Slovenia caving permit

[first-ade]

I've been doing some reading getting ready for a trip to Slovenia this summer, and it appears we need to get caving permits for our group. Has anyone got experience of getting these?

 

[CavingForLemons]

I have, in 2023. Will message you directly

 

[mikem]

"A caving permit is required and, despite Dave’s efforts, ours arrived at Greenclose the week we got back." https://northernpennineclub.org.uk/blog/20191004-slovenia-august-2019/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Slovenia/comments/17c7ovs/caving

 

[DaveyDubz]

Permit for independent caving

www.jamarska-zveza.si

The form is downloadable from this website. It's free and does not expire but does require you to post the documents (listed on the website) so it's better if you gather them all up together to send. The Post office can Notarize a copy of your passport.

 

[first-ade]

Just to update on this, we managed to get the permits ok, looks like they're no longer requiring passport copies to be notorised, happy to accept copies certified by a professional now.

 

[Ed]

We pick our permits up in person from the off in Ljubljana - good little display there and made very welcome

 

[first-ade]

Various caves that we did on the cave walk all had through bolts as well, though some were lacking nuts so you might want to bring spares.

 

[testgerbil]

Just to say that some of us GSG members went to Slovenia this year and we all applied for our permits individually - some of us got them back really rapidly, whereas others had to email on the trip to confirm they were on the system. Apparently, if you don't get the paper permit, often you will be on their database and they do respond relatively quickly to email.

Echo the point about the through bolts - everything we rigged was on these and we definitely needed spares at points (but actually, we just collected a bunch of nuts that were discarded about the various caves and this was enough).