A day of caves and bees

We drove to Postogna Caves today. This is a huge series of underground limestone caves in the Karst region of Slovenia. As a geography geek I wanted to see this example of Karst topology. The cave tour was quite an operation as they take you into the caves on a train/people mover. You walk for about 1km in the middle through the caverns before being transported out via train. The formations were stunning and unlike anything we've seen before.

Closer 'home' to Bled, we made a stop at the apicultural aka bee-keeping museum in Radovljica. It's hidden away in the town hall and is a tribute to the industrious species. They even have a working bee-hive in the museum. This is a picture of one of the fancier beehives on display. Apparently many bees in the U.S. are descended from Slovenian bees. No mention of colony collapse at the museum but Mr. Snootypurse reports reading about it somewhere along the line during our trip.

We will drive through Austria today on our way to Cortina Italy. I was struck last night on how strange it is to be traveling freely through the former Yugoslavia. Prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain these folks were the 'bad guys'. I can only hope that the future brings such peace to parts of the world that are under fire today.