Self-drive Highlights of Slovakia with a hire car

Self-drive Highlights of Slovakia with a hire car

Traveling across Slovakia, you’ll see the most interesting places. On your tour, you’ll see several castles, go through four national parks, you'll really visit them, go on a leisurely hike, If you like it, sample Slovak cuisine, and enjoy breathtaking views! You'll also visit one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia: Oravský hrad, where one of the first ever vampire movies was filmed – Nosferatu.
Visit also High Tatras and Low Tatras National Parks and 4 UNESCO heritage sites, the unique and characteristic element of log houses in Čičmany are their exteriors ornamented in geometrical pattern.
Next stop Orava castle is one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia: Oravský hrad, where one of the first ever vampire movies was filmed – Nosferatu (1922)
The High Tatras and Low Tatras NP are truly unique as one can enjoy magical silence in the valleys as well as maximum relaxation.
Banská ˆtiavnica, next UNESCO Heritage site. You’ll take in a tour of this picturesque town.

Start and end in Vienna or in Bratislava. With the self drive Slovakia tour with a hire car, you have a 3 day tour package taking you through Slovakia and 4 National Parks. This tour includes 2 nights accommodation in 4* and one night in 3* hotels with breakfast and transport – rent a car.

Day 1: Vienna/Bratislava. Cicmany village. Orava castle.
The unique and characteristic element of log houses in Čičmany are their exteriors ornamented in geometrical pattern. The authors of ornaments, as rule, were women who originally adorned only the corners of houses first with mud and later with lime. However, since the 19th century the motifs were added and painted all over exteriors of not plastered log houses.
Next stop Orava castle is one of the most beautiful castles in Slovakia: Oravský hrad, where one of the first ever vampire movies was filmed – Nosferatu (1922)
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included in High Tatras National park: Overnight in 4* hotel with breakfast next day.
Expected arrival to the High Tatras: 6-7 pm

Day 2: High Tatras National Park
This day you’ll stop in the oldest National Park in Slovakia. You can take some of easy hikes suitable also for children. For example to the Huge waterfalls and mountain cottages or to the Skok (Jump) waterfall, only 3 hours of total hiking.
The High Tatras are truly unique as one can enjoy magical silence in the valleys as well as maximum relaxation. In this National Park are around 600 km of marked trails that can take the tourists to the most interesting and also hidden places of the High Tatras. You should visit also Belianske Tatry and Bachledova valley with popular treetop walk.
Only 25 minutes from Tatras mountains you can find Spiš castle with its area of more than four ha, and partially in ruins, is one of the largest castle compounds in Central Europe. Spiš Castle was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993
(Spiš castle is not suitable from November till April)
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight in 4* hotel with breakfast

Day 3: Low Tatras National Park
The biggest National Park in Slovakia is NP Low Tatras with its 1102 square kilometers. It provides you the most stunning views on untouched forests, valleys and peaks. Slovakian caves full of stalactite formations are opened for public. You should visit one of them and also you should take a cableway to the Chopok mountain. From the Chopok peak you can take a hike to the others peaks around.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight in 3* hotel with breakfast

Day 4: Visit UNESCO heritage sites Vlkolinec and Banska Stiavnica
After breakfast you'll drive through the Low Tatras National Parks and one-hour journey takes you to the village Vlkolinec, remote UNESCO heritage site in the forest.
Next you'll drive to the town of Banská ˆtiavnica, next UNESCO Heritage site. You’ll take in a tour of this picturesque town.
After lunch, you’ll start heading back towards Bratislava/Vienna, passing one of the oldest castle in western Slovakia: Nitra castle. You'll see it on your right side.
Expected arrival time in Bratislava or Vienna: 7 pm
Meals included:
• Breakfast

Traveling across Slovakia, you’ll see the most interesting places. On your tour, you’ll see several castles, go through four national parks, you'll really visit them, go on a leisurely hike, If you like it, sample Slovak cuisine, and enjoy breathtaking views!
Visit also High Tatras and Low Tatras National Parks and 4 UNESCO heritage sites.