Gorge-ous

As most of you know, I'm slightly obsessed with following Rick Steves' advice while traveling in Europe. He's got good instincts and advice about 90% of the time. Today, he rightly advised us to visit Vintgar Gorge near Lake Bled (two out of three triangles, his rating system). However, he very incorrectly described them as "the poor man's Plitvice." Having visited both in the last few days, I can assure you that other than both having waterfalls, they're really not comparable.

Plitvice is a series of tiered lakes, with each lake flowing down to the next (leading to gorgeous waterfalls). Vintgar Gorge is a mountain river flowing through a rocky gorge, with waterfalls over rocks along the way. I guess they both have boardwalks too, but other than a general waterfall and boardwalk theme, there's little to connect them. I fear that readers of Ricks book who have been to Plitvice before coming here will skip Vintgar and miss out on a beautiful (and easy) hike. Hopefully he corrects that inappropriate phrasing in his next book...

A few pics of the gorge and our faith in engineering (these boardwalks were originally built in the late 1800s and some seem that old)....