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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Day 22: The Škocjan Caves, Piran (south)

This day was reserved for a bike trip in the south. The plan was to visit the Škocjan Caves, the biggest cave system in Europe and Piran, an old seaport at the Mediterranean.

On the way south some ambulance driver must have spotted my license plate and/or nationality since he greeted me with some \,,/   ;)

Also I used to some smaller roads "on the way down". However the landscape was far different from the north side where I had been driving two days earlier.

Photographing was not allowed in the Škocjan Caves but I can assure you that the they were big and impressive:

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The trip continued towards Piran. I already mentioned how the landscape was different from the north and that is definitely a special thing with Slovenia: in the north (close to Alps) there are mountains and rivers, in the middle there were hills growing with grapes and finally in the south it was really like in a Mediterranean country.

As I might have mentioned earlier, I was not truly blessed with the weather. In Germany the temperature had dropped closer to +10 °C and I was really not prepared for that. But during this day the temperature rised up to +35  °C and I was really sweating my ass off. Luckily in Piran I managed to drop my driving stuff in a tourist office so I could go around the city. Also you're not allowed to enter the city with a car but as I was trying to go in the big parking house before the city, the man at the door just waved that I should enter the city. And so I did since the bike went nicely past the toll booth ;)

Few shots from Piran:





Since it was getting really hot and also I was getting hungry, I decided to move forward towards Portorož where I stopped to take a swim and go to a pizzeria recommended by Polja's parents.

Viffer's first time at the Mediterranean!



More cooling down

After this I drove furthermore south towards the Croatian border. However I turned back around the Sečovlje Saltworks. The way back was bit hard since there was heavy traffic till Koper and the Sun was scorching really hard. I took the fastest way to Ljubljana since I was getting tired and it was getting quite late.




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