Day trip to the Adriatic coast

It’s our last day in Slovenia and we made the most of it. We left in the morning for a road trip to the Adriatic Coast, but stopped at famous Postojna Caves on our way. The most fascinating part of the visit was seeing olm, also called baby dragon. About 25 to 30 centimetres, the olm is the largest among cave-dwelling animals and the only vertebrate in Europe strictly bound to cave habitats. It’s completely adapted to life in the dark. It has a lifespan of up to a hundred years and can go without food for as long as 10 years. 😯

From there, we travelled to a town called Piran which is a quaint seaside destination for tourists and locals alike. It had gotten really hot, 32°C, so we didn’t stay as long on the coast as we’d intended. We hopped back in the air conditioned car and visited two sites on the way back to Ljubljana.

The first stop was in Hrastovlje to visit a church famous for its frescoes, Holy Trinity Church. We were fortunate to actually see the church because it was closed when we got there but another couple arrived as we were about to leave and phoned a number on the church door to ask for a visit. A man answered and agreed to come show us the church. Sure enough in five minutes he pulled up and in we went. The church frescoes were painted with by Johannes de Castua, who finished them in 1490. We were so pleased to have seen them.

From there, we drove on to a village called Štanjel famous for the stone walls that surround it that were built in the 1500s. One of the most famous sites within the town is the Ferrari family garden. This corner of Slovenia was once part of Italy so it’s not surprising that the Ferraris had an estate there.Read more