Yesterday, Monday, we went to the caves of Postojna, one of the most awaited holiday of all. We expected, due to their fame, a beautiful landscape, a delight. Unfortunately, instead of the disappointment was great. Is not clear to the cave itself, that jaw-dropping, but here is how the man managed to destroy his passing. The numbers are scary, there is talk of 34 million presense in one hundred years of tourism, with a daily record of 9,000 entries. The Postojna Cave is the Big Ben of caving, a huge tourism perfectly oiled machine. Around the entrance there are restaurants, souvenir shops, an adventure park and a horrendous The hotel must pay at least 26 € (the price includes a visit to a nearby castle which I'll discuss below) for a visit of just over an 'hour. Thanks to an electric train, passing through tunnels and rooms in less than a quarter of an hour all very nice, pity about the voices of the people, the noise of the train that propagates, but especially for the sin which, if strong light point of view allows you to see the splendor of the cave, the other with its warm light activates photosynthesis and moss grows on the white limestone formations. Once at the "station" here's the surprise: There are no neon signs pointing tourists to the meeting point of the guide in different languages, our name is Gregor and the first thing everyone please do not take pictures, especially with flash. Needless to say, will never be heard and this irritates him a lot. You walk for a while 'in different rooms, fatastiche must be said, but all the walkways are cemented and relatively large, the railings were made of iron, I do not imagine the amount of stalagmites destroyed to allow tourists to walk comfortably without even getting wet the shoes. All the stalagmites on the sides of the walkway have the color that the snow fall on the sides of roads. Are black, dirty. Gregor explains the reason, people always touching them and fat present on the skin is transmitted to the rock and making it tarnish preventing From that time to grow. One, two, three million hands have made them so. The friendly tourist behind me complains to his wife when the guide points out that human intervention has been so destructive to say that yes, nature is beautiful, but if there was no man to appreciate it would not then much. Having said that protrudes and touches on an off-white stalagmite. Okay, maybe he was referring to the Zen saying that questions about whether a tree falling in an uninhabited forest makes no noise! Climb on the train and return to the light, not the first to make a stop in the concert hall, the largest: 3 000 square meters totally cemented so sad. To be honest we both appreciated a lot more smaller and less famous caves near Porec. I do not know if it is right to open up to mass tourism, places like that and I think that would be more appropriate to handle it differently. If you really struggle to see Davi, be guided by experts and trek inside the cave.
short, if you love nature, I do not recommend them to you, sad to say but the Postojna Cave is a place dead, killed by man.
The second stop of the day is the castle of Predjmski, especially to be built in a cave. Here you can wander freely through the rooms and everything has been reconstructed in great detail and good taste. The most fascinating is the view from outside the building, showing the engineer of man and his adaptability. A difference of Postojna here the work of man has not destroyed nature and the landscape, but it has become part harmoniously.
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