Explore Gjonovica Cave ("Beauty")

Max People: 20

Min Age: 12+

The Gjonovica cave (popularly called "Beauty") is located on Monutain Bukovik, near the Gostivar village of Gorna Gjonovica. To reach it, you have to walk about fifteen kilometers along the old macadam road Gostivar- Kičevo. And then, fifty meters above the road, you will see the entrance of this peral of underground beauties. The name "Beauty" is given because of the impressive stalagmite in the form of a female silhouette, but also because of the great wealth of various underground natural ornaments. In the bigger part of the Gjonovica Cave, with the exception of the entrance canal (85m), there is a constant underground watercourse. In addition to the numerous and varied cave ornaments abounding in the cave, the last cave extension (10 x 13m), in which there is an underground waterfall of 5-6 meters, is particularly interesting. It represents a giant boiler, where the water from the waterflow makes a swirl. The 6 meters high waterfall and the beautiful cave jewelry reveal the beauty of the underworld. Recently, cave fauna has been explored in the Gjonovica Cave, when the endemic representative of the genus Ceutnophies, called Ceutnophiesboukoviki was registered.

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Gostivar, North Macedonia