Livek - Monte Mataiur/Matajur

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Tolmin, and then we continue driving towards Kobarid. When we get to the settlement Idrsko, we turn left in the direction of the settlement Livek. When we ascend to Livek, we park by NOB monument and multifunctional facility.
B) From Kobarid we drive towards Tolmin, but only to the settlement Idrsko, where we turn right in the direction of the settlement Livek. When we ascend to Livek, we park by NOB monument and multifunctional facility.

Path description:
From NOB monument we walk to the nearby crossroad, where we leave the road and we continue right in the direction of a marked path on Matajur (left Kolovrat, Nebesa and Livške Ravne, straight Italy and on the road to Avsa, Perati...). Further, we at first ascend on stairs, above the village path passes into mostly low forest and lane of bushes. Occasionally a little steeper path higher turns left and it brings us on the road, where flattens. Next follows few 10 strides of easy walking and we get to the church of St. Peter and Pavel.
At the church, we go left and we quickly get to the village Perati, where the path leads past few houses, and after the settlement from the crossroad we continue right upwards. Further panoramic road, that runs among pastures, semicircular turns left and before the beginning of the settlement Avsa brings us to a crossroad from which we continue right on a marked path, at first still on a road towards Matajur (slightly left village Avsa and tourist farm Jelenov breg below Matajur, straight parking lot above the village Avsa and old path).
The road quickly changes into a cart track, and it starts moderately ascending and leads us past more older, partly already decaying cottages. Higher from a cart track we pass on a footpath which for some time steeply ascends and crosses a grazing fence. The path soon flattens, and the forest is getting thinner, so that more often beautiful views opening up on surrounding mountains. After a time the path again widens into a cart track, and the cart track already after few steps passes into the forest road, where at the crossroad we continue left (right shepherd hut on Idrska planina), and at the next crossroad, we go straight (right Svinska planina) and we get to the upper part of the mountain pasture Idrska planina, where there stands a cottage Konjarska guta, which is only few steps distant from the path.
Here one of many possible approaches on Mrzli vrh branches off to the left, and we go from the road soon right on a marked path, which then quickly reaches other road, where we join the old path from Avsa.
We follow the road to the right and we walk there to the nearby marked crossing, where we go right in the direction towards Matajur (straight Dom na Matajure).
Further, the path again starts ascending over partly grassy slope, from which increasingly beautiful views opening up on surrounding mountains. Higher, when the path gradually already passes on the northern slopes, from the right joins also the path from the village Svino, and we continue towards Matajur. Next follows few minutes of a diagonal ascent and we already get to a crossing below Glava, where in the direction of straight continues "Slovenian route" on Matajur and the path, on which we can get to Visoka Glava, and we continue left upwards and quickly ascend on panoramic eastern ridge of Matajur, where joins the path from Italy (starting point Mašera / Masseris).
We continue on the mentioned ridge, on which we are gently to moderately ascending on national border between Slovenia and Italy. Next follows few minutes of more and more panoramic walking and we get to the top of Matajur, from where also a nice view opens up towards the west.
Livek - Perati 0:20, Perati - Avsa 0:10, Avsa - Idrska planina 1:10, Idrska planina - Matajur 1:20.

On the way: Sv. Peter in Pavel (Perati) (812m), Avsa (860m), Idrska planina (1250m)