All you need

If you decided to use our services and join us, you have to make sure you have everything necessary.

However, you need not to forget you will be carrying all your stuff in your backpack, so avoid bringing any unnecessary things.

You must have the basic tourist equipment:

1. trekking boots
2. trekking backpack
3. clothes for summer days, but also ones that will protect you from rain
4. extra clothes
5. raincoat or a poncho
6. sleeping bag
7. tent
8. lamp
9. sunglasses and sun lotion
10. dishes to prepare your meal on

On the top of the trekking equipment it is vital that you are in good physical shape. Some of the tours are rather challenging – remember, you will trek over tens kilometers. Unless you are in a good shape, you may have some problems with that and slow the advance of the whole group.

You can bring along:

1. camera
2. binoculars
3. trekking sticks
4. trekking portable stove

It is not necessary to bring the following:

1. food
2. water
3. maps

 

In order to choose the right clothes, you might find the information about the climate and weather in Slovakia quite useful:

Slovakia lies in a mild weather area. There are four seasons there. An average winter temperature is -2°C with January the coldest month of the year. In summer the average temperature is approx. 21°C, but the temperature often exceeds 30°C. Don’t forget: the higher altitude, the stronger sun intensity; without a sun lotion and a hat you may suffer from sunburn and/or sunstroke. The best time for trekking in Slovak mountains is June to October because of warm temperature and mostly sunny weather. The most stable weather is in August and September. In summer the sudden storms may occur.

You will buy all necessary food either while trekking or you will eat at a cottage or a restaurant. Your guide will make sure you can buy everything necessary and will inform you in advance how much food to buy.  You will also be reminded where you can replenish your water supplies or to buy some more drinking water and how much of it you need.

 

Approx. prices of food in Slovakia:

1. bread – 1 Euro
2. instant soup – 1 Euro
3. 1 kg salami – 5 Euro
4. canned meat – 1 Euro
5. 1 kg pasta – 0,6 Euro
6. 2 liters of mineral water – 0,6 Euro
7. 1 kg apples – 0,8 Euro
8. chocolate – 1 Euro
9. biscuits – 1 Euro

Prices of food at tourist cottages and restaurants:

1. soup – 1,5 Euro
2. main course – 4 Euro
3. beer – 1 Euro