High Tatras Mountains

We left the hotel and drove the hour and a half to the High Tatras. We found the village where the house was and found the woman with the key as well without any problems. After settling in at the house and having lunch in a local restaurant we decided to go for a short walk down the lane and up into the fields. As we were walking up we noticed a few cows int he fields. We also noticed there was a fence keeping the cows in but that there was a section on the fence that was down and thereore the cows could get out. We didn't think much of it since they were only cows. As we kept walking and were getting near the open section of fencing we noticed that one one of the "cows" was coming towards us and as we walked the "cows" pace increase to a trot. We wuickly called Sofia back to us and realized that this "cow" was not a cow but a bull! We quickly started walking back down the path. As we were walking back and looking over our shoulders the bull stopped and bellowed at us! I couldn't believe it. I was happy that he had stopped advancing on us and we had a good laugh about it when we were no longer near him. Needless to say we didn't walk up that path again. The next morning we headed up into the mountains to Starý Smokovec, the central resort in the High Tatras. We took the funicular railway up to Hrebienok where we got off and hiked to some beautiful waterfalls. The entire hike took us about an hour. Near the end of our hike was a restaurant were we enjoyed lunch looking at the beautiful mountains peaks. After lunch we took the funicular down to the bottom of the mountain and then we drove a couple peaks over to Štrbské Pleso, a beautiful mountain lake. We rented a rowboat and went out on the lake for a little while and then we took a walk around the lake (about 2.5km). It was a full day and we were all tired. We stopped and had pizza for dinner and then headed back to the cottage. It was a wonderful time in the High Tatras mountains. I wish we had more time to explore there since it is such a beautiful place. We headed home the next day and luckily the trip was a much faster seven and a half hour drive.