Krizna Jama, dinner in old city
After the well-developed and fabulous but busy and touristy postojna, we headed to another recommended cave. Much more primitive, a group of eight of us pulled on rubber boots and armed with a powerful torch headed into an underground river to take a small pontoon boat around a lake. You can do a 4 hour and a 7 hour tour to go much further into this cave and I would have really enjoyed that. We were limited do the ‘first lake,’ but it was stunning.
So we did a cave on a train and walking and a cave on a boat and walking.
Here are pictures from Krizna Jama (Cross Cave - named for a cross on top of the mountain above it.) (I am sure you remember from our previous lesson that jam means cave in Slovenian.)
Jan in BOOTS.
Map of the caves, our illustrious guide and group.
The skull inside the case is a cave bear that was found here.
The one on top is a modern brown bear. Quite a size difference!
Interesting mottling on the rock from the constant drip from the river above.
This looks remarkably like a wasps nest, to me.
We took a boat around the lake - a light under the boat our only illumination.
Back to the hostel to drop the car and head over to the old city. I had pasta with truffles & cream sauce. REAL truffles. Slices on top, even. I bought a jar of white and a jar of back truffles to take home early this morning you may remember.
