Kebelj - Sveti Trije kralji

Access to starting point:
We drive to Oplotnica (to here from the Štajerska motorway exit Slovenske Konjice or Slovenska Bistrica - south), then first follow the signs for Osankarica, then for the settlement Kebelj. When we arrive in Kebelj from the center of the settlement, we turn left towards the cemetery, next to which we then park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which leads us on the upper northern side of the cemetery, and when after approximately 50 meters the road ends we continue right on a marked path (left - Oplotnica).
The path ahead leads us on a marked cart track which before the entrance into the forest turns right and continues by the edge of the forest, from the mentioned cart track, blazes point us to the left on a narrow cart track which continues through the forest. Through the forest, we follow the blazes, and when the path turns a little to the right, after a shorter crossing from the right joins also the other path from the settlement Kebelj.
Here we go left and we quickly get to the ruins of Kebelj castle or Castle Zajec.
We bypass the ruins on the left side and we follow the blazes to the nearby asphalt road, where we go straight upwards. Only a little further, the asphalt road on which we continue turns right, and to the left the path branches off towards Osankarica (path Kebeljska transverzala). We leave the asphalt road only a little further, where signs for Črno jezero lake point us to the left into the forest. Next follows a shorter ascent through the forest and then past a lot of litter we reach the nearby homestead (from the opposite direction there is also a warning for dangerous dog). At the homestead, the road becomes asphalted and we quickly return on a somewhat wider asphalt road, on which we continue the ascent. After a few minutes, the blazes point us to the left on a grassy cart track, on which we are ascending by the edge of the forest, and higher past the house we again step on the asphalt road which brings us to the next marked junction.
We continue right in the direction of the Three Kings and Črno jezero lake (left - Črno jezero lake - path past Kos) and we continue on the road to a crossroad near the NOB monument.
From the crossroad, we go right towards the access path, and at the sign for dead-end street we go left on a marked footpath which continues through the forest. Next follows approximately 20 minutes of ascent through the forest, where we follow the blazes, and then we reach a road which we follow for some 10 steps to the right, where we get to Hotel Jakec, above which there is the church of the Holy Three Kings.
Kebelj - Castle Zajec 0:20, Castle Zajec - Three Kings 1:20.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in April 2022.

On the way: Kebelj castle (Castle Zajec) (813m)