Sunday, 3 June 2007

Postojna Cave

After 1hr15min train + 30mins walk(I was misled by the signpost of B&B halfway, actual distance is only 2km), I finally reach Postojna Cave. So this is the biggest Karst Cave in Europe. I bought a ticket combine with Predjama castle(without figuring out how I supposed to go there yet). Then, I join the long queue(many foreign and local tourists with kids) into the cave. First, we had to take a small train into the centre of cave.


Then, we would pass through a lot of staglactiteand staglamite in the cave.


Well there are too many tourist with too many language group(all European languages, Japanese still have no stands here). We have to go through a very brief introduction by our tour guide. Well the cave is very wet and cold. The path was very steep. Luckily the government there(including some Russian soldiers during world war one) had made the with handle and pave the path properly with cement. So it was still ok for me to walk on, there was only one occasion where I was tripped by a stalagmite at the side. All the stones looked very impressive in this big, multi level cave. I got a chance to see the human fish, viviparium proteus, a salamander with translucent body. It lose its body pigment due to long term living in a dark environment for generations. I wonder if human live in cave without light for years, how will the consequence be?

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