A really varied ride with a forest climb, otherwise a mainly flat route, with a cruise through cute little Karst villages and wide open fields to Petelinje lake, the second largest of the 17 Disappearing Lakes of Pivka!

HIGHLIGHTS..

• A really fantastic forest climb, made easy with the E Bike and a rewarding downhill into the Pivka valley..
• Ride out to a very different Green Karst scenery, with lots more white Karst rocks, thick pine trees and Disappearing Lakes..

sensational approach to Petelinje Disappearing Lake.. completely different landscape just 15 mins from the Lodge!

• Reach the Petelinje Disappearing Lake, to explore this massive natural bowl..
• Visit the micro Museum of the 17 Disappearing Lakes of Pivka to find out what all the fuss is about..
• Several restaurants in Pivka AND a dairy en route where you could buy yogurt and cheese for a picnic!
• Stunning views on the way back to the Lodge of Mt Nanos, 1,313m, the last mountain in Green Slovenia..

coming home to Nanos mountain..

DURATION..

this is a LODGE LOOP.. so you leave from the Lodge and come back to the Lodge..

Biking time about 3 to 4 hours, depending on loops chosen..

You can do this in a half day, or easily take all day with scenic stops and maybe a spot of lunch..

this way from the Muesum to the Petelinje lake, just a few km..

DESCRIPTION..

Bike out from the Lodge on quiet roads to reach the village of "Little Nut", Orehek, where you join a remote forest track to climb up and over the main hill between our mini Green Nanos region and Pivka.

Pivka is named after the mainly underground river that brings life to not one, but 17 Disappearing Lakes! 

Your mission is to reach the second largest of these lakes and there is a lovely downhill through the forest to reach the Pivka valley.

amazing forest ride short cut to the 17 Disappearing Lakes of Pivka..

Despite being only 15 mins away by car, the Pivka mini region is very different to ours, with big open fields and lots of white rocky Karst landscapes with smaller, thicker pine trees inhabiting the numerous sinkholes and open fields that become these 17 lakes.

Off road stone tracks lead to the micro Museum of the 17 Disappearing Lakes, where you can choose to stop and find out all you need to know about the local flora & fauna of this huge Disappearing Lake park..

Follow the marked stone track up from the museum to the Petelinje Lake and explore the lake area.

this is how the centre of a disappearing lake looks, water gushes up from all these rocks and sinkholes to make a huge lake..

If you are here in the summer the lake will have almost certainly "disappeared", so you will be able to go into the centre of the 6km square bowl to find the rock sinkholes and experience the eery silence of this green natural theatre.

Return home via a dairy that sells fresh yougurt and cheese and this time by pass the forest hills going through pretty little back street Karst villages to reach Little Nut and a bonus forest section back to the Lodge! 

Wow, what a ride and with the distance involved, only really possible with an E Bike for most of us..

bike out along this fab track to the Museum of 17 Disappearing Lakes..

THINK ABOUT..

There will be enough juice in the E Bike tank on this ride to push a little further from the Petelinje lake before turning back, so you could explore the Pivka basin a little further.. maybe adding an hour to the ride.. just ask..

You could easily do this ride in reverse if you prefer the solitude of the forest hill on the way back as the far point is the Petelinje Disappearing Lake in the middle of the loop!

Also possible to go via the forest and come back via the forest to skip the villages if you prefer.. 

the Petelinje lake in the winter..

PLEASE NOTE: EVERYONE is different, so EVERY Lodge E Bike route can be as long or as short as you like.. we can help you choose the best route for your time available, interests and group dynamics.

Maybe you have just half a day, maybe you want to eat along the way, maybe you have never heard of a Disappearing lake.. it doesn't matter.. ALL you need to know to start with is you can have a REALLY fantastic experience on an E Bike along any one of our Lodge routes and this is exactly why we got the E Bikes in the first place!