Gojače - Školj Svetega Pavla above Vrtovin (past trough)

Access to starting point:
From the expressway or motorway Nova Gorica - Razdrto we take the exit Selo, then we continue driving on the parallel old road towards Ajdovščina. At the end of the settlement Selo we turn left and across the bridge over the motorway we drive to the nearby industrial zone. Here we continue straight, then we arrive at the intersection in Gojače, where we again continue straight. Further we drive past the cemetery, after which we continue slightly right, then at the next intersection, which is located just a little ahead of the nearby church, again slightly right. The road then rises somewhat more steeply and takes us past the last houses in the village to the hunting lodge LD Čaven (Gojače). We park on the large macadam parking lot near the hunting lodge.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the cart track, along which we notice signs for sv. Pavel, Kucelj and Čaven. The cart track, which goes into the forest right away, begins to ascend moderately and brings us in 5 minutes of walking to a marked junction, where the path from the neighbouring village Malovše joins from the left.
Here we continue right and ascend on the nicely followable but unmarked cart track, which continues through an increasingly sparse forest, to the next marked junction. This time we continue on the left cart track (right sv. Pavel and Vrtovin), along which there are signs for Kucelj and sv. Pavel. Just a few dozen meters higher we join a wider cart track and follow it to the right (left Črniče). Further on, we ascend for approximately 10 minutes on the said cart track, then we arrive at the next junction, where the signs for Kucelj direct us right onto a somewhat narrower cart track, to which soon from the right the path joins, by which we would have come if a little lower we had continued in the direction of sv. Pavel and Vrtovin. Further on we traverse to the right for some time, then the path brings us to a larger trough. From here we continue for a short time through a belt of bushes, then the path brings us to the place where we continue right in the direction of sv. Pavel (left Kucelj). The path ahead ascends through a belt of forest, then levels out and brings us to the chapel of sv. Pavel.

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