Slovak Orava region is famous for its rolling hills and spectacular scenery. You can certainly enjoy many summer holiday activities, including cycling, rafting, hiking, horseback riding and fishing.
Winter sports enthusiasts may be more likely to come across a four-month long ski season and take advantage of many ski resorts in the area.
When you choose to visit, here are a few reasons why you really need to spend a holiday in Slovakia, in the beautiful region of Orava:
Stunning scenery
There is simply idyllic landscape Orava, whatever time of year to visit. This, of course, contribute to your vacation to relax, where you can escape the stress back home.
A lot of things to do
There is so much to do, during your stay, a lot of marking trails, such as walking, cycling various cycle routes, horse riding, fishing, picking mushrooms and berries, skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, sauna, spa, adventure parks and also enjoy the many traditional activities, including trips to the local shepherd Islands, some cheese.
Culture in Slovakia
Orava is a great place in the great days of culture, including the Orava Castle, Slanica Islands, Orava Museum of Orava, art galleries, Zuberec Skanzen is an open air museum) and the UNESCO VlkolÃnec nearby village.
Diet
There are many great places to eat, whether to comply with international cuisine and is brave enough to taste the local cuisine. Best of all, because of the relatively low price compared to home, you will be able to choose the best chef's specialties and local wines, without really watch your pennies!
Great Self Catering Accommodation
Another great reason to visit Orava is that you can stay in luxury self catering accommodation in Slovakia.
So why not take advantage of cheap flights to Poprad - Tatry and visit Orava and northern Slovakia.
People who are looking for your place in the sun can do worse than look at Slovakia. He previously was part of Czechoslovakia, but now its right to the republic of the communist regime after World War II until 1991. Little remains of these days and Slovaks still rarely talk about them.
Slovakia is divided into 8 self-administered areas, each with its own capital of Bratislava, Trnava, Trencin, Nitra, Zilina (Western Slovakia), Banska Bystrica (Central Slovakia), Košice and Prešov (east). West (near Vienna), Bratislava and Kosice in the east, there are cheap flights to airports to airlines like Sky Europe. The map can be found in Slovakia on its west border with Austria, Hungary to the south, north of the Czech Republic and Poland and its eastern border lies in the Ukraine.
For the most part, the language is Slovak, although the occupation and the communist regime in the carry-over means that many Russians understand but not speak. As with the trend elsewhere in Europe - the English taught as a second language, and is usually someone around who wants to practice the visitor, especially university towns.
Most of the economic life is still concentrated in the area of ??Bratislava, the other major cities in western Slovakia. These areas may also be interested in the real estate investor. The reason is simple - a solid economy, increased investment (both foreign and domestic), excellent infrastructure, favorable business environment with relatively low unemployment and high population. This allows you to Trnava, Zilina and Trencin to a lesser extent, nitro, in central Slovakia, in exceptional markets for those who are looking for unexploited opportunities. Prices are a little low competition, and potentially high returns.
Trnava and Zilina perhaps no longer a secret tip in Slovakia, but they are still virtually unknown abroad. Both of these historic cities have much in common, excellent infrastructure and accessibility (air, road and rail) in emerging economies, though not out of control, and a rich history and culture, is also a major university campuses). Dutch couple who were found to be too expensive to Holland, after the introduction of the euro has decided to settle in the area, buying a small farm near Levice, Nitra region. Levice is relaxed size of a small town located between the wine fields, and to the north: skiing in the mountains hiking, biking and general outdoor life. There is an excellent and punctual bus service running between the small towns. The area is Mediterranean atmosphere without the price tag. So they feel they have the best of both worlds, all-season vacation opportunities.
Along with stores such as Tesco and demonstrates the excellent rural products, excellent wines, vegetables, still has the original taste of the overproduced in our Western society long gone days, they also feel good about the food problem. Everywhere in rural markets where people sell their own grown produce: fruit, vegetables, mushrooms and nuts. Do you remember tasting something simple like broccoli or potatoes, so beautiful and rich, nor want nor need any sauce on it, it tastes like though? And the meat, Slovaks, like their meat and there's really not all varieties of fresh cut along with the lack of fresh poultry.
But what really won over the Dutch couple Bath, a great way to stop and / or get well. Spas are a natural health ingrained tradition in Slovakia. Doctors here are highly skilled, in fact, the majority of the people we met, engineers, chemists, physicians, because education was free for all the communist days. Their approach to health problems is a natural and sustainable. Instead of chemical medicines, a spa and go spend a few days or weeks, depending on your medical problem. Each spa is a specialty: for example, skin, heart or respiratory problems. Prices, which includes accommodation, meals and treatment is very affordable.
What a great way to stay or get well again, together with clean air and beautiful surroundings spa locations, the body and the mind receives a great health boost. After a day spa, they thought it would be a great country to settle. They were constantly pleasantly surprised "yes" to the position they were faced with everything and every question they had even civil servants were immediately taken to their questions and dealt with seriously, so unlike the one faced in countries such as France approach.
Slovakia will be converted to the euro over three years, so prices did go up. Slovakia is one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, exceeding expectations, despite the general slowdown. Slovakia may be too expensive for expatriates to buy the place, but for those who had the foresight to buy now, they should do very well, thank you!