It feels so good to wake up and not needing to load bike and make/organize, but just slowly get up and go to ready made breakfast. Breakfast was better than in the polish hotel, it was standing table - but quite limited to a few things.
Headed right out after the breakfast towards Tatranska lomnica, about 3km walk downwards mostly in mostly sunny weather. Found the cable car station from the northern part of the ski resort village and took one to Skalnate pleso, 1751 meters above sea level. The views along the cable car ride were already great, and even greater up at Skalnate pleso - also the air was chillier. There was another cable car from Skalnate pleso to the peak of the mountain Lomnicky stit, which I decided to not to take because of thick cloud starting just above Skalnate pleso station, and also because of really salty price on it. Climbed however for a while up one ridge line to get nice viewpoint to surrounding valleys and their devastated forests. There was windy storm in 2004, which felled most of the forests on higher slopes.
Back down in Tatranska lomnica had some unusual thing (to me) occur; there was a public toilet that coated 20 cents to use - well that's not unusual really, but the lady in a box collecting the 20 cents was pretty odd sight. After recovering from this exotic experience, took the electric train to Stary smokovec about 6km away. Didn't do much in Stary smokovec apart from eating and fruitless attempt to gain knowledge of camping sites in Slovakia from information center.
Rest of the day passed mostly doing not much more than marking camping sites to newly bought map of Slovakia, that I was able to find online. Also had some relaxation after hard doing not much day.
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