16-MAY to 15-SEP Tue-Sun 9-16 on the full hour
16-SEP to NOV Tue-Sun 10 11 1230 14
Karst cave,
Middle Triassic limestones.
Správa Slovenských Jaskýn, Hodžova 11, 031 01 Liptovský Mikuláš, +421-849-5536411, Fax: +421-849-5536311. E-mail:
| Location: | Kozie chrbty, Vazecky chrbat, cadastral area Vazec, district Liptovsky Mikulas, Zilinsky region. |
| Open: |
FEB to 15-MAY Tue-Sun 10 11 1230 14 16-MAY to 15-SEP Tue-Sun 9-16 on the full hour 16-SEP to NOV Tue-Sun 10 11 1230 14 |
| Fee: | Adults 50,- SKK, Students 40,- SKK, Children (4-15) 30,- SKK, Foto 100,- SKK, Video 300,- SKK. Foreign language tour (additional): Adults 40,- SKK, Students 30,- SKK, Children (4-15) 20,- SKK. |
| Classification: |
Karst cave,
Middle Triassic limestones.
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| Light: | electric. |
| Dimension: | L=530m, A=784m asl. |
| Guided tours: | L=325m, D=35min. |
| Bibliography: | |
| Address: |
Važecká Jaskyna, 032 61 Vazec, Tel: +421-844-5294171.
Správa Slovenských Jaskýn, Hodžova 11, 031 01 Liptovský Mikuláš, +421-849-5536411, Fax: +421-849-5536311. E-mail: |
| Last update: | $Date: 2007/11/19 21:32:48 $ |
| 1922 | new parts discovered by Ondrej A Huska. | |
| 1934 | provisionally open to the public. | |
| 1960s | palaeontological excavations. |
Vazecka Cave is an important finding-place of
cave bear
bones (Ursus spelaeus).
The entrance hall of this cave was easy accessible for ten thousands of years.
Because of the importance of this cave as an bear cave, the original size
sculpture of an cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is located
in the entrance portal, where it is freely accessible even without a cave tour.
The sculpture is 2.5m long and 1.5m high and shows the adukt male bear in an
relaxed rest position on all fours.
New panels around the cave explain the palaeontological background in Slovak and
English.
The cave passage turns left soon after the entrance. The tour follows a narrow passage, the most narrow part of the cave, where the path turns right again to enter the main passage. This huge passage is parallel to the smaller passage starting behind the portal, both run northeast to southwest. The tour follows the main passage to the center of the passage, where the trail branches off an following the left branch the tour soon returns to the branch from the right passage. This loop leads to the Kostnica (charnel house), one of the important bear bone sites in the cave. The cave bones were excavated during the 1960s and are now on exhibit in various museums of the area
Newest research with the bones from the 1960 excavations between 2005 and 2007 tried to determine its age. The result was an age around 50,000 years.
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The cave is close to the main Liptovsky Mikulas to Poprad road and the entrance chamber has always been open. In 1922 Ondrej A Huska found an opening leading into some generous sized passage up to 30 m wide and containing a large collection of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) bones. The cave is noted for its fine display of speleothems. There is an excellent taped English commentary and very enthusiastic guides. A new Cave House is under construction [2002] Text by Tony Oldham (2002). With kind permission. |
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