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Cristian_Uluru Says: At the end of the visit you arrive to the Schmidl Hall. There you can see the 165-metre high walls of Velika dolina all around. At the bottom of the dolina you can see the Reka River and over 10-meters high waterfall for the last time. At the end of the trail you can see the...
Cristian_Uluru Says: Dvorana ponvic (Rimstone Pools’ Hall) is one of the last part of the trail you see during the visit. There you can the Rimstone Pool which were made by the water during the centuries.
Cristian_Uluru Says: The trail continues to the most aadventurous and exciting part of the visit of the caves. After the Silent Caves you arrive to the Noise Caves. Here begin the trail on the rim of the underground canyons of the Reka River. The Müller Halls is about 700/800 meters long and it...
Cristian_Uluru Says: Velika Dvorana (Big Cave) is the fantastic. This part of the Silence Cave is 120 meters wide and 30 meters high. Here you can see wonderful example of stalagmites and stalactites with strange names like the Giant or the Organ. Here you can also see many colours in the...
Cristian_Uluru Says: The visit to the caves starts from the tiket office. Here you meet your guide and after a 15 minutes walk you arrive at the entrance of the caves. The visit starts from the Tiha Jama (Silence cave) which is about 500 meters long. The first part of the Silence cave is called...
Cristian_Uluru Says: The Belvedere is the perfect place where to start of your visit to the Skocjan Park and Caves. From it you can have a great view over the Velika Dolina (Big Valley) and on the throat where the Reka River starts its underground journey. On the other side of the Dolina you can...
Take a walk in the Škocjan park
himalia11 Says: There are several walking paths and also an Educational Trail. Information plates at the Educational Trail are only in Slovenian, but you can get a guidebook in English or download it from the webpage. It’s a nice area and you can walk for quite a while there! In any case...
himalia11 Says: There’s an ethnological and farmer museum in the village that consists of two houses with some small exhibitions. There’s not so much to see, but if you have some time after your visit of the cave just go there, it’s included in the entrance fee of the cave! It's a short...
Plunge into the underground world of Škocjan cave
himalia11 Says: The Škocjan cave is one of the UNESCO world heritages. It’s a fascinating cave with the biggest underground canyon. You first will see a “normal” dripstone cave called the ‘Silent Cave’, with some huge halls, very beautiful. However the most impressive part comes a bit later...
Cristian_Uluru Says: At the end of the trail you can find a funicular carry you on the 90 meters wall of the dolina untill the ticket office.
leics Says: Please, think about your footwear. The cave visit isn't particularly rough, or slippery, but there are lots of slopes and lots of steps.And if you wear heels like the woman on the left (who was no spring chicken anyway) you will a) slow everyone down, b) risk breaking your...
Cristian_Uluru Says: Skocjanske Jama are 5.8 Km long and 250 meters deep and they were dug from the Reka River. It enter in the caves from a throat located under the village of Skocjan and it slides till the Dead Lake. Here the river disappear and reappears (with the name of Timavo) near Duino...
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Dvorana ponvic (Rimstone Pools’ Hall) is one of the last part of the trail you see during the visit. There you can the Rimstone Pool which were made by the...
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The wonderful caves of Skocjan
Welcome to the fantastic Caves of Skocjan. To visit these caves is a great experience and it seems to retrace part of Jules Verne's book Journey to the center of the Earth. These caves have got some...
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Škocjan Cave - a wonderful underground world
Škocjan is a small village in the southwest of Slovenia about 1 hour drive from Ljubljana and famous for its cave. It’s a fantastic cave with a huge underground canyon, I’ve never been in a such......
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Skocjan caves: just...........wow!
Skocjan is a tiny hamlet within Skocjan Regional Park. And the reason people go there is to visit the most wonderfully beautiful cave system, created by the River Reka as it flow underground ('reka'...
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