Žan Kafol Aerial & cave photographer SL
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Medvedjak

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Medvedova Cave near Markovščina, or Skadanščina, has several beautiful chambers with speleothems. It is entered by rope through a 40-metre shaft.

While waiting for 20 other cavers to ascend and descend the rope, I had time to take a few photographs.

A caver hangs on a forty-metre rope inside Medvedjak, surrounded by dramatically illuminated vertical walls.
A caver stands among dense stalactites and tall flowstone columns in a richly decorated Medvedjak chamber.
Ana stands atop pale flowstone in Medvedjak, backlit formations spreading behind her like luminous angel wings.
Ana stands among rounded flowstone columns and dense stalactites in Medvedjak, her headlamp shining into the dark passage.
Two small caver silhouettes stand inside the vast shadowed entrance shaft of Medvedjak Cave.
A helmeted caver pauses among delicate columns and draped calcite formations inside Medvedjak cave.
A caver explores a dense chamber of pale stalagmites and slender columns inside Medvedjak cave.

After visiting Medvedjak Cave, we climbed back to the surface and had a quick look at the small but also beautiful Mt 11 Cave.

Hans explores a chamber crowded with delicate stalactites and pale flowstone in the Medvedjak cave system.
A person in blue explores a towering limestone chamber filled with slender stalagmites and curtains in cave Mt 11.
Urša, wearing an orange helmet, squeezes between dense stalactites and sculpted calcite walls inside Mt 11 Cave.
A helmeted caver emerges at the narrow forest entrance of Medvedjak, framed by a tree trunk, rock and dense leaves.