Description
In the southwestern part of Slovenia stretches a
region called Kras (Karst). It is a land of rare
beauty, secret underground waters and caves, special
climate and scarce vegetation. And right there in a
picturesque village of Lipica for more than 400
years beautiful, white horses called Lipizzaners
have been bred.
A local guide will take the visitors on a guided
tour through the stables pointing out different
methods of stages of breeding and training of these
noble animals. A special feature is a show-program
of a star Lipizzaner studs performing the excellence
of what they have learnt in their school of
training.
The Škocjan caves have an extremely complex system
of cave passages in a total length of 5.8 km. The
caves are the biggest and best known natural
phenomenon within the classical Karst area. With the
shifting of sink holes in the geological past,
numerous collapsed valleys have formed at the
contact point where flysch meets limestone under the
caverns. With their depth of 163 meters, Velika
dolina and Mala dolina charm every visitor. The
finest view of both valleys with the natural bridge
and the cave that separates them is from an
observation point.
The caves, with an immense underground gorge and
halls, are the beginning of the Škocjan underground
system The caves probably have the biggest cave hall
in Europe, measuring 12,000 square meters (1.2
hectares) in cross section. The Reka river runs
underground for almost 40 kilometres, to the sources
of the Timav in the Gulf of Trieste (Italy).