Lednitsa Cave is located 7.5 km west of the village of Gela (Smolyansko), in an old beech forest, near the Lednitsa hut. The cave is part of the Zlosten karst area, declared a natural landmark. Some of the most famous, mostly abyssal, caves are concentrated here on an area of 358 ha, one of which is Lednitsa.
The “Glacier” is undeveloped and not suitable for mass visits, and for this purpose the road to it and its entrance are not well marked. The cave is 242 metres deep and 1525 metres long, but only about 100 metres are accessible for visiting (and then only with an escort – qualified cavers). It is a complex of alternating galleries, chasms, thresholds, small halls, etc. Its entrance is narrow (you have to climb through a trapdoor), but the antechamber is large and looks like an altar with a high ceiling. From here natural steps descend about 7m to the ‘great platform’. There are small terraces decorated with transparent domes – large stalactites and stalagmites of ice.
The name of the cave comes from the thin crust of ice that covers the walls of the entrance hall and its associated narrow gallery for most of the year.
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