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About Tomke

Hi, I'm Tomke.
I hunt hidden gems.

Licensed tour guide. Canyoning guide. Lifelong collector of places the guidebooks forgot to mention.

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Tomke jumping high in the air above a vast white salt flat under a blue sky

Give me a map and I'll find the road that isn't on it.

I grew up in the Savinjska region, where the Alps run out into hop fields and hardly anyone thinks to stop. Then came eight years in Ljubljana while I studied, whenever I wasn't somewhere abroad.

Wherever I land, I go looking for the corners most people walk straight past: the bakery with no sign, the waterfall at the end of an unmarked path. Tomke Trails is how I share the ones in the country I know best.

What I do

Three hats.
One obsession.

A small group gathered by an alpine lake below jagged peaks
THE PAPERWORK

Licensed tour guide

Officially qualified to show you around. The stories, the shortcuts and the best coffee stop come free.

A grinning canyoner in a red wetsuit and helmet floating on his back in a pool in a mossy gorge
THE ADRENALINE

Canyoning guide

My summers belong to the canyons around Bled and Bohinj, guiding with 3glav Adventures. Ropes, rock, ice-clear water, and you grinning at the bottom.

Someone in a red jacket crouching on rocks below a thin waterfall in a rocky gorge
THE PASSION

Hidden-gem hunter

My favourite part of any trip is the bit nobody planned. I've made a habit of finding it, then going back for more.

Before the trails

I've been the curious traveller too.

Backpack, bad map, too many questions. That's exactly why I know what turns a good day abroad into the one you tell stories about.

STUDY EXCHANGESFive. Yes, five.Portugal, the Azores, Hungary, Czechia and Peru. I kept saying "just one more".
BY BIKESlovenia → VarnaPedalled all the way to the Black Sea. Legs still remember.
ON FOOTKyrgyz mountainsTrekked high valleys where the map ran out.
ON THE ROADSouth AmericaBuses, borders and a lot of happy wrong turns.
Life on the trail

Little moments, big adventures.

Tomke with his bike, arms raised, in front of the giant VARNA letters at night
Made it. Varna, by bike.
A grinning canyoner in a red wetsuit and helmet floating on his back in a pool in a mossy gorge
Office hours in Bohinj
Tomke with a big backpack smiling and making an OK sign on a trail through a green mountain valley
Kyrgyzstan, where the map ran out
Tomke crouching on a path above Machu Picchu, with Inca terraces and cloud-wrapped peaks behind
Exchange no. 5: Peru
Tomke holding a surfboard on a sandy beach
The Azores, between lectures
Tomke lifting his bike above his head in the upper Savinja Valley
Home turf, Savinjska
Tomke in a flower garland drinking a beer at a town festival, two cans of Laško on the table
A spot I'm not telling you about (yet)
Tomke raising a glass of white wine on a terrace at sunset
Golden hour, always
A day with me

Small group.
Big detours.
Zero rush.

  • A handful of people, never a coach full.
  • A local who knows the back roads and the people along them.
  • Time to actually stop, taste and look around.
  • At least one moment where you ask, "how is this not famous?"

Ready to get a little lost?

Join the waitlist and tell me which trail you'd take first. Or just say hi at hello@tomketrails.com.

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