American Reacts to Slovenia - Europe's Hidden Gem 

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@@saltman4935 Monfalcone

​@@saltman4935 Trst je NAŠ!!!!!

You should try their restaurant at Begunje na Gorenjskem, 2-3 km from Bled.

Slovenian here, living 50 km south of the Austrian border. Incidentally, I was on a day-trip to Graz yesterday (took my daughter to a concert). Always a pleasure to visit the city! We also enjoy going on holidays to the Hohe Tauern National Park, to Tyrol and to other beautiful places in Austria.

@@jurekvakva Well, assuming which concert it was, probable we could have met yesterday... 😉

@@rome0610 - she listened to the Music of Hans Zimmer at Schlossberg.

@@jurekvakva Ok, than it was another concert after all, but we still could have met, since I dorpped off and picked up my sister at the Stephaniensaal (city center). 😉

Totally agree that Slovenia is a beautiful country. I had to laugh when a Hungarian got the chance to tell that another country was "little" ....a chance they haven't every day given that Hungary isn't that big either.... But in this case .....it is more than 4,5 times the area of Slovenia. A video were one could have a look at Hungary wouldn't be a bad thing. They also have beautiful places. Personally I have some ideas of paddling along Tisza....the most Hungarian river as it's called. Elevation difference is very small, but else how I don't know if it is possible to do. So far when visiting Hungary I've kept myself on land. Another must do video is to have a look at Romania ....specially Transylvania ...with the Carpatean mountains as a backdrop.... ...ooopppsss....maybe I shouldn't mention Romania with a Hungarian present ....haha....

@@Dan-fo9dk haha, it is not often I can say a country is little that's for sure. 😂 Although I didn't mean it as in comparison to Hungary just in general in Europe. Romania is also really beautiful, definitely worth a visit if you haven't yet been.

Thank you 🇸🇮❤️🇭🇺

"Europe it doesn't get the attention it deserves" As a tourist destination, I hope it will stay this way. Too many tourists put a burden on infrastructure and nature. There needs to be a good balance, and I hope Slovenia will manage to maintain it and not be overrun with massive tourism.

Dobro nam došli susjedi ... pa vi znate, da se mi vama uvijek radujemo :) i uvijek ste nam dragi gosti .. ostavimo politiku na stranu, mi "obićni ljudi" uvijek smo se razumijeli medjusobno

We also love you guys! Slovenes and Croats will always be brothers sisters :)

Please keep it this way. Some tourism is ok, but please no over-tourism! I'm just thinking of the Bled region... 🙄

​@@rome0610yeah, that's because nowadays all tourists that come to Slovenija believe they must post a Bled pic/vid on their social media. Bled is unique, but same goes for so many other places around the country that noone bothers to visit...

It was even better doing vacation there pre euro times ;)

@@rome0610 im from slo not tru anymore, to crowded prices went up cos turists

@@DamianP-n7bthat is so true, me myself am slovenian, and bled is beautiful, dont get me wrong, but myself would go to bohinj. Slovenija has much more to offer then the now called influencers show

slovenians were always allowed to travel abroad, even during the communist period. it wasn’t behind the iron curtain. it’s a lovely part where you live!

Thank you. Most ltalians come to the comment section to tell us that the coast line belongs to ltaly and we're gonna get beaten someday...

@@DamianP-n7b No; we started a war and lose it; it's a pity those lands are not italian anymore, but it's our fault, not yours. It reminds us what a war really means; once, in a vacation in Istria, I came across to a little town, Dignano (don't know the croatian name), there was an italian cemetery, with tombs since the Venetian time, and it was completely abandoned, because there were no Italians there anymore; it was really sad, especially when months later I met on old man, in the hospital where I work, born there, that never had the heart to come back to see his childhood places after 1947. He died a few day later. That way I saw the products of a war: people ripped away from their roots, memory disappearing, grieves, new names and new inhabitants for old cities. Fortunately, you too appreciate Venetian style and Dolce Vita, so in Slovenija and Croatia I feel at home, even if I don't understand the language

@@TheVinci19 thank you again. You seem to be a reasonable man that l would like to sit down with and have a glass of wine...

