Novakuša Cave
Description
Novakuša Cave is one of the most impressive natural gems of the municipality of Nevesinje and has been declared a natural monument. Hidden at the bottom of a stone amphitheater with vertical cliffs up to one hundred meters high, it greets visitors right at the entrance: the opening, seventy meters wide and twenty meters high, ranks it among the caves with the largest entrances in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beyond this monumental threshold lies a huge chamber, from which vertical and horizontal passages branch out.
One of them leads to a smaller chamber where, according to legend, the hajduk Starina Novak hid during his outlaw days, and there is still a visible stone slab in it that tradition says was his bed. The cave is full of cave formations, and research is still in its early stages — speleologists estimate that the passages continue far into the depths. Novakuša is untouched, wild, and unforgettable.
Starina Novak Cave
The cave was named by the famous Balkan hajduk Starina Novak, who, according to legend, found refuge there during his outlaw days. In a smaller chamber, reached by one of the passages from the main room, there is still a rectangular stone slab said to have been the hajduk's bed. This legend gives the cave a special aura of mystery, but even without it, it would be no less impressive — its chambers and passages are rich in cave formations that, as locals like to say, even the greatest artists could not have imagined.
What awaits inside and access
