Kočevje (Rudnik) - Lake Kočevje (circular path around the lake)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Kočevje, where from the traffic light crossroad we continue in the direction of Šalka vas and Rog (Baza 20). Still before is Kočevje ends signs for Lake Kočevje (Rudniško jezero) point us to the left on a side road, on which we drive to the parking lot, which is situated by the lake.

Path description:
Further is described circular path around the lake, which runs in counterclockwise direction.
From the parking lot, we at first walk to coast of the lake, where we step on a wide macadam path, and we follow it to the right. We at first walk without changes in altitude, and then we quickly get to the main beach of the lake.
At the main beach of the lake, we go a little right and for some time we slightly ascend, so that we go away from the coast (by the coast continues few paths, which are further quite overgrown). The path ahead leads us by the edge of the village Šalka vas, where we go past the abandoned structures of former brown coal mine, and the path slowly turns more to the left, and at the crossings we also follow left paths. When the path passes on the northern side of the lake, we walk by plantation of "old fruit species - gene bank Jezero Kočevje", and after the plantation we choose the left path, which descends a little and gets closer to the coast of Lake Kočevje (Rudniško jezero). Next follows few minutes of walking on a macadam path, and then we reach an asphalt road, on which we continue to the parking lot, where the described path begins and ends.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in January 2020.