"Our world’s caves are places of wonder, mystery and majestic beauty. Show caves around the world are embracing their role in protecting and preserving caves and providing a place for people to learn about these special, natural, cultural and historical resources.

Show caves also play another important nature tourism role of sustainable economic development, providing jobs, and helping the economy of their regions.”

Demänovská Ice Cave

The Demänovská Ice Cave presents the northern part of world known Demänovské Caves. It stands out by occurrence of permanent ice fill, bizarre and mighty shapes of underground spaces, rare cave fauna as well as rich history.

Basic info

The show path is 650 m long with vertical span of 48 m. The entrance and exit are at the same elevation, only  40 m away one from the other. The stay in cave lasts about 45 min. The temperature during summer months fluctuates between +0,4°C and +3°C.
The show path goes through mighty river passages interconnected by steep sections. The first part of the tour leads through cave spaces with flowstone decoration and the second part is in the iced spaces of the cave.
The combination of flowstone and ice decoration offers a very interesting tour for visitors, where they can learn on forming cave spaces, cave decoration and conditions for glaciation and also on the influence of ice on original calcite fill. The cave spaces consist of oval, river modelled passages and domes reshaped by collapses and frost weathering.

Contact

Address: Hodžova 11
Town / City: 031 01 Liptovský Mikuláš
Country: Slovak Republic

Email:demladj@ssj.sk
Phone: +421/(0)44/ 554 81 70
Web: www.ssj.sk

Latitude: 49.0162467957
Longitude: 19.5827751160

Info

Name: Demänovská Ice Cave
Name original: Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa
ISCA member: SLOVAK CAVES ADMINISTRATION
Length: 1975 m
Depth: 57 m
Elevation of entrance: 840 m
Number of visitors: 0 / per year
Temperature: 0.40 - 3.00 °C
Length of show path: 650 m
Duration of visit: 45 min

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