As we were invited to a kite festival in Opuzen, Croatia, and pretty much the only thing about it we knew was that it is a cool, artist-friendly place in Dalmatia, on the bank of the river Neretva. And it’s true: Opuzen is a cool, artist-friendly town on the bank of Neretva, at the cusp … Read more
International endeavours of KAP Jasa – kite team Slovenia are on again! Snježana and Žare of the Croatian Kite Association invited us to a fantastic little kite festival in a fantastic place at the mouth of river Neretva near the town of Opuzen, Croatia. The town is simply amazing, the people are incredible, and their … Read more
Strmca is a rather remote village below the high plateau of Hrušica, between Postojna and Planina – a small settlement far from the beaten path, away from most of the routes, even ancient ones. It rests dreamy in the middle of a concave field; a flock of houses settled in two rows, oriented perpendicularly to … Read more
After a loooong time – spent mainly resting after the phenomenal experience of organising the International Kite Festival IKF Slovenia 2022 in Murska Sobota – we went back to our beloved Ljubljana Marshes. We wanted to get back into the KAP game, to check out the behaviour of a new delta (called Cindy in honour … Read more
As it is rather difficult to smoothly post our previous KAP adventures from our previous website, here is the link to them all: https://kapjasa.wixsite.com/kap-jasa/ All upcoming KAP and kite related stuff will of course be posted here. Enjoy these blasts from the past! 😉
During the lockdowns of the winter 2020/2021 we conceived and launched a social awareness kite-flying initiative called Strings of Hope, as kite lines can be, well, strings of hope. The idea is simple: you send us messages, Messages of Hope, and we and other kite flyers from all over the world fly them high into … Read more
Another pandemic year, difficult, hard for most and sad for (way too) many, is finally coming to an end. There are some flickering lights at the end of the tunnel and it seems we can expect at least a better, if not a good year. Hopefully. But it wasn’t all bad in 2021 … We … Read more
Upper Pivka valley is a strange, a bit remote, and a very beautiful place. A kite aerial view to the southeast across the Pivka valley towards Mt. Snežnik massif Stretching from the village of Šembije at the edge of Mt. Snežnik massif north towards Prestranek and Rakitnik, and ultimately the Postojna basin, the Upper Pivka … Read more
Bloke (pronounced /’blo:keh/, not /bləʊk/) is a high karst plateau some 30 km south as the crow flies from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It’s an enchanted and place, with lush meadows, deep forests, meandering streams and scattered small hamlets, where wildlife outnumber people: all the big beasts of Slovenia, the bear, the wolf and the lynx call … Read more
Imagine: a shallow, marshy lake; a clear stream flowing into it; a village: a flock of wooden houses, covered with dried grass, standing on hundreds of stilts, driven deep into the marshy soil on the bank of a stream. There are small gardens just behind the houses on the more solid ground; goats, sheep, and … Read more