Baby dragons and a 800 year old castle

We are quickly discovering one of the best things about life in Ljubljana: all those amazing Slovenian destinations I’ve been stalking on instagram for the past year are day trips!

 An hour’s drive brings you to beautiful and fascinating places. We can see a whole bunch of stuff before Kyle can deploy his “are we there yet” song.

Predjama Castle is 800 years old and the “largest cave castle in the world.” For this visit we only visited the outside, but if you buy a ticket for a tour you get to explore inside the cave network behind the castle.

Apparently one of the knights who owned this castle “died on the toilet after being betrayed by a servant.” I have to find out what that means.

On this visit to the park we spent most of our time in the Postonja Caves, searching for baby dragons.

There is a train that takes you deep inside the cave network, which is the largest in Europe. I’ve been in caves before and I’ve never seen anything like this. The train moves pretty quickly, so hang on to your hats, or in this case, your Ben.

We did find a baby dragon - in an aquarium. We weren’t allowed to take pictures of them but you can see what they look like here: https://www.postojnska-jama.eu/en/wonderland-stories/baby-dragons-secret-stories/.