Postojna Cave - A Journey with a Fast Little Electric Train

Postojna Cave is, maybe, the top tourist site of Slovenia – a small European country, part of EU. It was part of Yugoslavia and now, after 20 years of independence, it is still associated with Slovakia – try to avoid this confusion. The cave was first visited by Francis I, the first Emperor of Austria, in 1918. It was opened to the public in 1819. From its 20,570 m long Karst cave system only 5 km are open to public, first 2 km and the last 2 of them is a journey with a fast little electric train – don’t try to take pictures because the train is fast to prevent this because there were a lot of injured visitors in the past. The ticket is a little expensive (around 23 Euros and you can buy it online) but for sure worth to the last cent. A second reason not to take photos is that there are many protected species that are affected by light and after all, you don’t have a professional camera with flash light and tripod and the pictures will not be as good as a beautiful postcard. The caves are also home to the endemic olm, the largest troglodytic amphibian in the world. The tour through the caves includes an aquarium with some olms (Proteus Anguinus) in it, a very small and fragile creature, almost transparent. The last part of the tour takes you in a big hall, used for concerts, it can accommodate up to 80.000. peoples. I have visited the caves in 2010 and bought a lot of cards, some that you can see are on my dental office wall. My mom is so afraid of caves because 30 years ago she almost died – a wrong step. It was very hard to convince her to take the tour and she did it. She was impressed because the pathway is not slippery and everything is very safe and well thought.

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Wikipedia For more information, links, pictures and many more Wikipedia is the perfect site to be informed.

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