Era of the Slovakian castles started in the 13-th century when almost one third of population what lived in territory of today Slovakia has been wiped out during invasion of Mongols.
From then the kings and aristocracy started to build castles in every strategic location throughout whole country. In total it was about 300 catles and fortresess.
Hi Ondrej, thanks for the trip.
From left to right:
Seamus, James, Baggots, Ondrej, Mickey, Declan, Ray, Paul.
Welcome drink and final lunch at Meštiansky pivovar (Brewery) in Bratislava with my tourists from Thailand.
It was my pleasure to guide 4 lads on post socialistic tour with Authenticslovakia tour agency. 2 hours we spent driving and visiting places like World war 2 memorial called Slavin. Heaps of snow in February didn’t allow us to explore more former iron curtain at the end of town. But we had chance to explore other free outlooks on Bratislava. Interesting was outlook from hotel Bôrik. People during communistic regime could mostly look behind borders on the other side of Danube. While the borders was heavily guarded there was quite difficult to get travel permit.
One Sunday afternoon I took on the tour bunch of americans living in London. They decided come to Slovakia for weekend trip. After short meeting and introduction at SNP square in Bratislava
center I packed them into green Volkswagen Transporter. After 20 minutes of rolling on the highway towards Prague I took exit to Zohor. Continue reading
