Forests

Rest your soul and body among the green Koroška forests. And let their rare resident – the wild rooster – reward you with its singing.

In the Koroška region, green forests welcome you everywhere you look – as far as the eye can see. They cover almost three quarters of the region’s surface. The vast forest proportions of the western Pohorje invite you to enjoy their shadow during the summer or create a magical fairy-tale in the winter. The Ribniško Pohorje area is home to the tallest tree in Slovenia as well as in Central Europe – the Sgermova Smreka Spruce. Lime trees – the symbol of Slovenia – decorate many homesteads in the Koroška region. The mother of all lime trees is the Najevska Lipa lime tree, the thickest tree in Slovenia, which is located by the Najevnik homestead, at Ludranski Vrh south above the Črna na Koroškem settlement.

Huda luknja

Discover this subterranean gem of the isolated Karst, which is undoubtedly one of the largest natural sights of the Koroška and Šaleška regions. Huda Luknja is one of the oldest tourist caves in Slovenia and has been open for visitors since 1895. With its dimension and location next to the Velenje–Slovenj Gradec regional road, it sparks curiosity and always seems to surprise both the visitors and the researchers, since it hides a number of sights inside and in the surroundings. Up to this day, more than 2,900 metres of the cave have been researched, however experts believe there is a much larger cave system to be explored. The underground surface where you can walk and crawl is about 1,600 metres long.

The karst underground is an increasingly popular form of actively spending leisure time. Experience the unforgettable subterranean adventure! Professional and skilled speleologists will take you into the depths of the cave where you will spend four hours rather differently. First, you will head out through Lisičnica, which is one of the access points into the Huda Luknja cave. After a few defiles and two siphons, you will have to crawl, relatively dry, to the ‘bear tunnel’ (Medvedji Rov), which is in this part buried under deposits of gravel and clay, and where you can also spot some bones of cave bears.

Then you will take a walk around the large hall of the Medvedji Rov tunnel with magnificent dripstone structures, from cave curtains, stalagmites, stalactites, pans and really thin pipes. If you are lucky, you might even meet one of the bats living in the cave. The path is cut off at the end of the tunnel with a 30-metre abyss, meaning you will have to turn back and follow the same path again, enjoying the cave beauty once more.

What do you need? You will receive all the needed equipment before entering the cave. All visitors must be in good physical condition and wear warm clothes.

Those who have already experienced the cave, claim it is very hard to describe their feelings, which were also felt by the first researchers of this karst beauty. Let us preserve it for our offspring.