{"id":7682,"date":"2025-01-20T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bohinj-riverhouse.si\/mostnica-gorge-and-voje-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:27:55","slug":"mostnica-gorge-and-voje-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohinj-riverhouse.si\/en\/mostnica-gorge-and-voje-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostnica Gorge and Voje valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mostnica Gorge and Voje Valley in the Heart of Bohinj<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mostnica Gorge and Voje Valley are two of Bohinj’s most stunning natural attractions, offering visitors a chance to explore crystal-clear waters, unique rock formations, and breathtaking alpine landscapes. Begin your journey at the Devil\u2019s Bridge and follow the well-marked trails through the narrow gorge, shaped by the Mostnica River, and onwards to the tranquil Voje Valley.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Mostnica Gorge<\/strong><\/p>

Mostnica Gorge and the Voje Valley are among the most beautiful and most visited natural attractions in Bohinj. On the way through the Gorge, you can admire the crystal-clear water and the boldly reshaped rocks, and enjoy the rich flora, fauna and cultural landscape that has been nurtured by the local people over the centuries. In autumn, the path leads you among the cows and their tinkling bells to the waterfall where the Voje Valley ends.<\/p>

The Mostnica is an alpine river with rapids and waterfalls, offering an interesting display of nature\u2019s creativity through the Voje Valley and all the way to Stara Fu\u017eina. Explore the wonderful world at your fingertips and enjoy a walk in the beautiful forest, accompanied by birdsong and the babbling of a mountain river.<\/p>

Devil’s Bridge<\/strong><\/p>

Just above Zois Manor, the stone, single-arch Devil\u2019s Bridge spans over deep flumes high above the Mostnica river. It offers a dizzying view into the narrow troughs carved out of the limestone bedrock by the Mostnica river. The stone bridge shortened and simplified the transport of iron ore and wood charcoal from the surrounding mountainous areas to the smelters below on the Mostnica river. Bohinj was the most important centre of mining, iron and steel production in the Julian Alps. Due to its iron ore deposits, it was continuously inhabited as early as the Iron Age (8th century BC).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A folk tale about the Devil’s Bridge:<\/strong><\/p>

People used to talk about how the Devil\u2019s Bridge was made. The people worked all day but the next morning everything that had been built was demolished. And someone said: \u201cLet the devil build this bridge, I will not build it anymore.\u201d And then the devil really started making it. The people asked him what he wanted for his efforts. The devil answered: \u201cThe first soul that crosses the bridge \u2013 this is the one that I want.\u201d In the evening, they wondered who this unfortunate person would be. A farmer who had a dog, got an idea. He said: \u201cI will take a big bone and my dog with me.\u201d Then he threw the bone across the bridge and the dog ran after it. The devil then took the dog\u2019s soul. He was very angry and started waving his tail, and so he demolished the entire fence.<\/p>

Erosion potholes and the Elephant<\/strong><\/p>

The Mostnica Gorge was formed due to water erosion of the surface. Although the majority of the water runs into Voje from karst springs and is not turbid, there is still enough gravel and sand to erode and reshape the rock, especially when the water is high and the stream is faster and has more volume. The fast water flow is turbulent, and this is the most important erosion factor for the rocky river bed. Potholes are the most visible erosion forms in the Mostnica Gorge. These are various round basins in the river bed, which usually contain sand and small stones. The energy of the water swirls the stones around and widens as well as deepens the potholes. One opening in the rock between two water-carved potholes is very interesting, forming a natural window with a rocky arch resembling an elephant\u2019s trunk.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Voje Valley<\/strong><\/p>

The grassland of Planina Voje is the open middle part of the Mostnica Valley, at an altitude of just slightly over 700 metres. The surface is covered with ground glacial moraine, and towards the south the pasture is closed by the terminal moraine dam. It is rich in water and at individual sites, water springs out of the ground. Planina Voje is in a typical glacial valley in the shape of the letter U. The only pasture that has survived on the mountain is the autumn grazing, so cows can be seen on the mountain pasture during the autumn months. Four brave men from Bohinj were the first to climb Triglav from the Voje Valley (26 August 1778).<\/p>

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