Trieste Travel Forum

Hello! My boyfriend and I are will be in italy and slovenia in may and were wondering if we could do a daytrip to skojan caves from trieste? It looks much closer to trieste than it is to ljubljana but would transport from trieste be easy to come by? Any advice would be much appreciated!

oops that should of course have been skocjan caves, apologies for the bad spelling

Hi! It is not easy at all to get from Trieste to Skocjan caves, although they are not so far. There are only two trains connecting Trieste (actually Villa Opicina, the border station outside Trieste) to Ljubljana and none of them stops in Divaca, the closest station to the caves. The easiest way is to take the afternoon train from Villa Opicina to Ljubljana that leaves at 17.50, arrives in Postojna at 18.42, then take the IC train leaving at 19.11 that arrives in Divaca at 19.46. It's a long time for so few kilometres! Maybe a summer train between Venice and Budapest will be set up this summer, so you may already find it in May...

From downtown Trieste you can take the funicolar tramway (buy 1 hour transport ticket, 1 euro) and in 20 minutes reach the highland (400 mts. above sea level) with terrific panorama and a scenic route. From the tramway station above in Villa Opicina ( with the same transport ticket) you take the bus 42 (10 minutes) to the Giant Grotto, in the Guinnes book of records as the greatest touristic cave of the whole world...( ticket 8 euro with guided tour every hour included )

hi what is the easiest way from trieste to ljublana and what would the cost be?