Šum waterfall (Згорнья Бесница)

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The here described Šum waterfall is situated on the Nemiljščica creek, near Zgornja Besnica, and should be distinguished from the Šum waterfall on the Radovna river.

The Šum waterfall on Nemiljščica has an altitude of ca. 20 m and, depending on the season, quite a lot of water. The easiest route to the waterfall comes from the Nova vas village, near Zgornja Besnica. From the main road good inscriptions are directing us down into the gorge (15 minutes). The path is quite steep, but is in the last, steepest part well protected by a wooden fence.

The visit of Šum waterfall is incorpoprated into the 'Besnica Learning Path (Učna pot Besnica), called also the "Rovnik-slap Šum path". That's a circular path which in addition to the waterfall visits also the nearby karst hill Rovnik, in which there are a few karst caves (with some decoration) and on the hill there's also a place where oligocene fossiles were discovered.

It's interesting as well that above the Šum waterfall once the warm water source was captured. The spa was mentioned already centuries ago, a basin was buil in 1954, but today the place is completely abandoned.