Valley of 100 Waterfalls
Anabell, the fairy tale, begins in the Valley of 100 Waterfalls, an idyllic alpine valley surrounded by imposing mountain peaks. But don’t be fooled by the serenity of the valley - hidden within the forests and gorges and underneath the overhanging wall is a waterfall wonderland!
The Valley of 100 Waterfalls is the nickname for the real-life Log Koritnica Valley, a picturesque alpine valley in Triglav National Park. It is surrounded by 15 mountain peaks with elevations greater than 2,000 metres, including Mangart, Jalovec, and the long mountain ridge known as the Loška wall, which mountaineer Julius Kugy described as “the end of the world!”¹². More than 100 waterfalls of all shapes and sizes are hiding here, forged by wild streams winding their way down the mountains³. And in the event of heavy rain, it is a sight to behold as raging torrents of water tumble down each mountain face. In those moments, the serenity of the valley is no more as brazen boulders come crashing down all around.
Julius Kugy, Julijske Alpe V Podobi (Maribor: Obzorja, 1971), 269.
“… barring all progress southward, rose one of the most stupendous rocky walls that had ever met our eyes. Tier above tier it rose, crowned by a long serrated summit, and circling round eastward as if to attach itself to the Mangert on our left, whose height it almost equalled”. Josiah Gilbert & George Cheetham Churchill, The Dolomite Mountains (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), 220.
Ciril Velkovrh, Sto slapov v dolini Loške Koritnice (Ljubljana: Planinska zveza Slovenije, 1998).