@@DamianP-n7b I wouldn't mind a good Laski Rizling at sunset; have a nice evening!

​@@TheVinci19se tutta la gente non solo Italiani la pensassero come te il mondo sarebbe un posto migliore....Sono Sloveno però tramite mio padre e forse anche mia madre ho radici Italiane e quindi adoro l'Italia in tutti sensi eccetto la politica 😂😂....sono del confine e sin da piccolo adoravo andare a Trieste a fare shopping con la mia mamma soprattutto duranti i tempi della Yugoslavia che come certamente saprai c'erano solo prodotti Yugoslavii....un caro saluto dalla soleggiata Portorose❤❤❤❤

They taste about the same😊

Sup bro.

....yeah, how strange..... ....Slovenia has "Mediterranean type coast" ...........maybe because it is a part of the Mediterranean coast.....right....

@@Dan-fo9dk sorry for having imagined that not everyone on this channel is fully aware of the subtile distinction between the Mediterranean and the Adriatic seas ! Enjoy your day sir!

@@ren2704 Your understanding of geography seems a bit foggy. The thing is that there are no "distinction".... ....the Adriatic Sea is a part of the Mediterranean.....period.... Slovenia is equally much a Mediterranean country as any other country around the Mediterranean. Hence you can not label it as a "type Mediterranean".....as if it was some place/country elsewhere ....a sort of look-alike Mediterranean....

@@Dan-fo9dk I guess if you go to Slovenia, once you go over the mountains east of the coast, the biome is not mediterranean at all and I doubt Slovenians really consider themselves as mediterraneans... Well what do I know about the Mediterranean? It's not like I wasn't born there and all got my family roots right on its shores for centuries :p

@@ren2704 You seem to be in an urgent need of getting out of your limited bubble and widening your horizon and knowledge. There are MANY countries and a whole range of cultures that are located along the shores of the Mediterranean sea. Do I sense that in the background somewhere you seem to have an idea that the Latin countries (Spain. France and Italy) are the "Mediterranean"....??? That is a rather strange and foggy idea of geography and culture that has gone wrong .....a total misconception. Those Latin countries does NOT own the Mediterranean sea ....nor do their culture describe to any length what kind of cultures there are to be found around it's shores.. The Slovenians know very well were their country is located ....and that is at the Mediterranean ....period.... The same is the case with other countries .....even if they are not Latin speaking and do not have Latin culture.....like for example Albania, Turkey. Egypt, Tunisia etc, etc. They are all located at the Mediterranean ..... Sorry ....you better need to get used to the reality.....

Climate change. When I was a kid (now I'm close to 40) there was always a lot of snow.

well it was the first ex yugoslavian country to join the eu, and the only other country to have joined is croatia

May I ask which war? WW2 or 1991? Living just 50 km from the border in Graz, Austria, in 1991 it was a very oppressive feeling to literally and actually watch our neighbors war...😟

@@rome0610 ww2, I was actually born in 1991 so it can't have been that one

@@telkicelstascal8875 Thanks for clarification, I associated "nan" with "grandma", but "pop" rather with "father", so both could have been possible. In 1991 we met a guy who fled from decaying Yugoslavia. Even for us it was a hard and depressing time, like once he came out of our amateur radio station and told us in a very silent tone: "Yesterday my father got killed." In one of our long talks he asked: "My mother is Slovenian, my father Serbian and I was raised in Croatia. Now tell me, what am I?" He now lives in Canada.

@@rome0610 damn hahaha what a mix, I guess I'm technically half yougoslavian(mums side) and the other half is like scottish/brittish, but born in Australia, I litterally have every colour hair on my body aswell, black white red blonde brown in 2 different shades hahaha I'm lotterally a bitza

most people in the western region speak italian in addition to slovenian. it’s not surprising. part of my family is from there and when i was a kid they only watched italian tv channels + many people work in triest etc oh yes, and local dialects are a fun mixture of slovenian with italian words mixed in

It can't be that bad, if you have to fly in, you can easily pick an airport in neighbour country. I do Slovenia - USA route quite often and for the most part, I pay around 400€/$ for a round trip. It does depend on a season though.

