Dragonja (crossroad) - Sveti Duh (Sveti Peter) (northwest path)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Koper, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Pulj / Pula through the border crossing Dragonja. Few 100 meters before the national border, at the traffic light crossroad we continue left (straight border crossing Dragonja, right Sečovlje) in the direction of Dragonja. Further, we drive through Dragonja, and then at the next crossroad we continue slightly left in the direction of village Sveti Peter and Nova vas. From the mentioned crossroad, we drive on the main road few 100 meters more, and then we get to some sort of triangular crossroad, where a road branches off to the left towards Sveti Peter, in the direction of straight continues the road through the valley of Dragonja, and on the right we notice a bus stop. At the mentioned crossroad there is the beginning of described footpath towards Sveti Peter or church of the Holy Spirit. At the starting point, there aren't any parking spots.

Path description:
From the bus stop, we continue in the direction of Sveti Peter and Nova vas on an ascending asphalt road. After few 100 meters, at the first left turn southeastern path branches off to the right, and we continue on the asphalt road which past the sign, which marks the end of the settlement Dragonja brings us also to the right turn. Approximately a minute ahead from the turn, across the road there is asphalted passage, where a marked footpath branches off to the left (turn-off isn't specifically marked), which a little higher at the stop sign returns on an asphalt road. We reach the road at the right turn, and already in the middle of the turn, we leave it, because blazes lead left on a side macadam road which then crosses slopes. Gentle road after few minutes changes into a cart track, and at few smaller crossings we carefully follow quite frequent blazes. Past few hunting observatories path gradually passes into a more dense forest, where it still continues without large changes in altitude. Next follow few smaller crossings, then the path leads us past two streams, which in dry period dry up, and in the time after heavy rain they are quite scenic and full of nice rapids. After the crossing of the second stream, the path becomes a little steeper and out of the forest passes into a lane of bushes, so that occasionally a view opens up a little on the other side of the valley of Drnica, where we can notice village Korte. Higher, we reach the plantation of olive trees, past which leads us partly rocky cart track. Above the plantation a nice view opens up on near and far hills, and the path at signposts, which otherwise marks direction of descent points us left on a wider cart track. After the rain quite muddy cart track few minutes leads relatively steeply upwards and then turns right and past a smaller pond brings us on an asphalt road and consequently to "first" houses in the village Sveti Peter. During the ascent through the village we will come to one of the attractions of the settlement - house Tonina hiša (house Tonina hiša was mostly built in 18th and 19th century, and today it is part of ethnological collection in Sveti Peter).
At the crossroad above the mentioned house we continue left and then past few more houses, including the farm Vojvoda, where we can buy homemade olive oil and Culture house Sveti Peter, we walk to a crossroad at the well.
At the well we continue right (if we go at the well straight and then after few meters right we can also get to the church of St. Peter from 18th century) in the direction of village Krkavče and Dragonja. The path ahead leads us on a little narrower asphalt road, from which soon already mentioned marked footpath branches off to the left. From the mentioned crossing ahead the blazes are gone, but there aren't any problems with orientation, because we all the time follow ascending asphalt road which quickly brings us to the cemetery church of the Holy Spirit on 253 meters high hill, from which a nice view opens up, which in good visibility reaches all the way from the sea and to the Alps.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2014 (November).