Livek - Monte Mataiur/Matajur

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Tolmin, and then continue driving towards Kobarid. When we get to the settlement of Idrsko, we turn left in the direction of the settlement of Livek. When we drive up to Livek, we park by the NOB monument and multifunctional facility.
B) From Kobarid we drive towards Tolmin, but only to the settlement of Idrsko, where we turn right in the direction of the settlement of Livek. When we drive up to Livek, we park by the NOB monument and multifunctional facility.

Path description:
From the NOB monument we walk to the nearby crossroad, where we leave the road and continue right in the direction of the marked path to Matajur (left Kolovrat, Nebesa and Livške Ravne, straight Italy and on the road to Avsa, Perati...). Further on, we first ascend the stairs; above the village the path turns into mostly low forest and a strip of bushes. Occasionally somewhat steeper, the path higher turns left and brings us to the road, where it flattens. There follow a few dozen steps of easy walking and we arrive at the church of St. Peter and Paul.
At the church we go left and quickly arrive at the hamlet of Perati, where the path leads past a few houses; behind the settlement, from the crossroad we continue right uphill. Further on, the panoramic road, which runs between pastures, turns semicircularly left and brings us, before the start of the settlement Avsa, to a crossroad from which we continue right along the marked path, at first still along the road towards Matajur (slightly left village Avsa and tourist farm Jelenov breg below Matajur, straight parking lot above village Avsa and old path).
The road soon turns into a cart track, which begins to ascend moderately and leads us past several older, partly already ruined huts. Higher, from the cart track we switch to a footpath, which temporarily ascends steeply and crosses a pasture fence. The path soon flattens, the forest thins out more and more, so beautiful views of the surrounding mountains open up to us more and more frequently. After a while the path widens again into a cart track, which after a few steps turns into a forest road, where at the crossroad we continue left (right shepherd's hut on Idrska planina), at the next crossroad we go straight (right Svinska planina) and arrive at the upper part of Idrska planina, where the hut Konjarska guta stands, which is just a few steps off the path.
Here another of the many possible approaches to Mrzli vrh branches off to the left; we, however, soon go right from the road onto the marked path, which then quickly reaches another road, where we join the old path from Avsa.
We follow the road to the right along it to the nearby marked junction, where we go right in the direction towards Matajur (straight Dom na Matajure).
Further on, the path begins to ascend again over a partly grassy slope, from which increasingly beautiful views of the surrounding mountains open up to us. Higher, as the path gradually passes onto the northern slopes, the path from the village Svino also joins us from the right; we continue towards Matajur. A few minutes of traversing ascent follow and we already arrive at the junction below Glava, where the "Slovenian route" to Matajur and the path by which we can reach Visoka glava continue straight; we, however, continue left uphill and quickly ascend to the panoramic eastern ridge of Matajur, where the path from Italy (starting point Mašera / Masseris) also joins us.
We continue along the mentioned ridge, along which we ascend gently to moderately along the state border between Slovenia and Italy. A few more minutes of increasingly panoramic walking follow and we arrive at the summit of Matajur, from where a beautiful view also opens towards the west.
Livek - Perati 0:20, Perati - Avsa 0:10, Avsa - Idrska planina 1:10, Idrska planina - Matajur 1:20.

On the way: Sv. Peter in Pavel (Perati) (812m), Avsa (860m), Idrska planina (1250m)