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Camping Šobec and the birth of the Sava: a 7 km morning run

Not every recording is a summit day. This one is a flat, easy 7-kilometer morning run — a shade under an hour, with plenty of photo stops — looping the rivers around Camping Šobec near Lesce, in the Upper Carniola corner of Slovenia between Bled and Radovljica.

It's an ordinary run in an extraordinary spot: the loop threads the exact place where the Sava is born — the confluence where the Sava Dolinka and the Sava Bohinjka meet and become one river — with the Julian Alps and the Karavanke ranged around the horizon.

Distance7.0 km
Elevation gain50 m
ActivityRunning
Duration52 min

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Route map of Camping Šobec and the birth of the Sava: a 7 km morning run drawn from the recorded GPS points on an OpenStreetMap basemap
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Where the Sava is born

Two rivers come down out of the mountains here: the Sava Dolinka, 45 km from the Upper Sava Valley beneath Bled, and the Sava Bohinjka, 41 km from Lake Bohinj under the Jelovica plateau. Just below Radovljica, at Lancovo, they meet — and from that confluence flows the Sava, the main water artery of central Slovenia and, far downstream, one of the great rivers of the Balkans. This run crosses the Bodeški most over the clear Sava Bohinjka, passes the old Bodešče gauging station (that thin cable strung across the water in the photos is its measuring line), and follows the young Sava along its first kilometers. The Bohinjka is reckoned one of the cleanest and most beautiful rivers in the country, and it looks it.

Slovenia's biggest campsite, in a pine forest

Camping Šobec sits right on this triangle of water and woodland. Spread over about 15 hectares of shady pine forest between the Sava Dolinka and a small lake — Šobčev bajer, barely 2.6 hectares and three meters deep — it is the largest campsite in Slovenia and a five-star one, voted the country's best large campsite in 2024, with a Blue Flag for its river beach. In the morning, before the day-trippers arrive, its gravel tracks and river paths make a quiet, level running circuit; the run starts and ends here.

Clean water, wild fish, pebble beaches

The “Savske ribe” panel along the bank — a wooden frame hung with metal silhouettes of fish — is a small nature-trail marker, and it is earned: these are famous fly-fishing rivers, home to the marble trout and grayling that draw anglers from across Europe. Between the pools the water shelves into wide gravel and pebble beaches, the kind in the photos, where the Sava Dolinka runs shallow and cold over rounded stones. Flat, clear and cold even in July — a fine place to finish a run.

Why record a flat run

The elevation profile barely moves — a total range of under 30 meters across the whole loop — and that is exactly why it's worth showing: not every worthwhile track is a climb. The recorded line captures the precise 7 km, the real pace, and every photo dropped onto the map where it was taken, so the shape of an ordinary morning by the water is kept exactly. The GPX downloads with coordinates and relative times for anyone who wants to run the same loop.

About the place: Šobec, Lesce, Slovenia

Camping Šobec, near Lesce in the Upper Carniola (Gorenjska) region of Slovenia, is the country's largest campsite — around 15 hectares of pine forest between the Sava Dolinka river and a small bathing lake, the Šobčev bajer, midway between Bled and Radovljica. Just downstream, at Lancovo below Radovljica, the Sava Dolinka and the Sava Bohinjka join to form the Sava, the longest river of Slovenia; the surrounding waters are among the cleanest in the country and celebrated fly-fishing rivers for marble trout and grayling, ringed by the Julian Alps, the Karavanke and the Jelovica plateau.

The clear green Sava Bohinjka from the Bodeški most — one of the two rivers that meet nearby to form the Sava
1 · The clear green Sava Bohinjka from the Bodeški most — one of the two rivers that meet nearby to form the Sava
The young Sava flowing past Lancovo just below the confluence, reed banks in front and the wooded Jelovica slopes behind
2 · The young Sava flowing past Lancovo just below the confluence, reed banks in front and the wooded Jelovica slopes behind
A riverside “Savske ribe” nature panel hung with metal fish cut-outs — these are prized fly-fishing waters for marble trout and grayling
3 · A riverside “Savske ribe” nature panel hung with metal fish cut-outs — these are prized fly-fishing waters for marble trout and grayling
A pebble beach and boulder-lined bank on the Sava Dolinka near Camping Šobec
4 · A pebble beach and boulder-lined bank on the Sava Dolinka near Camping Šobec

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