Name: Why Slovenia Is The BEST Vacation Spot You've Never Heard Of
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Okay, it's clear you don't know anything about Slovenia.

My name is Noemi and I'm from Koper, right here on the Slovenian coast.

I'm an athlete, but I also run my own sock company.

Every morning I wake up and check the conditions on the sea below our house.

The view is spectacular from our tiny coast.

You can see the Blue Adriatic Sea and the highest mountain Triglo in the background, which is covered by snow in the wintertime and embraced by the sun during the summer.

The country may be small, but there is so much to see, discover and experience.

A lot of people don't even know where Slovenia is.

It sits between Italy and Croatia, and this is my favorite road on the coast.

This is the old road that connects Italy, runs through Slovenia and goes all the way to Croatia.

And you can buy this thing in like three hours.

Along the way you'll see my favorite part of Slovenia, the coast, and pass through three beautiful towns.

In Koper, you will definitely feel the Venetian vibe while passing through tiny streets with all these beautiful architecture and details.

So right now we're on the main square of Koper.

If you're ever here, you should definitely check out Tito Turk and all these beautiful buildings around, like Praetorian Palace, Loja and Bell Tower.

As you can tell by its name, it was an island once, and you can still feel the Fisherman vibes.

Isola is a super laid-back coastal town, but don't let that fool you.

If you're a seafood lover, then the restaurant at the Marina Hotel is for you.

They have fruits of the sea in every shape and form.

So our last stop is Piran, my favorite coastal town.

You will surely fall in love with tiny streets, vivid colors, friendly locals and fish restaurants on the riva.

During the summer, you can even spot dolphins, if you get lucky.

Climb on the Piran walls to check the magnificent view and the church at the top.

It's not really accessible by car, so a bike or a skateboard is the way to travel.

Don't forget to get down to Tertini Square.

After a long day of exploring, you definitely want to stop and eat something good.

Frito Limpio Cantini has a great menu right in the city center.

Then treat yourself to Reforsk and Malvasia, the most well-known type of wine from the coast.

At a little wine shop like this, bring your own glass to try the wine for just 1.15 euro and watch the sun go down.

A big part of life and travel here in Slovenia is food and wine, and no one knows it better than our country's most famous chef,

I am a chef of Hiša Franko, a restaurant in Kobarid in the western part of Slovenia.

I am proud to be a part of a generation that worked hard and was able to put Slovenia on the world gastronomic map.

People often ask me what is Slovenian cuisine.

I believe that Slovenia is all about the micro-regionality and it's all about the green.

It is one of the most important and it's all about the green.

It is one of the greenest countries in the world and you can see it and it reflects in our cuisine.

It is not only about the restaurants, it's about the way people live.

We are a nation of farms, of the gardens, of the fields.

That love is reflecting throughout our kitchen and our menus.

And here we are, half an hour driving from Hiša Franko in a different landscape with a different culture, even different Slovenian dialect.

Having incredible white wine, but also incredible food with a twist because it's not alpine anymore.

It has that beautiful Mediterranean twist.

Slovenia is the motherland to some of the best organic and biodynamic wine producers in the world.

Biodynamic wines, it means that we don't use any pesticides, herbicides, fungicides.

Basically any chemicals in the vineyards and also in the wine cellar.

It sounds like it's a new trendy thing, but it's basically how in Slovenia we used to do it.

Like my grand-grandfather did wine this way.

That's what wine should be, fermented grape juice with nature, not chemicals.

Ljubljana is actually an incredibly beautiful, small city.

It's probably one of the smallest capitals in the world, like 250,000 inhabitants.

What is beautiful, we all know each other.

So when you walk on the street, you just say, hi, hi, hi, how are you?

When you think Slovenia, you think of the market in Ljubljana with all the small farmers and producers which are coming, especially on Fridays,

Saturdays and Sundays when the market is alive.

After shopping on the farmer's market, you can on Fridays visit my favorite and far best food market, not only in town, but in Slovenia.

And I will let the owner explain you all about it.

Welcome to Open Kitchen, the greenest food market in Europe, where we recycle everything, where we have no plastic and every stand serves something completely different.

Slovenian pork ribs in white wine sauce, and the amazing filled paprika.

Buzara, from the Obala region, which means the coastline of Slovenia.

This is gostilna mihovec that are making their famous veal liver.

Mojca is a third or fourth generation mojca?

You'll find here everything from the mountain to the river to the sea.

Now we are at the Three Bridges, probably the most attractive and famous part of Ljubljana.

What I really love about Ljubljana is that it's really green, it has lots of parks.

One of the best places to have lunch in Ljubljana is Tabar, a small place in Old City Center with a super talented chef,

Jakob Pinter, who I would say is like one of the stars of the new generation of Slovenian chefs.

Cooking straight from the market, people are super surprised when they come to Slovenia.