Skocjan Jama Review

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Skocjan Jama

    Skocjanske Caves
  • Category: Cave
  • Location: Divaca

Fodor's Review:

The 11 interconnected chambers that make up the Skocjan Jama (Skocjanske Caves) stretch for almost 6 km (about 4 mi) through a dramatic, subterranean landscape so unique that UNESCO has named them a World Heritage Site. The 90-minute walking tour of the two chilly main chambers—the Silent Cave and the Murmuring Cave—winds past otherworldly dripstone sculptures, massive sinkholes, and stalactites and stalagmites that resemble the horns of some mythic creature. The highlight is Europe's largest cave hall, a gorge 479 feet high, 404 feet wide, and 984 feet long, spanned by a narrow bridge lighted with footlights. Far below, the brilliant jade waters of the Reka River rush by on their underground journey. The view is nothing short of mesmerizing.

  • Cost: EUR 11
  • Open: June-Sept., daily at 10, 11:30, and 1-5 (tours leave hourly); Apr., May, and Oct., tours daily at 10, 1, and 3:30; Nov.-Mar., tours at 10 and 1
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