Things to find in Slovenia

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• Idrija mercury mine Gem & mineral ground
  The second-largest mercury mine in the history of the world, worked in Slovenia from 1490 to the 1990s. Cinnabar (mercury sulphide) and droplets of native liquid mercury came out of this ground for five centuries. It is a UNESCO...
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• Mammoth Cave of Europe: Postojna’s neighbours Cave
  The Slovenian Karst is where the word “karst” itself comes from, and beyond famous Postojna and Skocjan lie hundreds of caves: Krizna jama with its underground lakes crossed by boat and cave-bear bones on the floor, and Planina,...
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• Postojna Cave Cave
  One of the most famous caves in the world, and one of the few you tour by train, an electric railway runs two kilometres into the Slovenian karst before you walk the rest. Twenty-four kilometres of passage, immense chambers, and...
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• Škocjan Caves Cave
  A UNESCO World Heritage cave in Slovenia built on a scale that is hard to believe: the Reka river vanishes underground and cuts one of the largest known underground canyons in the world, a chamber so vast the path crosses it on a...
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