Price: Topchika cave is located southwest of the village Dobrostan in the area Sushica and covers an area of 2 ha. The easiest way to reach the cave hut Martsiganitsa , going southwest . Hiking is about an hour each way.
The cave has a total length of 727 meters and place leveling up to 61 meters. The cave is multi- branched and . It is available for inexperienced visitors, as well as children, but only in the upper room. Interest is the lower hall that connects to the top by 50 -foot cliff.
Mapping is in the 60s of last century. 38 years ago in " Topchika " is held the first cave experiment with four cavers from Plovdiv, who stayed 30 days in a 60-foot gap in completely natural conditions. On this occasion has published book "Sky of Stone" .
Years ago, the cave was used for drying fruits and herbs and was guarded .
Topchika cave was inhabited by primitive people in old-iron era. From this period were discovered paintings and engravings of animals ( horse, deer, goat ) , remains of animals ( molar tooth of a cave bear canine , cervical and sacral vertebrae of the spine , jaw ruminants , etc. . ) And ceramics. Outdoor full skeleton of a cave bear . Labor process and production at the time may be inferred from the unearthed pottery - fragments of small and medium-sized pottery . The cave has opened Old signs and glass bottle , which over the years has calcified and looks petrified . Along the right wall of the cave , about 80 m . from the entrance on the block ever fallen from the roof are carved figures of animals. Again, there was found an inscription in old Slavic written by a hermit who was later destroyed in an awkward attempt to impression taking - estampazh .
The cave found artifacts from the early Iron Age and V-III century BC.
In 1970 Topchika cave was declared a natural landmark. Topchika cave was declared a protected natural site as a refuge for a large colony of bats.
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