Adriatic or Bust

As interesting as Slovenian television is, we wanted to take a few minutes and fill you in on the highlights of our day.  We just finished typing this only to have it lost, so we might run through things with a bit less gusto and humor than usual.

We started off the morning by going to the market and buying breakfast and lunch.  Then we picked up a few souvineers to those who are leaving comments on our blog.  For those of you lagging behind, there is plenty of merchadise in Croatia.  Don't give up.  We left for a bus to Divaca (De-VACH-a).  The bus station was very small and cute.  We tried to find somewhere to leave our bags, but the ticket man at the train station didn't speak English.  Luckily a really nice Slovenian woman who spoke english helped us find the three luggage lockers at the train station (yep, small airport.)  When we walked  back out of the station, sad that we hadn't seen a WC and were preparing for a 45 minute walk to the Skocjan caves.  Luckily, there was a free tourist bus that pulled up outside.  YEAH!

The caves were unbelieveable.  We spent two hours walking through the caves.  The first part was the silent caves, and the second part was the wet caves.  The wet caves were basically like the grand canyon under a cavern.  We were 500 feet above the river.  At one point at about 300 feet above the river we actually crossed it.  It was like it belonged in Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.  It was very cool.  It is as UNESCO world heritige site.

This is Sue at the exit to the cave.  It was enourmous.  At the end of the cave, we could either take the funicular back, or we could hike out of the valley.  If you think we took the funicular, you obviously don't know how things work.  The walk out was very sweaty, but very nice.

This is a beautiful waterfall before the river goes under the river.

 

This is a second cave that used to be a tourist cave, but has too much archeological value to enter.

We got back to Devaca and had to wait around for about an hour for a bus to show up.  The bus drive through every small town and eventually ended up in Piran. ..  a cute little seaside town in Slovenia.  So excited for the Adriatic.  The water was a bit choppy becuase a storm was coming in, but it was wonderful.

Here I am enjoying a gelato after a swim on the beach.  Notice that the beach is rocks along the ocean next to the promenade. 

This is the classic town square.  Tartini Square.  This town is technically bi-lingual.  Everything must be written in Slovenian and Itallian. 

Here is Janna standing out on that peir with the semi cloudy sunset.  It was a beautful evenning.