Postojna & Lipica
PLACE OF DEPARTURE:bus station or from hotel
DURATION OF TRIP:Whole day
IN PRICE INCLUDED:transfer,guide,ticket for Postojna cave and Lipica and lunch
After a pleasant trip we arrive to the small village Postojna, where we will see one of the best known and most beautiful caves in Europe. The caves are 22 km long, and an electric train will take us through one part, after which we will walk about 2 km through the most beautiful part of the caves. Then we proceed to Lipica, the place where the well-known Lipizzaner horses have been bred for centuries. A guide will take us to the stud farm where a special programme will be performed.
The Postojna Cave system is the largest known cave system in Slovenia. There are longer caves in the world, but a visit to a cave such as Postojna deserves full attention due to the diversity of shapes, expansive cave areas, stalactite and stalagmite formations and water characteristics. What is especially noteworthy is that most of these various shapes and formations can be seen by every visitor, meaning tourists and not just cavers with special caving equipment. Well kept paths for tourists comprise the greater part of Postojna Cave, making it a “horizontal” cave. A visit to the cave does not present any difficulties for most visitors.
Lipica (pron. Lipizza), riding school of the world-famous Lipizzaners, gracious “four-legged aristocrats” founded-back in 1580-by Archduke Charles of Austria. Successful training and skills, top professional rewards won at competitions, with fascinanting performances. The Postojna Cave, world-famous miracle of Nature! A special train will take us down there, through subterranean halls and long corridors chiseled by the Pivka River. Unseen works of art of Nature all those stalagmites, stalactites, pillars and lime-stone veils, a whole variety of colours and shades. The remarkable “brilliant”, then “spaghetti”, “congress” and “concert” halls will make us wonder, not to mention the artifical pool with, in it, the mysterious man-fish (proteus anguinus)… All miracles of Nature inspiring faith and to be preserved forever.
DISCOVER THE MISTERY OF CAVES…
