Meet our team

Luka Esenko

As the founder of A2A Tours and the company’s leading tour guide, Luka has been a professional tour guide for many years, leading trips and expeditions in Slovenia and abroad. While working for several travel companies, he visited more than 40 different countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and this experience led to him partnering to establish Židana Marela in 2004. In 2008, he finally realized the creation of A2A Photo Tours.

A passion for photography seized Luka while he was travelling around the world. Travel photography is his main field of work, but as a nature lover, he is also a keen landscape and wildlife photographer. His photographs have been published in different travel-oriented magazines, books, and travel catalogues all over the world. As a regular conductor of field photography workshops, he will be able to provide you with useful photographic tips. As his knowledge about Slovenia is extensive, you will also gain in-depth knowledge of the country from him as well.

Dan Briski

Dan is a Slovenian wildlife and landscape photographer. Based in Ljubljana he spent last few years photographing animals and nature in the Julian Alps. As a mountaineer he explores Slovenian mountains and tries to capture pieces of wilderness with a photographic camera. Although the wildlife is his favourite photographic subject, he is also sports photographer and he works in other fields of photography as well. His work regularly appears in exhibitions home and abroad and has received several prizes at international salons of photography. Dan knows every rock of the Julian Alps and Soca river valley. With him as a guide great photos are almost guaranteed!

Ivan Esenko

Ivan is an expert naturalist and an avid photographer. His expertise is in garden ecology and animal behavior, and he has contributed several articles in different Slovenian newspapers and magazines on these topics. He is also the author of many books on garden ecology, nature, birds, and outdoor activities in nature. Ivan is a member of TheRoyal Society for the Protection of Birds, Birdlife Slovenia, and other such organisations. His enthusiasm for nature is endless and he is a living encyclopedia on the animal and plant life of Slovenia. Having him as a guide is a great advantage when experiencing untouched Slovenian nature.

Alojz Troha

A professional caver, Alojz Troha is an important member of our team. He is based in the Notranjska region and is a caretaker of Križna cave. There is no one who knows this unique cave better than him. Alojz is a member of Speleological association of Slovenia and has rich experience with many other Slovenian caves. Alojz is also an expert photographer who (naturally) specialises in underground cave photography, and he will be leading all of our Cave photography workshops.