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Overview
About Šupljara Cave
Why stop
- Three connected halls and a rare through-passage
- A close look at the park’s karst geology
Heads up
- Steep, narrow stairs and damp footing on the approach
Map
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide
Your drive to Šupljara Cave, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Plitvice Lakes National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Entrance 1 and the Lower Lakes0:00 / 0:33
“You're approaching Entrance One, the starting point for the Lower Lakes canyon. Just beyond the ticket gate, the overlook gives you the broad view of Veliki Slap and the smaller cascades below.”
Plays as you drive up to Šupljara Cave in the Parkwolf Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Broad Lakes, Narrow Canyon
- The Opera Singer and the Cascades
- Spring Arrives First in the Canyon
- Hotel Jezero and Kozjak Café
- 39 audio storiesacross Plitvice Lakes’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Beaver, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 15 trails, 36 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
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Guide
More about Šupljara Cave
A short geological detourŠupljara Cave is a 68 m natural passage in the Lower Lakes canyon, near Kaluđerovac Lake.
Šupljara Cave is a 68 m natural passage in the Lower Lakes canyon, near Kaluđerovac Lake. It links two levels of the canyon walk, so the visit feels different from staying on the lakeside path. If stairs suit you and you want a closer look at the park’s karst, this is a worthwhile side trip; if not, the lakes and waterfalls are enough.
Expect a steep approachYou reach the cave on foot by climbing narrow stairs that can be damp.
You reach the cave on foot by climbing narrow stairs that can be damp. The entrance is not wheelchair accessible. The passage is short, but the climb is the part to consider before you set off.
Three halls and a stone columnInside, three halls connect through a spacious corridor.
Inside, three halls connect through a spacious corridor. Look for the knobby cave formations and a stalagnate column, where a stalactite and stalagmite have joined.
A collapse in the limestoneThe cave began when the floor of a sinkhole gave way; that floor had also been the roof of a…
The cave began when the floor of a sinkhole gave way; that floor had also been the roof of a cave below. Water shaped the wider karst landscape over long spans through its carbonate rock. In 1964, Šupljara and two other caves in the Lower Lakes and Korana canyon were declared geomorphological monuments of nature.
Look back from the upper exitThe through-route brings you back to the canyon’s upper path, where visitors describe a view…
The through-route brings you back to the canyon’s upper path, where visitors describe a view over the Lower Lakes. For a photo with context, include the canyon beyond the cave opening rather than framing only the dark interior.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Plitvice Lakes
20 sightingsBeaverMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
29 sightingsGrey HeronMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
14 sightingsGreat CormorantMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
84 sightingsMerganserMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
13 sightingsDipperMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
201 sightingsMallardMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Plitvice Lakes. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
