Caves Shkotsyanske - Yam

Postojna - Yama is, so to speak, to the pleasant cave, where you can easily enjoy the endless variety of fantastic extruded shapes. Located not far from this cave Shkotsyanske - Yama. in contrast, primarily affects the severity of the picture of the Underworld. Stalagmites and stalactites are less, although there are also curious shapes, such amazing beauty wandering terraces. Shkotsyanske - Yam open up a lover of nature other exciting pages of history of education of the caves. Thus the two cave systems successfully complement one another, but from the perspective of a geologist, cave Shkotsyanske - Yama, perhaps even more attractive Postojna - Yam. The most interesting thing is that here we can see how the cave river river suddenly disappears from the surface and groundwater flows on paths. "The River", as well as in the Russian language, common name, but poor water karst areas, river means so much that the word has a proper name. The river originates on Mount Sneznik (1026) of characteristic peak which is clearly visible on the horizon if the article back to the cave entrance. The cave river flowing through marl (flip) and is a common watercourse on the land surface, but then runs into a thick sequence of limestone karst and goes underground. Over the first cave gate at a height of 109 m above the underground river, stands the church. Pa bottom two huge flops small and large river valleys can again be seen far below, before it completely disappears in the biggest cave. Particularly impressive picture opens with the Belvedere, nestling on a vertical wall of the Great Valley. At 160 meters below us foaming rapids, breaking through a steep narrow gorge jumper between the two valleys. Above the canyon remained a small natural bridge, under which the river forms a very high waterfall.