Temnica - Sveti Ambrož (Tabor) (western path)
Starting point: Temnica (402 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 45.8452°N 13.6764°E
Path name: western path
Time of walking: 45 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 129 m
Altitude difference (by path): 160 m
Map: Goriška - izletniška karta 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Dornberk (to here from Vipava highway exit Selo, or from Šempeter pri Gorici), and then we continue driving towards Branik. Still in Dornberk we leave the road towards Branik and we go right in the direction of the settlement Potok and Trstelj. Further, we start steeply ascending, and after Železna vrata the road flattens, and we follow the signs for settlement Lipa and then Kostanjevica na Krasu. Soon after the settlement Lipa ends we go left in the village Temnica, where we drive to the church and cemetery, where we park.
B) We drive to Sežana, and then we continue driving towards Komen and then Kostanjevica na Krasu. Soon after the settlement Vojščica, we turn right in the direction of the settlement Temnica, and when we come in the mentioned village, we park on a parking lot by the cemetery.
Path description:
From the parking lot by the cemetery, we go on the road which leads towards the northeast, and then we quickly get to NOB monument. From the crossroad at the memorial we go left and then we slowly start descending and we soon also leave village Temnica. Lower, we cross the main road and we continue on a side road towards Trstelj. Follows few minutes of easy walking, where we go past another NOB monument, and after the memorial we gradually start ascending.
From the next crossroad, by which there is a memorial in the memory of war of independence in the year 1991 we continue right, and then we are ascending diagonally. A little after we cross the route of a high voltage power line, a cart track branches off to the right, which leads towards the top of St. Ambrož or peak Tabor. The cart track soon changes into a wider path, on which we at first get to the remains of the church of St. Ambrož, and a little further also to the peak.
Important notification (February 2020): Before we get to the ruins of a former church, the passage gets interrupted by a fence inside which lives a person, who doesn't allow to access the summit even if we bypass the fence. There were already reports to the police.
Also, the path which comes to the summit from the other side is harder accessible and fenced with branches and caption "no way".
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