Seven thousand visitors for 7 months in the Gadida Cave

And visitors have already increased, since many vacation exiles prefer to spend one day in the marble cave.

The Gadime Cave with all its elements every day and more is attracting large numbers of visitors even from outside Kosovo, who want to see this marble cave that is the only one in Europe of such kind.

Sunday for this tour guide Fatmir Bytycin is extremely busy, as it for many groups throughout the day provides explanations.

A large number of visitors go from behind to look at all the figures he explains. The first place to stop is “Desire Fonta”, where visitors hunt coins in the belief that wishes will be satisfied.

“People in the past have fired a coin and thought of a wish, whether or not it was realized, we cannot know”, he said.

After the visitors drop coins, they continue to follow the guide to another location.

He explains that the Gadia cave is naturally rich in groundwater. The guide tells them that all kinds of cave waters are represented - condensed waters, leaks, streams, and stabilizers, transforming the Gadida cave into a particular hydrologic object.

The subterranean lake, the water is chemically very clean is visible with eyes. The water is clear that is primarily supplied by atmospheric rainfall, which means gradually and comes to cave”, he said.

Then he takes them to the most frequent phenomenon in this cave.

The most frequent phenomeni in this cave is the presence of stalactites and stalagmites, stalactia, these are the ones that grow from the top down and are made of ice, while stalagmites are from below. When they come together, they form like this case here or the cave poles. And the largest stalagnate to be in this cave so far is this one here and in the gases of the geologists who have measured it have found that the cave is an old cave some 80 million years”, he tells them.

On the way to visit the cave, visitors pause to look at Skenderbe's beard.

There's a figure up there that's also called Skenderbe's beard, that's what it's called because it looks like a lot. And here's a flag with a spear. Here everything is natural except electrification and concrete, it's not touched by the hands of the man”, he indicated.

The guide explaining to visitors the specifics of this cave says that a wealth of it is the presence of aragonites, which are a rare phenomenon.

There are some crystals here, there are no ice, there are crystals that are very rare in caves all over the world, they are called aragonite, and they are the only crystals that have broken the Earth's gravity rule or the law of gravity. The dots do not drop down by spreading them and grow in different directions. Here we are in front of a gallery that is quite amazing, and it's also called a love garden, so it's called because here we have a stalactite and stalagmite that has been named Romeo and Juliet in the past. It takes another 1 million years to unify these two”, Bytyci said.

There are 2,000 square metres that are arranged for visitors, while the cave is divided into two floors. And visitors are the ones who stand amazed at the characteristics of this cave.

Ardian Kadolli of Suhareka and his children were visiting the cave for the second time, which he says is amazing.

The view is very good, it's an old cave, there are interesting things that are different phenomena here, and I'm very pleased. I hope there's as many visitors as possible and as many people as there are not seen in Kosovo many of this cave, I'd like many of them all to come and visit and see that the beauty they're looking at... I see that it's good, I normally know that the cave is bigger than the actual levels than there is, I wish they could open up new paths and see what's there, because there's enough material to be discovered<1>, he said.

Besim Unman was also visiting the cave along with his family. He lives with families in Denmark, but he is originally from Gamim, who he says boasts this natural beauty of his homeland.

This is the second time, since I'm local, I'm not living here in Denmark. The cave is fantastic, as the locals should even make a little ad on the cave, but the cave needs to be visited for sure, is something that we are proud of as a gadimal, and Kosovo certainly should boast of... for Kosovo institutions not to talk at all about investing in the cave but should invest in everything. Understandably, it must be invested”, he said.

It is not only Albanians who visit this cave. Castine Loni tourist from Germany is thrilled by the beauty of the Gadima Cave.

The interesting thing that for years has been maintained and that has stayed is very interesting”, she said.

Gadime's cave, Vjollca Kadolli, had visited her before the war, and she has returned once again to see the cave now with her two children.

She lives in Switzerland and says that the cave is wonderful.

“The cave is very interesting that when I was in high school before the war I was here, there's a big difference, very well compared to then, especially now with the kids here that we've come... More invested here than somewhere else it's not worth it, it's a very good investment than for kids it's very interesting for us too. I'd rather come here than visit from anywhere else”, she said.

And her son, Blade Cadoll, says everything in the cave is interesting.

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Visitors say that while the cave is wonderful, institutions should take better care of it. Investment in this cave, according to Adriana Plana, leader of the Gadime MNRV Cave, was made last year only in the maintenance of the electrical network and in maintaining external infrastructure.

Last year, 27 thousand, 485 visitors visited this cave.

We remember that the Gadime Cave was discovered in 1967 by Ahmet Aslan and is located in the village of Gadime and the Low Village of Lipjan, 3km away from the Pristina-Ferizaj magical road. It is counted as a monument to nature of special importance.