Starting point: Stepani (175 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.5501°N 13.8575°E
Time of walking: 50 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 199 m
Altitude difference (by path): 210 m
Map: Primorje in Kras 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Koper we go to the exit Črni Kal, and then at the first turn-off we turn right in the direction of the settlement Stepani. After a good 100 meters from the crossroad, we get to a larger asphalt parking lot, which is situated at the beginning of the settlement Stepani.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we return a little back, and then we continue on the asphalt road which continues parallel with the highway, and at first from there a nice view opens up towards Črni Kal and Kraški rob and the upper part of the village Stepani with a church. Further, the road leads us a little higher from the highway, so that we have a view on viaduct Črni Kal and village Osp with the wall Osapska stena and Socerb a little higher, and in front of us, we see transmitters on Tinjan and part of the church of St. Mihael. At the first smaller crossroad, we continue slightly right, and after a light descent through the overpass we cross the highway. On the other side of the highway, the road turns left and it starts considerably ascending. Also at the next crossroad we choose the right road, and an asphalt only a little further ends and we continue on a macadam road which is ascending on distinct Primorska landscapes. The path ahead leads us through few partly already overgrown meadows, and higher through a pine forest, where at the crossroad we continue right in the direction of Tinjan. Next follows few minutes of a gentle diagonal ascent towards the right, and then we get to a crossing of five cart tracks, where from the right side, the path from Osp joins, and we continue on the left upper cart track (bad road).
A little further, we join a wider road, where leads a circular path from Dekani, and on the mentioned road we walk to a crossroad near the water supply structure. At the mentioned crossroad, we leave the road and we continue straight on the path which continues by the mentioned building. A little higher we reach another road, where we continue sharply left (few steps right is a nice viewpoint, from where we can see Trst, Socerb castle, Osp with the wall Osapska stena, etc. About a minute ahead, we reach an asphalt road, on which then with nice views on surroundings we quickly reach the church of St. Mihael, which is situated on the hill Tinjanski hrib.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2016 (July).
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