Zazid - Golič (direct way)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Koper highway, take the Črni Kal exit. From Črni Kal, continue driving on the old road towards the coast, but drive along it only to the next somewhat larger intersection, where we turn left in the direction of the Sočerga border crossing. We drive for a short time on the mentioned road, then signs for Predloka, Loka, Bezovica, Podpeč, Zanigrad, Zazid and Rakitovec direct us left onto a somewhat narrower local road. Further, we drive to Bezovica, where at the smaller intersection in the middle of the village we continue left in the direction of Podpeč. Further, we drive through Podpeč (the road through the mentioned settlement is very narrow) to the village Zazid, where we park on the parking lot by the sports field.

Path description:
From the sports field we walk to the village, where we come to an unmarked intersection, by which there are a bench and a water tap. Here we continue right and follow the slightly ascending road to the upper part of the village, where we notice the first signs for Golič and Lipnik. Again we continue right and continue the ascent on the asphalt road that leads to the nearby water catchment. Already some 10 m before the water catchment, we come to the next unmarked intersection, where we continue on the right macadam road. The macadam road then brings us to a smaller intersection, by which there is the next water trough. This time we continue on the left wider road, by which we quickly notice the marking. We continue the path for a short time on the worse road, then a marked shortcut branches off to the right. The path quickly returns to the road and already after a few steps splits again into two parts. Wherever we continue, the path will quickly bring us to the railway track and the decaying railway station Zazid. We carefully cross the railway track that leads towards Pula, and on the other side of it we arrive at a marked junction (to here we need approximately 20 minutes).
We continue right in the direction of Lipnik and Golič (left Brežec and Kraški rob) and continue the path on the gentle cart track that ascends transversely to the right. Higher, beautiful views towards the sea and Istria begin to open up, and we continue on the gentle path that returns to the forest and brings us to a marked junction.
From the junction we go left in the direction of Kraški rob and Golič (straight Lipnik) and continue the ascent on the wide but unmarked path, on which in 10 minutes of further walking we arrive at Kraški rob. Here a worse path branches off to the right, on which we can arrive at the vantage point in 1 minute (a view opens up on Golič and part of Primorska), otherwise we continue straight on the cart track that begins to descend barely noticeably towards the Zalipnik plateau. The cart track, which gently descends through the forest, quickly brings us to an unmarked junction, where we continue left (slightly right cart track that continues along the southwestern part of the Zalipnik plateau and later joins the marked path from Lipnik towards Nadglavinjak) initially still slightly downhill. Further on, the path brings us out of the forest and begins to ascend gently on the partly grassy plateau. Somewhat higher we step onto a worse road, which we only cross, and continue the ascent for a few minutes on easier pathless terrain. The "path" further leads us towards the northeast, and we walk on pathless terrain for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, then we arrive at the marked path that leads from Kojnik towards Golič (Part of the path on pathless terrain can be avoided by, when stepping onto the worse road, continuing left, then before the road enters the forest, continuing right on the cart track that ascends along the edge of the forest. The cart track higher flattens, then joins the marked path Kojnik - Golič (the latter path is approximately 20 minutes longer)).
Wherever we have reached the marked path that leads from Kojnik towards Golič, we continue right, and with nice views on Slavnik and part of Primorska, on an initially gentle then somewhat steeper path, we ascend to a sort of "cross" on Golič.
From the "cross" we descend slightly, then in a moderate ascent we reach the higher but less pronounced summit of Golič.
From the summit with the "cross" to Golič we have good 20 minutes of walking.