Slačka baba - Sveti Štefan (Zanigrad)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Črni Kal. From Črni Kal we continue driving on the old road towards the coast, and we are driving there only to the next little bigger crossroad, where we turn left in the direction of border crossing Sočerga. Further, we drive towards the mentioned border crossing, and we follow the road only some km, because then signs for village Hrastovlje point us to the left on a local road. After few km of additional driving, we need to pay attention because opposite of the nearby pig farm, will macadam road branch off to the left by which we park (turn-off of the road is right below the power line).

Path description:
From the starting point, we descend on the macadam road to the nearby water storage, there we continue sharply left on a little narrower macadam road. Macadam road is further gently ascending and through the underpass under the railway track brings us to a smaller unmarked crossing, where we continue right. Further, we are for a short time ascending parallel with railway track, and then the road turns a little to the left and starts moderately ascending towards the village Podpeč.
A little higher, still before we come in Podpeč, we will come on an unmarked crossing, where we continue right on a marked cart track (if we continue straight on the road we come in Podpeč). Cart track ahead for some time crosses slopes towards the right, and then it brings us to the next crossing, where from the right side, the path from Hrastovlje joins. Here we go left and we continue on a cart track which starts moderately ascending on increasingly steep slope. A little higher we get to the information board with a view on Štrkljevica (mountain wall of Kraški rob), and we continue on a marked path, on which in few minutes of additional walking, we get into partly abandoned village Zanigrad. When we step on the road, we follow it to the right, and we descend there to the near church of St. Štefan.