Craggy gorges, wild gulches, narrow valleys and long canyons, bickering streams and booming waterfalls over all of which rise massive rocks. This picturesque corner in Slovakia takes your breath away. (Spectacular Slovakia) |
Slovak Karst National Park is the largest and most typical karst area in Central Europe. Its system of plateaus and deep valleys abundant in underground and surface karst phenomena, varied fauna and richest Pannonian flora attract numerous visitors. |
A unique protected lowland area along the River Latorica with its extraordinary floodplain forests adjacent to blind channels with rare fauna and flora.
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Vihorlat Primeval Beech Forests - an impressive volcanic mountain range of Vihorlat with a little volcanic tarn called Morské oko.
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Spectacular and well worth visiting. (Tripadvisor) Domica Cave is the most known and longest cave of the Slovak Karst National Park. Except for important geomorphological features, it is interesting by precious archaeological findings, occurrence of flowstone shields and drums, as well as numerous bat species presence. |
Gombasecká Cave belongs among the most important caves of the Slovak Karst national park. It is known mostly by occurrence of thin straw stalactites. Within the „Caves of Slovak and Aggtelek Karst“ it was inscribed on the world heritage list. |
A unique natural phenomenon drawing attention by the richness and variety of aragonite fill, as well as an interesting evolution and development of cave spaces. |
One of the most important caves of the Slovak Karst National Park. Known for rich calcite flowstone fill, remarkable rocky shapes and development of underground spaces, with abundant bat occurrence, several archaeological findings and interesting history. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List within the Caves of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst. |
One of the most important ice caves in the world. Since 2000 it is inscribed on the world heritage list. The monumental glaciation of the Dobšinská Ice Cave persist for thousands of years at elevations only 920 to 950 m. |
Until recently, the Guinness Book of Records listed the Krásnohorská stalagmite as the largest in existence, a 35-metre high chunk of breathtaking natural extravagance, with a 12-metre wide base. It grows significantly in volume every year as the relentless drips solidify, but the cavern it occupies is vast and it will be a few (million) years yet until it's too big to accommodate visitors. No hurry, then, but do get along. It's a wonderful sight. (Travel Spectator) |
At 110 metres deep, it is the deepest ice cave in the world. A World Heritage Site since 1995, the cave is on the Silica Plateau in the Slovak Karst, about 2 km west of the village of Silica. It is a part of the Silica-Gombasecká underground hydrological system, with exceptional flora and fauna, archaeological findings and various bat species that stay in the cave in winter. Visit also popular Babska Hole nearby. |
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The only low temperature water geyser in Europe can be found in a beautiful park in the village of Herľany close to Košice.
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This 15m high waterfall is the greatest waterfall of the Slovak Karst National Park. Interestingly, the waterfall can be found amid village houses just behind the village of Hrhov.
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