Speleology Slovenia

Caving as a tourist offer is focused on the tourists with a great love for the study and teaching of underground karst phenomena such as caves and pits, as well as unusual and rare plant and animal species. Cavers caving made plans based on the measurement of dimensions and providing cave channels, as well as documentation of morphological, hydrological, geological and physical properties. Given the activity of cavers to deep and complex holes and special caving techniques and training caving team, we can say that part of caving activities like mountain climbing and can be considered a sport activity. For the purposes of tourism, caves and pits are often tailored to the tourists so that tourists, if they decide to speleological research or I visit some of the caves or cave, often go accompanied by guides who are trained to navigate the caves that tourists do not get lost or jeopardized. Known caves often have other tourist offer such as souvenir shop, a place for a meal or refreshment.

Slovenia has a surface of 20 251 km². The Republic of Slovenia has a border with Austria on the north, on the north-east with Hungary, on east and south with Croatia an on the west side with Italy. Ljubljana is the capital city of Slovenia and it’s spreads along the Ljubljanica river.
There are 28 peaks and mountains above 2.500 m of hight, the highest peak is the Triglav with it's 2.864 m. The Alpine world is divided in 3 mountanious groups: Julian Alps, Karavanke and Kaminsko-Savinjske.
Slovenia in all his Dinaric-Charsic teritory has approximately 6.500 large and small debris caves and pits, about twenty of theme were addapted for tourist visiting purposes. The most famous and visited caves are the caves of Postojna (19,50 km of cave galleries and pits); the most accessible are the Škocijanske jame (Škocijan Caves nad pits) which are signed in the UNESCO’s list of world natural heritage.
On the boundiaries of the Panonian valley there are many spring waters, creeks and rivers which create a numerous areas enriched with thermal water. Sixteen sources were...