2019 April Italy and Slovenia with Jan - Day 5 (Thursday) Krizna Jama and dinner in the 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.)
https://krizna-jama.si/en/

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.