Rinka Waterfall, the end of the Logar Valley

What Rinka Waterfall is like

The tourist board places it at the head of Logar Valley, below the two-thousand-metre peaks of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, and counts it among Slovenia’s highest waterfalls. At 90 m, it’s the best known of the valley’s many falls and a regular destination for hikers and day-trippers.

Where the water comes from

From the Okrešelj area above the falls, high in the mountains. That’s why it changes so much with the seasons. The tourist board explains that it reaches its greatest grandeur in spring and autumn, when more water comes down. In summer, with less flow, the appeal is the cool of the forest and the shade of the rock walls.

Rinka frozen

In winter the waterfall freezes and becomes a popular ice-climbing spot. It’s an activity for experienced people with the right gear, or with a mountain guide. For everyone else, the valley offers cross-country skiing, sledging and ski touring at that time of year, and the frozen fall is still a striking sight from below.

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What else to see in Logar Valley

The Trail through Logar Valley is the best way to arrive at an easy pace, as it crosses the landscape park past rare flowers, wooden granaries and farms. Solčava’s other two valleys, Robanov kot and Matkov kot, are close by, and Solčava has the Rinka Centre, with local produce and Middle Triassic fossils from these mountains. From the waterfall area, routes also lead up to the huts and summits of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps.

Rinka and Slovenia’s other waterfalls

The tourist board’s waterfall list includes several famous names. Boka, in the Soča valley, has a total height of 144 m and is the country’s highest-volume fall. Peričnik, on the way to the Vrata valley, drops 52 m and you can walk behind it. Martuljek totals 110 m over three cascades. Rinka stands out for its setting, at the end of a glacial valley closed off by two-thousand-metre walls, which makes the walk to it as much a part of the visit as the fall itself.

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When to go and fitting it in

I’d make it the main goal of a morning spent in the valley, wearing proper walking shoes and taking water, and leave the afternoon for lunch at a farm. If you like waterfalls, my guide to waterfalls in Slovenia has the rest.

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