Classroom lesson · Postojna Cave · 🇸🇮 Slovenia
A 24-kilometre cave you ride through on a little electric train
Photo · Wikimedia Commons
Postojna Cave is one of the longest cave systems in Europe. Visitors ride a tiny underground train through huge halls full of stalactites and stalagmites - some as tall as a five-storey building.
The cave was carved out over two million years by an underground river. Today the system stretches for about 24 kilometres.
An electric train takes visitors deep inside, then they walk through chambers given names like the 'Spaghetti Hall' (for thin needle-like stalactites) and the 'Concert Hall' (which has held concerts for 10,000 people).
Postojna is also home to one of the strangest animals on the planet: the olm, a pink cave salamander that can live for over a hundred years.
Imagine you're a cave guide. Write three rules for visitors and the name of one new chamber you've just discovered.
More about Slovenia
Lake Bled
A picture-postcard lake with a tiny island in the middle
Open lesson
Mount Triglav
Slovenia's highest peak - its three heads appear on the flag
Open lesson
Ski jumping at Planica
Where some of the longest ski jumps in the world happen every year
Open lesson
Piran salt pans
Sea-water ponds where salt has been harvested by hand for 700 years
Open lesson
Pick Sloveniawhen you register and we’ll show you the time-zone feasibility.