We’re in Slovenia now!
We started our day doing something really different, we went deep into the Postojna Caves. The caves are just over 24 km, but we’re only allowed to go through 5.3 km. It goes down about 115 metres so we got to take a cute little train through part of the tour. Then we got out and walked along a pathway to take a closer look at the most magnificent parts.
The cave is a karst cave, carved by the Pivka River over millions of years. It’s mainly limestone, and the colours are a result on iron, calcium and manganese. We learned that the formations grow very, very slowly but are always changing. Some of the cave sections are massive with huge domed alcoves, stalagmites and stalactites hanging down or towering upward. There’s one great big bright white one they call “Brilliant”. We walked through the caves looking all over in awe!
In the afternoon we had continued our train journey and we were in Ljubljana. It’s known as the dragon city and we found some huge dragon statues on the 4 corner post on a famous town bridge. We toured through the old town looking at the fancy old buildings and listening to a lady tell us about the history of the town. We found out Slovenia only became an independent country in 1991.
We added an extra treat to our day with a quick tour of the National Museum. One of the prized displays we were shown was the remnants of a flute, made from cave bear bone, that is estimated to be about 60,000 years old (maybe the oldest musical instrument). Then we checked out other exhibits that took us through times or the Iron Age and Roman occupations. Quite the collection!
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