Unforgettable experience
Experience socialism, mining, and tanning using the original Šalek method. Your memories will be at least 160 metres deeper, your experiences of lakes different from what you’d been used to. Children won’t forget Pika, whom they will meet in hundreds of images. You will thank yourself for enjoying thermal relaxation!
Underground adventure in the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia
Take the miners’ lift to descend deep into the underground. In a dining hall situated 160 metres below the earth’s surface, try a miners’ lunch or a unique culinary event; whilst doing so, experience the special features of Velenje coal mining.
Jump into Lake Velenje
Velenje Beach is the best starting point for strolls, cycling, and horse riding around the lakes, the waterpark for swimming, stand up paddleboarding, sailing and kids playing, pleasant bars for relaxation, and sunken villages for surprising discoveries!
Refresh your body and mind at Terme Topolšica
Visit Terme Topolšica with its Zala Wellness Centre. The natural thermal water spring with constant temperature of 32C, green forests, fresh mountain air and many sunny days enrich your experience of the most modern ways to achieve health and wellbeing.
Pika’s Festival
The largest kids’ festival in Slovenia and its environs offers more than 100 workshops, plays, concerts and other experiences on various stages in Velenje every first week of September. Wherever you go, playful Pikas (Pippi Longstockings) are everywhere!
Experience socialism
Experience Velenje, the socialist wonder of former Yugoslavia, on a nostalgic and fun stroll with fellowship challenges, and a genuine socialist lunch at Delavski klub. Expect to laugh and cooperate in order to solve tasks!
The magic of countryside
Visiting the homesteads that have preserved traditional character over the centuries are one side of rural Šaleška Valley, the other being genuine experiencing of your wishes! Encounter the old skills, bees, flavours, and people. Live the way you want.
Tanning at Šoštanj
Šoštanj smelled of leather for a long time! Its picturesque square with city villas developed alongside the tannery for more than 200 years. At the Museum of Tannery in Slovenia, enter a working class apartment, a director’s office and a shoemaker’s workshop.
Adventure Packs
Find your package
Thanks to a package of the right experiences for yourself, you two, your family or group, you will discover Šaleška Valley in a completely different way!
Unique trio
Duration: 3 days, two nights
The Slovenia Unique Experiences trademark ensures that your experience in Slovenia will truly belong to you!
Culinary trio
One day experiencee
Experience the diversity of the days of yore and modern-day adventures in three towns boasting stories that could not make them more different from one another!
A diverse urban trio
One day experience
Experience the diversity of the days of yore and modern-day adventures in three towns boasting stories that could not make them more different from one another!
The underground trio
One day experience
Experience the diversity of the days of yore and modern-day adventures in three towns boasting stories that could not make them more different from one another!
Pampering at the spa resort with strolls around the magical countryside
Four-day itinerary of accessible tourism
Make sure everyone feels good thanks to the surprising discoveries to be made in the accessible and very magical countryside of Šaleška Valley. An excellent choice for the elderly and physically disabled persons!
A mountain cycling adventure
Half-day programme for physically active visitors
Reserve a few hours of your time to discover new pathways!
Holiday break for the family
Autumn school break
Combine the splashing around in pools with exciting learning opportunities and adventures around Šaleška Valley.
Culinary games without borders
Two-day group creative workshop
Create brand new dishes with the knowledge and ingredients your group will gather during a ramble around selected locations in Šaleška Valley
A wanderer’s tour for schoolchildren and their parents
A four-day programme of guided tours where every day is a new adventure
Let Šaleška Valley be the destination of your family’s grand journey!
Pippi Longstocking’s walking ‘round town
A family weekend during Pippi’s festival
Let your freckles show, make sure your stockings don’t match, and then it’s off to Velenje to take part in Pippi’s adventures!