The Djalovića Cave is located 25 kilometers from Bijelo Polje and is considered one of the most beautiful and largest in Europe.
The Djalovica Cave is located 25 kilometers from Bijelo Polje and is considered one of the most beautiful and largest in Europe.
Scientists classify the Dinaric Highlands as the youngest type of mountain – the Alpine fold; its geological age is no more than 65 million years.
It is known that the process of mountain formation in the regions of Montenegro has not yet been completed. In the rocky depths, nature has created and continues to create caves of unique beauty and scale with giant halls, rivers and lakes.
For example, some of the vaults of the Djalovica Cave reach a height of 30 meters.
Since 1987, Belgrade speleologists began to study the Djalovica Cave, which is today called the year of its discovery.
Presumably, the total length with many branches of the cave is more than 200 kilometers.
By 1997, after ten years of study, scientists had advanced 10 kilometers into the cave, and then Czech speleologists increased this number by another 9 kilometers.
The Djalović Cave was in the so-called "unused state" for a long time. This is primarily due to its territorial location: the entrance is located on the territory of Montenegro, but the entire cave is on Serbian territory.
Neither side was in a hurry to invest in development, fearing that someone would take advantage of someone else's achievements.
Despite this, specialists from many countries continued to study the Djalović Cave and as a result, everyone unanimously came to the conclusion that this object is not just a unique natural phenomenon, but also has significant speleological value.
The path to the cave runs from the city of Kolasin to the nearest settlement to the cave - the village of Djalovići.
This route takes about a couple of hours, from the village to the cave itself is another hour of walking. The main entrance to the cave passes over two lakes called Chertovy Omuty. By summer, they usually dry up.
Excursions to the cave are classified as extreme tourism, and therefore only experienced speleologists, well prepared physically and psychologically, are allowed to descend.
Today, you can inspect about 2.5 kilometers of the cave.
The excursion is long in time, inspecting only the cave itself after the descent takes about 4 hours, the ascent can reach 2 hours.
