Towards Veľká Javorina (source: Jana Liptáková)
“We could have easily gone to Biely Kríž above Bratislava’s Rača and not trekked 130 kilometres from Bratislava,” grumbled a friend of mine while driving his car on an early winter Saturday morning towards the White Carpathians. “There will be no vistas at all.”
Outside it was grey and chilly, with a view measuring just a few dozen metres. We headed to join a pair of friends, and their dachshund Bony, in Cetuna, a small village in the White Carpathians, and then hike the Veľká Javorina Hill together on the Slovak-Czech border.
What you will read in this article
Why it is worth setting off for a hike even when the weather is not ideal
Why Veľká Javorina is an iconic Hill both for Slovaks and Czechs
The legacy the Czechoslovak army left here
Where to get refreshments near Veľká Javorina
