Postojnksa Jama cave, Slovenia

July 19-Day 19

We left today for a small town called Postojna, Slovenia. It is in the direction of where we want to go and it has a very huge cave that we want to go see. We take the 1:30 train and the ride is only an hour so we are there early enough in the afternoon to go and see the cave. We drop our bags at the HI hostel that we had book the night before at the last hostel and walked the mile or so to the caves. They are called Postojnksa Jama Cave. It is a UNESCO site.
It was amazing. It was a huge cave system that would be similar to Carlsbad caverns in the USA. It is the most visited caves in Europe. It was discouvered in 1818 and tourism started there the very next year. The constant temp. of the cave is a very cool 8 degrees. Of course we didn’t think of this when we left our hostel and luckly they rent coats for people like us. The tour was the perfect length. They first took us in about 2 miles in a small train, then our guide walked us through another mile or so and then the next 2 miles was again by train. By the time we left our toes were quite chilly.
We decided to leave for the next town tomorrow morning.