Krog - Vrh križa

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Koper highway, take the Črni Kal exit. From Črni Kal, continue driving on the old road towards the coast, but drive along it only to the next somewhat larger intersection, where we turn left towards the Sočerga border crossing. On the mentioned road, we drive past the settlement Kubed to the village Gračišče, where at the intersection we turn left towards Rakitovec, Movraž and Smokvica. From Gračišče we drive to the village Movraž, where we turn right towards Dvori. Before the village Dvori we come to the next intersection, where we continue sharply right (left Dvori), and we drive a few more 100 m along the road to the mountain signposts, which we see by the road. We park at a suitable place by the mountain signposts.

Path description:
On the opposite side of the road from the signposts for the natural bridge and the church of St. Kvirik, we notice the beginning of the footpath that leads to Lačna. At first we walk on a gentle cart track, or wide path, which quickly turns into a dense belt of bushes, then the blazes direct us slightly right onto a steep path, along which we quickly ascend to a wide and partly rocky cart track. We then continue the ascent for some time along the mentioned cart track, which first rises above the village Dvori, then gradually turns somewhat to the left, where higher up it flattens completely. There follows a short crossing of panoramic grassy slopes, from which a nice view opens onto Movraško valo and the village Movraž.

The cart track a little further brings us to another cart track, where at the junction we continue right, and we ascend along it to the nearby asphalt road.

We only cross the mentioned road and continue in the same direction, continuing the ascent along the macadam road. The macadam road further leads us across karst meadows surrounded by numerous pines, which gradually narrows and higher joins a wider macadam road. We follow the road to the left, and it quickly flattens. The road, with a view of Lipnik and Kavčič, quickly brings us to the next intersection, where we continue along the left road. There follows walking along a gentle road, which a little further crosses the edge belt of a pine forest, then brings us to a completely unvegetated plateau-like terrain. Here a path unmarked towards Tri učke branches off to the left, and we follow the macadam road for another approximately 15 minutes, or to the marked junction, where the marked path to Slavnik branches off to the right.

From the junction we continue further along the poorer macadam road in the direction of Kuk, which quickly turns into a wide cart track, along which we ascend in a gentle rise to the extensive summit slope of Kuk, where the next marked junction is.

Here we continue in the direction of Kuk, to which we have only a minute of easy and panoramic walking left.

From the top we return to the last junction and continue in the direction of Lačna, and then first gently, then for a short time more steeply descend. Lower the path flattens, then it slowly stops descending, or later begins to ascend gently. Somewhat higher the path brings us to the slopes of Krog, whose summit we bypass on the right side. The path further leads us across a medium-sized clearing, after which it enters a belt of pine forest. From here there follows another few minutes of walking, and the path brings us to Vrh križa.

Starting point - Kuk 2:50, Kuk - Vrh križa 0:35.

On the way: Kuk (498m)

Trip can be extended to: Krog , Lačna ( 35 min) , Tri učke , Veliki Gradež