Even Max\u00edk and Majka couldn't stop laughing when they imagined their grandmother brewing and drinking tea from a prehistoric animal and thinking it was the magic arrow of Perun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When they remembered their grandmother, Max\u00edk took out his backpack, opened it and looked for something in it. After a while he took out a strange, twisted piece of iron, put it in his mouth between his teeth and started to strum on it, opening his mouth strangely. The iron played beautifully. It was like a frog jumping while still dancing with a seahorse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What is it, Max\u00edk?\" Ka\u0161ko asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That's a drumstick,\" he handed the playing iron to Ka\u0161ko, \"but you promised us two seas...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Right. Nearby is the real Slovak sea! Shall we go?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Let's go!\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children stood up, but Ka\u0161ko was still strumming his drumstick. He liked the sound so much that he couldn't stop playing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Shall we go?\" the children exclaimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Excuse me?\" Ka\u0161ko woke up from his musical rapture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children just rolled their eyes, and it was clear to Ka\u0161ko what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I'm coming!\" Ka\u0161ko announced, strumming the drumstick for the last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They got back on the bus and drove to the Zempl\u00ednska \u0160\u00edrava lake. From behind the window, they watched the glittering surface of the water, on which boats were sailing and fishermen were resting on the banks or children were frolicking. The trip was fantastic. Max\u00edk found two more echoing shanks and dried poppies in his rucksack. They immediately formed a band and started playing and singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\"And here we are! The Slovak Sea in the country of Haravara.\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ka\u0161ko wanted to make this magical moment more enjoyable. He took a drumstick between his teeth. He pulled the iron and... pop! He hit his teeth and his lips terribly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yaaaaaw! I need some water!\" Ka\u0161ko shouted like mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Majka and Max\u00edk scooped water and put it on his mouth. Max\u00edk put one drop in his mouth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Ka\u0161ko, you deceived us, because the water is not salty at all!\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And?\" Ka\u0161ko wondered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"And the sea is salty.\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Every sea in the world is salty, but not the Slovak one. Look, it's not about whether it's salty or whether it's huge, but look, the sea, it's that feeling of looking at the water and not seeing the end of it. And there you have it.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ka\u0161ko noticed that Majka and Max\u00edk were quite frightened and were looking at the surface of the \u0160\u00edrava sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He turned his head and almost flew away. About three thousand and fifty fish heads glistened on the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fish just opened their mouths and Ka\u0161ko started, \"Hello. Nice and slow, slowly, let just one speak!\" Ka\u0161ko looked a bit like a fool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He watched the fish open their mouths dumbly and answered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What? You need help. Well, okay, okay. Wait a minute.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Are you coming with me?\" he asked the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Where?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"To help the fish.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You understand them? ' Max\u00edk and Majka shook their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I am deducting from their lips. I learned that from my great-great-uncle Jany,\" Ka\u0161ko boasted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Are you coming?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before his surprised friends could answer him, Ka\u0161ko pulled a plant out of his pocket, put it in their mouths and grabbed their hands. Before they knew it, they were underwater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"This plant is miraculous and will help you to swim and breathe underwater for half an hour.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children were amazed, their eyes lit up and they wanted to say something. But as soon as they opened their mouths, Ka\u0161ko interfered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Yes, yes, it's the cousin of the plant Harry Potter used.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the children recovered, they opened their eyes and went completely mute. They saw a fish town under the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Here, where \u0160\u00edrava is today, there used to be fields and an airport. These were flooded with water. And today it's home to many species of fish, frogs, crayfish, and three stray turtles.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They saw the little fish chasing each other around the underwater hills and swimming so fast they looked as if they were about to fly away from the underwater airport. Instead of trees and flowers, there were aquatic plants growing. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were still swimming for fish. Suddenly, out of nowhere, they stopped and Ka\u0161ko understood. The fish welcomed them to their kingdom, the only flooded building under the surface of the \u0160\u00edrava. They hadn't expected such a VIP tour with their own guides at all. Divers often come here, but they are not always interested in fish company. The \u0160\u00edrava inhabitants were all the happier about the new visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
'We need your help', cried the fish.
\"One of the chimneys on the building is leaning dangerously and we are afraid it might fall completely and hurt someone,\" explained one fish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without blinking, Ka\u0161ko and Max\u00edk rolled up their sleeves, swam to the roof and propped the chimney with a wooden beam they found fallen nearby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That's it!\" they clapped their hands and winked at Majka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Hooray! Thank you!\" cried the fish excitedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"You have saved our kingdom, my friends! We will be forever grateful to you! Come again next time and feel free to bring other children. They certainly won't be bored on the Zempl\u00ednska \u0160\u00edrava lake\", one of the fish was delighted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were given four lucky fish scales as souvenirs and escorted to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"That was wonderful!\" Max\u00edk exclaimed happily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"I'd like to see what it looked like here a long time ago, when there was no water at all,\" sighed Majka romantically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Maybe I know where we could find such pictures and where you would feel like in the times when our sea wasn't here yet,\" Ka\u0161ko mused, \"there is a city called Michalovce not far away. There is an old manor house there. There's a museum there now, but Aunt Szirmay used to live there, and she used to make the best stuffed cabbage in the world.\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But we didn't want cabbage!\" shouted the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"But they don't put out cabbages! But there are paintings by my friend, the painter Uncle Mousson, and photos of old Michalovce and its surroundings. Maybe in some painting or photo we will find your houses.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The children were already quite tired, so they didn't take the bus. Ka\u0161ko transported them by magic and during the flight they even dried off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mansion was beautiful. Apart from paintings and photos, the children found a lot of interesting things there. For example, the Venus of Haravara land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At night Max\u00edk and Majka slept like dumb fish. They put fish scales of happiness under their pillows. That night they dreamed the most beautiful dreams.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201eA sme tu! Slovensk\u00e9 more v krajine Haravara.\u201c \u017de Slovensko more nem\u00e1? Mo\u017eno teraz u\u017e nie, no kedysi bola cel\u00e1 Haravara podmorskou krajinou.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":630,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-59","pribehy","type-pribehy","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n