Austria - 2004 juuli

Austria - 2004 juuli - august

2004 aasta 26. juulist kuni 4. augustini toimus Eesti Noorgeoloogide õppematk Austraisse. Sellest retkest ongi need pildid.

Dobšinska jääkoopad

http://www.ssj.sk/english/dolj/dolj.htm

http://www.tourist-channel.sk/jaskyne/dobsinskaen.html

THE DOBSINSKA ICE CAVE

Situated in the Slovak Paradise, in the National Nature Reserve Stratena within the territory of the Slovak Paradise National Park. It was formed in the Middle Triassic limestones by the former ponor stream of Hnilec river, at three developmental levels. The cave length is 1,483 m. Ice filling occurs in the form of ground ice, ice „waterfalls", ice stalagmites and columns. The total volume of ice is 110,100 cubic meters with maximum thickness of 26.5 m. It ranks among the most important ice caves in the world, thanks to its character of glaciation. This is, in the European scope, even more pronounced by its location outside the Alpine region. The cave is one of the most important winter refuges of bats - Myotis mystacinus and Myotis brandti in Slovakia. The opening to the cave was known since the time immemorial. The cave was discovered in 1870, and open to the public as early as in 1871. Since 1887, it has been the first cave with electric illumination in that-time Hungary. Currently, 475 m of the cave are open to the public.

Vaated vihmasele Slovakkiale

Sulovi kaljud

http://www.sulov.sk/

The Sulov Rocks are one of the most significant areas of natural beauty in Slovakia. Rocky massif is formed into bizzare shapes of towers, cones, needles, gates and the rocks resembling figures, animals and things. There is a great variety of fauna and flora on Sulov territory.

The Sulov Rocks are frequentily visited by tourists, bikers and climbers. Hiking is adequately strenuous with severalhour walks with 300-500 m difference of elevation. During the last two decades real paradise for climbers have been created in Sulov and today it belongs to the most interesting areas not only in Slovakia.