• Relax in Slovenia's seaside resorts. Portoroz is the country's most popular resort, with numerous hotels, pavement cafes and watersports.

• Go kayaking, canoeing and rafting on the Idrijca, Kolpa, Sava, Sava Bohinjka and Dolinka, Savinja and Soca rivers.

• Hit the slopes: there is a wide range of good skiing resorts including those in Bohinj, Bovec Pohorje (which hosts international competitions), Cerkno, Kranjska Gora, Krvavec, Zgornjesavska valley, the Rogla and Vogel. 

• Get active in the fashionable year-round mountain resort of Bled, near the Austrian and Italian borders. The resort is set on the idyllic Lake Bled, where skating and curling take place in winter, and swimming and rowing in summer. The trout and carp fishing are also very good. 
 
• Hike amidst the grandeur of the Julian Alps. The Triglav National Park in particular is a great place for keen trekkers and climbers, with mighty Mount Triglav itself the highlight.

• Scale a peak: mountaineering is a traditional Slovene sport - the Julian and Kamnik Alps are particularly popular. The Alpine Association of Slovenia organises adventure holidays (website: www.pzs.si). 

• Catch a bird's-eye view of Slovenia. The country's location south of the Alps means that parachuting, paragliding and ballooning are popular.

• Feel revitalised at Slovenia's natural spas. In particular, the Radenci Health Resort is renowned for its ‘three hearts' mineral water, said to have been served at the imperial court in Vienna and the papal court in the Vatican.

• Follow a wine trail. Worth visiting are the wine-growing hills of Goriska Brda or the nearby Vipava Valley, where a number of Slovenia's excellent wines are produced.

• Lipica in the west of Slovenia is home to the lippizaner horse, bred by the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy of the 18th century. There are currently only 3,000 of these horses left in the world. Tour the stud farm, watch performances of classical riding or even ride the horses themselves.

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