@@jaybogataj the cheapest flights I can find are A$2854 return on a 24-hr flight. Slovenia looks beautiful in a way I’ve never seen in person, but here in Australia it’s so much more affordable to go to Asia and the South Pacific. It will happen… 🇸🇮🇦🇺

Bloody hell they were brave! Not for swimming naked but because it's bloody freezing! I paddled my feet in it on a hot summer day. The waters fed by snow melt from the mountains. I couldn't feel my feet after 30 secs! No way was I brave enough to swim. I think my bits would have inverted!

Waterfalls of krka too, same as Plitvice during all 4seasons is magical. Risnjak is also cool to check..

This video had a title about Slovenia as a "hidden gem" country. Croatia is certainly a gem ....but not a hidden one anymore. Tons of tourists go there all the time......

@@Dan-fo9dk true but problem is they all flock to coast. North of Croatia and even Slavonija and lika have much more hidden gems tourists have no clue about.. coast too. Last 15 years I avoid coast, in summers I go to far away islands in places such have 0 tourists or to north which also have 0 tourists. Bunch of things too see, beautifull nature, rich history and way more cooler and calmer than coast. Slovenia actually is lucky for still be hidden. With massive tourism comes massive problems. When hordes of drunk Britt's start to urinate and even number 2 in old city areas and public streets, even apartment entrances and churches people kinda had enough. From vomiting all over to constant yelling and screaming in the night, traffic jams 0-24 so people are late for work, streets are crowded and piles of garbage on the streets you kinda wish to stayed hidden.

@@boredutopia Yeah....absolutely can mass tourism have it's flip sides.... Ask Spain or Greece about that.... They have seen that to a much bigger degree and for longer time..... But that was not the topic of the video.... I visited Croatia/Yugoslavia first time in the 1970's and already at that time were there plenty of northern European tourists......specially Germans....and for sure they were all going to the coast.... There are beautiful areas in the north-eastern inland. For example I have some idea of paddling along Sava and enjoy it's surrounding nature....

@@Dan-fo9dk yeah true, Iceland start to have same issues. I think that sometimes some areas with time attract too much people in short time and places can't handle it. Some places like Dubrovnik actually had to determine how many people can enter city in a day coz some sights can't handle too much people in old city parts, literaly are under threat to collapse or be ruined or damaged, like stairs, walls etc.. I think Slovenia has moderate tourism, not too much, but enough.. actually I think you can even check some sites for paddling, think there is groups of people who do it.

slovenia wasn’t behind the iron curtain or a soviet ally though

Ja, echt wel.

What had "the iron curtain" to do with "the late 90s"....???? It was long gone.....

What is interesting is that its quite cheap, but the population is not really poor like in a lot of other cheap countries.

@@matsv201 People are not poor but tourism in Croatia has suffered because of this. When the Croatian kuna currency was in force, many Poles went on holiday to Croatia. Until September last year. According to information provided by the Croatian Tourist Board, more than 1 million Poles spent their holidays there in 2022 . Now it is better for a Pole to go to Turkey because in 7 days he will spend 500 euros, they convert the price of PLN-EUR All Inclusive . Croatia is currently more expensive by 100 euros only for accommodation and there is no all inclusive .

@@smiechuwarte-qt8pncroatia is slowly turning into a rich people destination. soon it’s going to be a vacation destination for the entire hollywood it seems

@@tolstoyed Albania will take over the cheap seat

Croatia is certainly a gem .....but not a "hidden gem" at all. You must have been living under a rock if you don't know that Croatia has been a top tourist destination for a long time. Tons of tourists travel there all the time.....

Only 20 Macdonalds outlets in Slovenia

lol

only 2 million people though… that’s plenty big macs for everyone

I've been there a number of times and most of the fat people you see are German tourists. Many Slovenian homes grow a lot of their own veg and they don't eat much junk food or processed food so the average diet is fairly healthy.

​@@tolstoyedl've never been to Mc'donalds...