Blogs from Postojna, Inner Carniola, Slovenia, Europe

25 nov Je quitte maintenant Bled et les imposantes montagnes enneigées de la frontière autrichienne dans le but de rejoindre Postojna. Mon trajet ne me laisse guère le choix que de repasser par Ljubljana pour rebondir vers un autre bus qui lui, partira vers les plateaux du sud. Il se trouverait à Postojna une fameuse grotte (Postojnska Jama) qui attire les foules et dont je n'avais jamais entendu parler auparavant. J'en ai lu quelques paragraphes dans mon guide en papier mais sans plus. Plutôt curieux, j'ai décidé d'ajouter cet endroit à mon itinéraire avant de continuer ma route (peut-être) vers les rivages de la Mer Adriatique. Les distances sont plutôt courtes entre chacune de mes destinations mais survêtu dans les grands transports bien chauffés (contrairement aux auberges), ce sera difficile de ne pas m'assoupir. Ljubljana me ... read more

Day 37 : Saturday 12 October It’s a small bus group and we head to Predjama Castle The Predjama Castle is amazing. One of the best. It’s built into the rock and you get a great feel for how they lived. It extends right back into the hill side and allowed them to escape up through the top of the mountain, plus they had fresh water running down into the castle. Fantastic. From there we took windy roads to the caves. The Postojna cave was huge. We have to take a train the first 2 kms just to get far enough into the cave. Its massive. It’s quite cool in the train. Long day, we all pig out on biscuits and chips as we’re all getting hungry. Headed out for a few drinks at a couple ... read more

Breakfast this morning consisted of a well stocked buffet at our accommodation in Grobisce. We ate heartily (our hosts even sourced out GF bread for Kim) from the produce which was mostly prepared and cooked in-house, to sustain us for our journey today to the centre of the earth. Our first port of call was Postojna Caves, which lies within the town of Postojna, and, along with Predjama Castle, is one of the leading tourist attractions of the south-west region of Slovenia. The cave system is 24.34 kms long and is the second-longest cave system in the country. The caves were created by the Pivka River. The cave was first described in the 17th century by the pioneer of study of karst phenomena, Johann Von Valvasor, although graffiti inside dated to 1213 indicates a much longer ... read more

Today was a super touristy day. Postojna is most known for its incredible cave system and nearby castle built into a cave. Because this is the most popular tourist sight in Slovenia we arrived at the ticket office early and took the 9am (first) tour into the famous caves. It’s a 24km long set of caves that are joined follow a river that drains into the Black Sea. The tour starts with a train ride, immediately we were impressed with the density of the stalactites and stalagmites (‘speleothems’ I learned today). The cave tour takes an hour and a half and the walk is around 1.2 km. Some of the cave spaces are huge all are covered in speleothems. There’s a free shuttle bus that takes you up to the castle, 10 km away. The castle ... read more

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