Postojna Things to Do

This castle, mentioned by the first time in 1274, is located about 12 km notheastern from Postojna. It is one of the most visited castles in Slovenia, and it was built-up into the ovehanging rock.
Under the castle is a Cave, used to be horse studs.

Postojna is only famous for one thing, and that is the huge 25km cave complex under the ground. It is a great tourist draw from all over, especially with Italians, Austrians and Germans, and for good reason: it is fantastic. The caves are fascinating from both a geological and historic perspective, and are simply astonishing to experience. The grand stalagmites and stalactites have taken tens of thousands of years to form. At about 30-40,000 years per meter, and many standing several meters tall, the age of the caves is staggering. Historically too, they have been important, and deep within the cave you can walk across a bridge built by Russian prisoners during the first world war, and as you exit on the train that drives you 5km into the heart of the complex, you pass many blackened caverns, caused by the Partizans of WW2 blowing up the Nazi fuel depot built inside the caves.

The ticket costs about 3000 SIT, and includes a 5km train journey and a guided tour of about a couple of kilometers of the best sections, in English, Italian, German or, of course, Slovenian. The cost is definitely well worth it, which cannot be said for the overpriced fast food stalls that have proliferated outside the entrance. It's also worth noting that no matter how hot it is outside, the caves are distinctly chilly, with a constant year round temperature of about 8 degrees centigrade. You'll need a pullover in order to be comfortable, although you won't freeze without one.

Here you see so-called CURTAINS but if you would say that these formations resemble the wings of bats, I can agree with you.

Here they hang like the sheets a woman has just hung on the line to dry!

The lights in this cave are directed in the best position to make it clear to us how thing these drapes are......

Ever been to BRUGGE in BELGIUM?? Well, this looks like the famous, fragile LACE WORK you can see and buy in BRUGGE!

Do enjoy!

This is a most wonderful formation.....
In fact, walking here you will feel stunned and amazed time and again....

NATURE is a WUNDERKIND, prodigy.......

Here it sculpted such a wondrous pillar that I wondered, how and why......because each time I have to think: wind can't work here, nor can extreme heat or cold, so NATURE'S own material or tool / piece of equipment is and always has been: WATER.

Water that goes down, slow, very slow of quickly, little water or masses of water or just water damp......

How great a mystery these caves and all other caves, wherever they are, are!!
One of the reasons that I will always visit caves, wherever I come........

Here then you see a funny, strange, a bit weird animal: a albino sort of salamander.

The animal is so used to the eternal darkness that through the ages it changed......it doesn't have eyes anymore, there is no need for these animals to have them....

And so colourless: well, it never will see daylight, so it doesn't need any pigment....

Here deep down is a large glass terrarium with some water in it and lights are burning there just to show the visitors these animals.....so I had a good look at them but I can't say I like them.....so foetus-like!

Every few days they have to have other animals because the light of the lamps makes them develop pigment and thus colour.............and I don;t think the animals do feel quite happy in that aquarium.....

This is a celing as you never saw before in your life...

Cathedrals can have most intricate and wonderful ceilings and vaults, but don't underestimate NATURE, that greatest of great architects!

Here it is mimicking something that looks like a man's face, that hasn't been shaven for quite some days.......the only difference is that these stalagtites are hollow and dripping and dripping away, but growing and growing like a beard..........

Funny walking there and watching this happen: things are changing every split second and we can witness that wonder-deep-down-under..........

Wouldn't you sweat that you were watching a huge waterfall??

But when walking there you won't hear the sound of falling water, no sparkling droplets here because: it is no water.......It is the white calcium nitr. that has been formed by water that slowly but very steadily went down the walls.....and think of the millions of years it must have taken water here to form this silent waterfall!

How patient an artists NATURE itself is!

The castle perches on a vertical cliff 123m high; behind it is an extensive system of underground passageways with various hidden exits and a supply of running water. An almost impregnable fortress.

The tickets will stop being sold about half an hour before the castle closes its doors. There is a big possibility that the (un)friendly lady at the reception won't even look at you if you arrive too late and you have to read travel guides to get some information because she will be so rude she won't bother explaining why she slams the door on your face and turns the back on you. That's exactly what happened to me.
Everybody has problems in life but... I've nothing to do with it.