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10. Waitomo Caves



One of the most famous attractions of New Zealand is located near the town of Waitomo. These caves - home of the famous underground worms: tiny creatures the size of a mosquito that glow brightly in the darkness. The caves were formed about 30 million years ago and contain amazing stone ornaments, deep passages, framed by limestone, and the stunning Cathedral Hall, famous for its incredible acoustics. 9. Cave reed flutes


"Natural Art Palace" - sometimes referred to as the most beautiful caves in the north-west of Guilin in China. According to legend, the cave got its name because of the belief that cane growing at the entrance to it, you can make a flute. Limestone cave opens up in front of their visitors the magical land of stalactites, stalagmites and stone colors and animals of different shapes and colors.

8. Crystal Cave


This cave was discovered only in 2000 by miners in northern Mexico. In the main hall of the cave are the largest crystals ever found underground. The biggest of them reaching 11 meters in length and 4 - in diameter; It weighs as much as 55 tons. With its huge size crystals are required incredible heat: the temperature inside the cave sometimes reaches 58 degrees. By the way, for the same reason most of the cave has not yet been explored: to be in it more than a few minutes is possible only if special protective clothing.

7. Underground River Puerto Princesa


The famous underground river flows under the jungle-covered mountain range on the north coast of the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Until the discovery of the underwater river on the Mexican Yucatan in 2007, is the length of Puerto Princesa underground river in the world. However, she remains to this day the longest underground river on which it is possible to swim from start to finish. It stretches for 8, 2 km inside the beautiful caves and flows into the South China Sea.

6. Cave Eisriesenwelt


The name of the cave can be translated from the German as "a world of ice giants." This is the largest ice cave in the world - it is stretched by as much as 42 kilometers inside a mountain in the Austrian Alps Hochkogel. Like most other caves in the world, it was established Eisriesenwelt river, pierced deep in the mountain passes. But the bizarre ice formations cave owes abundant snow that plastered the walls of the cave during a blizzard and frozen forever.

5. Mammoth Cave


The longest cave system in the world cut up land for Kentucky nearly 600 kilometers (if you fold the length of all its passes in one piece). Already in 1941, the cave was awarded the title of the national park, and in 1981 entered the UNESCO World Heritage List. At the same time before the end of the cave has not yet been studied: it constantly open up new rooms and passages. Only a small part of the cave is open to visitors, lit by electricity. In addition, the curious can go to the "wild" tours of unrefined passages in the light of headlamps.

4. Ice Cave National Park Skattafel


The most famous glacial caves in the world with an unpronounceable name Kverkfjöll is located in Iceland. The issue is due to the hot springs at the foot of the glacier. Unfortunately, this natural wonder may one day disappear from the face of the earth: for it nearby volcanoes exhibit threatening activity.

3. Carlsbad Caverns


This cave in the US state of New Mexico is considered one of the most beautiful in the world, its vast halls richly decorated with elements of underground classics such as patterned stalactites and stalagmites, and the like education, formed over thousands of years of interaction of water and limestone. And among the luxurious rooms and exquisite galleries found a house thousands of bats, which are the pack as a separate attraction. Unlike most underground systems, Carlsbad Caverns were cut in the earth with water and sulfuric acid formed due to the close neighborhood of the local oil and gas deposits.

2. The Škocjan Caves


The underground karst system in Slovenia brings together a unique education, long passageways, underground rivers with waterfalls and deep ravines, the bridge over one of which resembles a frame from the film "The Lord of the Rings." The cave is created with a modest river called River (original, right?). The river originates on the surface, and then suddenly disappears under the ground in order to "come up" to the surface already in Italy, near the Adriatic coast.

1. Deer Cave (Gunung Mulu)


Deer Cave, lost in the jungle in the Malaysian part of Borneo is one of the largest caves in the world. The walls of her cave holds the greatest room in the world - Sarawak room, reaching 700 meters in length, 396 - in width and at least 70 - in height. Every evening at the entrance to the cave is possible to observe an impressive sight: like a cloud flock of bats flies on the hunt of its huge entrance.