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Photo: David Paloch (Caroig), CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
A long valley with the ruins on Blatnica castle.
Gader Valley is a long valley in the Greater Fatra Range in Central Slovakia. It is accessible from the village of Blatnica. The valley is the gateway to the peaks of Tlstá and Ostrá. Its upper part, from the merger with the Selenec Valley, is named Dedošová. In Gader Valley, there are almost all of the protected species of animals and plants that occur throughout the Great Fatra: 3,000 species of invertebrates, 110 species of birds, and 60 mammalian species. The Tlstá mountain complex was declared a National Nature Reserve in 1972.
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A densely forested karst valley. In places, lime and dolomite rocks are visible, however the best-known part of the valley is the rock window at its lower part.
The highest peak of the range.
The best view of the southern mountains: Kremnické vrchy, Poľana, Vtáčnik.