Active tourism Ski resort Mariborsko Pohorje
Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.
On the north-east slopes of Pohorje, that seems touches Maribor-the second largest city in Slovenia, it’s situated Mariborsko Pohorje, ski resort on gentle slopes who’s highest peak has 1347m of highness.
Mariborsko Pohorje is known for it’s white, sparkling slopes and it’s numerous ski paths and walking paths with a magnificent view of Maribor and it’s surroundings.
In a range of 336-1347m of highness and on a surface of 220 hectare offers a total of 40km of ski paths which are covered with snow from middle Decembre till middle March. There are 21.5 km of easy ski paths, 16 km of intermediate ski paths and 3.5 km of ski paths for expert skiiers, and there are 36km of Nordic skiing paths and 6 km of sledginig ski-paths. Here is sittuated also the longest ski path in Europe for night skiing-7km, and leads from the top of the ski-tresort till the valley of Maribor. In an ideal winter condition and with a help of artifical snow it’s possible to spread the snow on the paths that reach till the Maribor valley...