The New Year's jump into the sea is an event on New Year's Day that you simply cannot miss! It is an event that has become as big as Triglav. Hundreds of participants, thousands of curious people. And just as every true Slovene must be at Triglav at least once in their life, every true Slovene must jump into the sea at least once in their life on January 1st. The next opportunity will be on January 1, 2016 at 2 p.m. in Portorož on the central beach. The event will be held for the 12th time!
Are you up for the challenge? 12. New Year's jump into the sea is a great opportunity to wash off the old year and enter a fresh one the year 2016. New Year's jump into the sea, which he has been organizing since 2005 sports association Sokol from Ljubljana and has been ever since the first event in Slovenia in the calendar year, it is becoming a bigger and more important event, equaled by just the right amount of audacity with a hike to Triglav.
Jumping into the cold sea is not only an exhibition adventure, because it also has medicinal effects; it has a beneficial effect on well-being, metabolism and blood circulation, washes away fatigue and raises the threshold of our resistance to disease. Every year, the event has more active participants (on January 1, 2015 there were 330) and spectators (on January 1, 2015 already 3 thousand) and it will slowly central beach in Portorož became too small for all the curious and eager to jump into the water on New Year's Day.
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He will also traditionally accompany the 12th New Year's jump into the sea a varied accompanying program, including an active warm-up with fun props, which this year (or next year), if the weather is as it has been so far, may not be necessary at all. And what kind of sea temperature can we expect? Usually this has around January 1st 10 degrees Celsius. You will be able to register for the event on January 1, 2016 from 12 noon.
More information:
novoletskokvmorje.eu
