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In the main hall there were about 50 musicians paying folk songs together, mostly very young which was great to see as they will be keeping the music alive into the next generation. We headed to the village of Terchova in the Mala Fatra hills to catch a Slovak folk festival. Folk tradition and music is very much alive in Slovakia and people seem to be very keen to keep it alive. In the more rural villages there are a lot of farmers living off the land in quite a simple way. There are a number of communities around who are purposely trying to live and farm as the generations before them did. This is quite a contrast to the flash cars and shopping centres we have seen in the bigger towns.
Wildlife In the guesthouse we stayed we were chatting to one of the locals, Vlado, over a glass of wine. Managed to talk to him in German for about 2 hours allbeit with a lot of hand symbols and some bits of confusion.
Vlado explained that he dosen't need to know english here as most of the tourists are from Germany, Austria, Swiss of neighbouring countires such as Poland and Czech Rep.
Vlado is a tour guide and forrest ranger and all round bush man. I was asking him about fishing and which bait is best to use and raised
Singing Folk
The music and songs are a big part of the folk tradition and we were looking forward to seeing some of the slovak music. his hands and explained how he just uses his bare hands to catch fish.
Vlado also told us there are a lot of Wolfs, Lynx ans some Bears in the forrest and showed us some pictures on footprints on his digital camera to prove this. I'm glad we found this out after we'd hiked as I may have found it dificult to convince Shilpa to go hiking here!!
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