Arrived at the Cave (Jama is cave in Slovenian, incase that wasn't obvious)
After a tiring cycle with rain & wind back to Postojna Cave I got back there at about 12:45pm.
Arrived at the Cave (Jama is cave in Slovenian, incase that wasn't obvious)
Found the Posbikes stand and said farewell to my bike. I had hired it for 2 hours but went a bit over the time, I had checked with them before hand what happens if you did that and they said wasn't a big problem.
Returned my Posbike at Postojna Cave
Mine had the plastic bag over saddle (took a bunch of the ones you get at shops for milk/veg)
I did remove the bag and chuck it in a bin.
If you recall I had booked for the 2pm Cave tour. First thing I did was go to the ticket office (lady at the Castle said to do that) to see if I could change the time to earlier, I didn't know the times of the tours off hand, was about 8th in the queue and heard from the ticket window "the next time slot we have free is 2pm" so I left the queue as what I had was as good a time as I could get. This was perfectly fine. Found a nice spot (there was wifi too) and sat and had some lunch and tinkered on my phone until closer to the time when I went and waited at the front of the queue as I wanted a good seat on the train.
The time came to enter, they split people into language groups and then we boarded the train.
The train ride is about 3.5km long (now I read again, it seems is that each way). You go cruising along (not too fast mind you) and are able to see some of the cave's wonders on the way. I rekon if you were very tall you'd need to be quite careful and maybe duck at times, maybe not - I'm sure they would have thought about that. You then get off the train and have a walking tour of about 1.5km/90min with the guide telling you about things along the way. People would go at their own speed, but keeping in the group. I missed some of the guides explanations as was on my own mission taking photos and stuff.
You needed to have a jacket for sure in the cave, which I knew and had anyway due to the weather, it was about 10°C in there, so quite nippy. You could have bought tickets to also visit the Vivarium and Expo Cave Karst but I didn't worry about those 2 things.
The photos/videos don't really show the scale of the cave and the amazing things inside but will include a wide selection so you can get an idea.
Train before heading out
Light wall showing "baby dragons"
I added Youtube chapters for the train ride in and out of the cave (after the other bits), you can probably just speed that bit up in the video.
After finishing the cave, at 3:45pm I headed back to Postojna (town). I checked the bus timetable, a bus had left at 3:45pm which I sadly wouldn't have been able to make even if I had rushed, the next was 5:35pm. Looked around Postojna close by and then found a local shop (Mercator) and bought something to eat and drink and sat at the bus station having a nibble and drinking my beer like a real local.
Postojna
Primary school in Postojna
Župnijska cerkev sv. Štefana (church)
Župnijska cerkev sv. Štefana (inside church)
Drinking my beer in front of graffiti at Postojna bus station
Went travelled back to Ljubljana a different route than we had come using.
There were a lot of switchbacks at one point (note the cyclist coming up)
I got back to Ljubljana at about 7pm and went on the search for something for dinner. More about that and all other food stuff in the Lubjljana food post.