Ponikva/Hotunje - Sveti Ilija (Spodnje Dramlje) (via Sveta Uršula)

Access to starting point:
A) With a train...Train station Ponikva.
B) With a car...We leave the highway at exit Dramlje and continue in the direction of Šentjur. After three kilometers at the roundabout Dole we continue in the direction of the settlement Ponikva and after approximately seven kilometers we reach the railway track. In front of the railway crossing we can park safely. The train station is on the other side of the tracks and a little to the right.

Path description:
On the asphalt road which goes along the stream we continue in the direction of the settlement Zagaj pri Ponikvi. After about a kilometer and a half, the asphalt pavement changes into a macadam and we follow it through the forest. Soon we reach a smaller settlement of houses and with good markings we continue through the yard of one of the homesteads on a meadow path. The meadow path passes into a forest path, then leads us past several ponds and through the forest we follow a little higher to the chapel. From the chapel we continue through Razbor and at the first crossing we go left and soon right downwards below the road viaduct, where we also cross a smaller watercourse, and we pass to the other side of the highway. We continue through a meadow, through the yard of a homestead and along a wooden fence with horses we reach the more solid part of Vodule. From the flat part of Vodule follows an ascent on an asphalt road and further on narrower paths amid vineyards/vineyard cottages. Higher we reach a crossing, right to Sv. Uršula and the Dom PD Dramlje hut in the former parish house. Of course, because of the proximity of good 100 meters we make a visit and further we go downwards or left from the crossing into the valley behind Dramlje. On the asphalt road which is constantly descending and is easy to follow we soon reach the church of Sv. Ilija, which is by the path on the right and is our destination for today.

On the way: Sv. Uršula nad Dramljami (464m)