Resava Pecina Cave

Resavska Pecina Cave – Resava cave is located in East Serbia, 20 km from the town of Despotovac in the carst hill called the Babina glava, at the edge of the Divljakovac carst field. Resavska Pecina Cave – Resava Cave was the first cave arranged for visits in Serbia /1972/ after ten years of excavations carried out by the speleologists of Novi Sad. Resava Pecina Cave is among the most visited caves of Serbia. The total length of the Resavska Pecina Cave – Resava cave is some 4,5 km of which 2,850 meters are explored and the tourist-visitor paths is 800 meters long.

Resavska Pecina Cave – Resava cave is one of the oldest in Serbia, whose age – existence was estimated to 80 million years, while the oldest cave jeweley and ornaments date 45 million years back to the past. Resavska Pecina Cave was formed on three levels with four halls that belong to the upper and the lower levels. The interior of the Resava Pecina Cave is rich in numerous different halls, canals, galleries, columns, stalaktites and stalagmites, draperies and petrified waterfalls. Some levels of the Resava Pecina Cave were originally only accessible to cavers and shepherds, but now the upper and lower galleries have been commercialized for tourists. The lowest level of Resavska Pecina Cave – Resava cave contains an underground river. The visitors to the Resava Cave tour the numerous halls of the Resava Pecina Cave, admiring its diversity and rich cave ornaments of amazing different shapes. The constant Resava Pecina cave temperature is 7 C degrees. Paths inside the Resava pecina cave might be slippery, so visitors are warmly recommended to make sure their shoes and clothes are appropriate, as the inside cave temperature is around 7°C.

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