Back to Croatia

Move over Jenolan Caves, have we seen a cave today !!! Postojna in Slovenia boasted to be the best limestone caves in the world and I imagine they may be right. In terms of sheer size anyway. The entrance arch is pretty small compared to Jenolan but then ....... 2 km via small train straight into the mountain mostly through natural tunnel and then carved out in places to reach the station and then a smooth path to walk up and through for another 2 km of mostly natural tunnel - some man made to connect chambers together.





The largest cavern had a 300 m arched roof with a mountain in the middle to wind around and then a bridge made by Russian prisoners of war over the dry river bed into a substantial passage way through many, many formations. The river does go through 3 other levels and most of the cave is wet and actively growing - dated for the last 500,000 years. An hour later we found ourselves in the final cavern of the tour, 50 x 80 m, and then back to the train and lunch.







Now back at the water - although this far North in Opatija, the forest does meet the sea so it is not so dry and rocky, bit more Italian perhaps.





See you soon

Love Wendy and Graeme