Karst Living Museum

The Karst Living Museum (Slovene: Živi muzej Krasa) is a nature trail in Slovenia.

Typical karst phenomena in the area are sinkholes, uvalas, limestone pavement, chasms, and caves.

Natural processes created geomorphological features which became characteristic of karst: soluble corrosion of limestone as a consequence of the chemical action of water, carbon dioxide, and organic acids.

Limestone shapes have specific names, such as rills (žlebiči), karrens (škraplje, škraplijšča), kamenitzas (škaune), stone tables known as mushrooms, and hums (osamelci); boulders are known as griže.

Other features of karst terrain are shallow valleys (dolinice) and deeper ones, which may be round and elongated or dish- or step-shaped.

They were created hundreds of thousands of years ago in the Late Pleistocene, during the gradual collapse of cave ceilings.

A year later, they reached the Reka at a depth of 340 meters (1,120 ft) through a shaft in the Stršinkna Valley.

For centuries, the native karst vegetation has resisted the bora and drought on its shallow soil.

Other flowers include violets, primroses, lilies of the valley, daffodils, golden daisies, peonies, and cyclamen.

Other deciduous trees include the hop and common hornbeam, ash, hazel, and wild cherry.

Shrubs include blackthorn, juniper, smoke tree, barberry, common elder and mahaleb cherry.

Nocturnal predators include foxes, wild cats, beech marten, weasels, jackals, wolves and brown bears.

Karst common land is home to the horned viper, black snake and green, and sand lizard.

The region is an archaeological site, with findings of fossils, animal bones and ancient artefacts.