Zazid - Veliki Gradež

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 crossroads, where we turn left towards the border crossing Sočerga. We drive for a short time on the mentioned road, then signs for Predloka, Loka, Bezovica, Podpeč, Zanigrad, Zazid and Rakitovec direct us left onto a somewhat narrower local road. Further we drive to Bezovica, where at the smaller crossroads in the middle of the village we continue left towards Podpeč. Further we drive through Podpeč (the road through the mentioned settlement is very narrow) to the village Zazid, where we park on the parking lot by the sports field.

Path description:
We start at the sports field, where we first walk between the sports field and some sort of small grandstand. On the other side of the field the path goes among bushes, through which it starts to ascend lightly. After a few minutes of ascent through bushes we step on a macadam road, on which we continue the ascent, and from it a nice view opens up on Jampršnik. The road quickly brings us to a small crossroads, where to the right branches off the road towards the ridge of Jerebine (Jerebine is the ridge between Hrastovlje and Zazid - the highest peak of the ridge is Zazidski Brgod 443 m), and we continue straight on the road, which gradually starts to descend. The road quickly flattens, and then continues along extensive pastures. A little further the road turns slightly to the right and crosses a pasture fence, and right at that spot we leave it and continue straight on the marked cart track. We continue on the moderately ascending cart track, to which a little further joins also the marked path from Slavnik, Ž.P. Zazid and the path from the starting point Martin dol. Here too we continue straight and continue the ascent in the direction of Lačna. A little further, with good visibility, a view opens up on the Alps, and the path then descends and joins a wider cart track. When we step on the mentioned cart track we continue left, and on it in less than 10 minutes we ascend to the panoramic ridge, just a few metres west of the peak Veliki Gradež.
Here we leave the marked path and in less than a minute of further walking we ascend to the panoramic peak.