Nature and Habitat Tours in Koper

Shared group tour to UNESCO Skocjan caves from Koper

What a wonderful...

What a wonderful experience. I have been to many caves in the US. None of them offers the same scenery and experience as this one with a deep dropoff into a sharp canyon with a roaring river beneath ALL within a cave. WOW!! While the beauty of this cave is the main attraction of this tour, I like to give some heads-ups on the stair climbing required towards the end of the tour. It is not to be underestimated. It requires a lot of physical strength if you are not in good shape physically. Because of the descending path into the cave in the first 50% of the tour, you will have to climb back out all of it and probably in the last 10% of the tour, making it a much steeper climb out. The climb out can be broken into 3 sections. (1) from river level (~170 meters or ~500 feet below ground surface) to ground surface level all within a relatively short distance. This section involves continuous stairs and is very physically demanding. The hard part about this section is that it is hard to stop to rest for a few seconds before continuing climbing because the tour guide climbs fast and everyone has to keep pace with him. Furthermore, the path is narrow, making stop almost impossible as people behind continue to climb up. If you stop to rest, you are blocking their path. Upon reaching this ground surface, the guided portion of the tour ends. (2) from ground surface to where the funicular car is via return path option 1, it involves another continuous and strenuous stairs climbing probably just as much as the climbing in section 1. This was a surprise to me as I thought reaching the ground surface means almost reaching the end of climbing. I would estimate another 100-150 meters (or 300–450 feet) of climbing in a relatively short distance, making the climb quite steep and exhausting. (3) upon reaching the top of the funicular car, there is further climbing back to the ticket office level but at a more gradual pace with ascending path and stairs. I estimate the height climbed in the last section is probably 1/3 of that in section 1 or 2. Upon returning back to the ticket office, I was totally exhausted. So be aware of the not-so-easy climb out if you are not in good shape physically (like me). Meanwhile, enjoy while inside the cave. I keep telling myself that beauty of the cave is worth of effort to climb out in order for me to forget about the climb out experience. Haha!!

Lipica Stud Farm and Skocjan Caves from Koper

Minitour in Slovenia

Our tour in Slovenia was very nice 3/4 days intense but......... 1-a lipiza , the white horses , tour of the park about 4/5 hours 2-posthumous caves and the nearby castle, overnight stay in b.b in town, beautiful 3-on the way back the village and castle of Stafiel, with lunch typical products, about 4 hours 4-New gorica, beautiful city .. with its premises and casino, overnight stay 5-before returning to Italy , visit to Caporetto .. about 80 minutes from n.gorica ... it is worth it.

Istria - Truffles: Hunting & Cooking & Tasting, Slovenia

Wonderful Truffle Hunting

We had an awesome time truffle hunting in Istria! Highly recommend and thanks to Jerneja for everything!