 1999, Poprad put in a bid to host the 2006 Winter Olympics, but lost to Turin, Italy.

Location: Poprad

Time: August 2021