KAP Jasa

While KAP Jasa kite society is mainly doing kite aerial photography, we do kites too … We have made a couple of KAP workhorses (a venerable Rokakku, a couple of deltas, Millie the french military kite, a fled and a Royal 69 sled), but we designed and made some showkites too – to fly them … Read more

Yes, we do visit the intermittent Lake Cerknica often. And for a good reason; it is one of the natural wonders of this part of Europe, and it’s a changeling. Every season – no, every month, every week, sometimes even during one day! – it shows a different face. A new, wondrous, unknown, beautful face. … Read more

It’s beer o’clock somewhere, right? This is the main building of Union Brewery – Pivovarna Union – the brewery of Ljubljana (and, according to one member of KAP Jasa team, the producer of the best, if not the only beer in the world – others are just fizzy drinks with low alcohol content). It’s logotype … Read more

We gave up. We admit – we tried, but we failed. We must concede defeat. Stržen creek flows through the dried-up Lake Cerknica. The intermittent Lake Cerknica is one of the greatest karst wonders of the world, an exceptional and fragile ecoysytem, a true mystery of Nature. People living by the lake were using its … Read more

River Mura is the last large lowlands river in Slovenia that still retains its pristine character. Slowly flowing across the Pomurje plain Mura is a biodiversity hotspot, a Natura 2000 area hosting many endangered fish, birds and plants species. In 2018 the river and its floodplain was registered as a UNESCO biosphere reserve; it includes … Read more

As soon as we – Homo sapiens – emerged from them gloomy caves and started to live under the sun, we joined a selected group of animals that had had enough of constant adapting to the environment, and chose a different strategy: to change the environment in order to better suit their lifestyle. And thus … Read more

So now that our Kite society KAP Jasa is all set, we got busy thinking how to do some community outreach, how to bring the kites – kite making, kite flying, and kite aerial photography – closer to the people. In Slovenia there is no kite tradition, apart from those kites your father bought you, … Read more

We talk a lot about Ljubljana Marshes, that 160 sq km marshy plain south of Ljubljana, and we have reasons for that. First, there is a lot of natural, archaeological, and historical moments to be found here (Iška moor nature reserve, prehistoric pile dwellings, Plecnik’s church), and second, the Marshes are flat and perfect for … Read more

The past is buried, and some say it should stay that way. Not archaeologists, though – they want just the opposite. But how do you know where exactly are the remains of the world long gone – so that you don’t dig just everywhere and hope to get lucky? This is the church of St. … Read more