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The Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes (in German: Saalfelder Feengrotten) are caverns or grottoes of a former mine near Saalfeld, in the German state of Thuringia. [1]They have long been famous for their countless colorful mineral formations (speleothems) formed over many years by water dripping through relatively soft rock.
Passage in Secret Caverns. Secret Cave is part of a larger cave system, the Secret-Benson Cave System, which consists of 6,200 feet (1,900 m) of passage. [4] [5]The show cave starts at the discovery entrance, which has mostly been sealed with concrete with a small opening to allow bats to enter and exit the cave, although bat populations has been low since an outbreak of White-nose syndrome in ...
Cathedral Caverns is a karst cave with a large stalagmite forest covering approximately 3 acres (1.2 ha). The public portion of the cave extends along 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) wheelchair-accessible, concrete walkways for approximately 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and has some 2 miles (3.2 km) of paths; another 2,700 feet (820 m) extend beyond the end of the pathway. [3]
Stefania Follini (born 16 August 1961) is an Italian interior designer.She is known for being involved in a 1989 experiment on circadian rhythms, in which she voluntarily isolated herself for four months in an underground room thirty feet down a cave in Carlsbad, New Mexico, away from all outside indications of night and day. [1]
Sea cave of Toll a' Roimh on Garbh Eilean In 1549, Donald Monro , Dean of the Isles wrote in Scots of: "an isle called Ellan Senta, which means in English "fable island", an isle more than two miles [three kilometres] long, very profitable for grain, stock-rearing and fishing, pertaining to McLeod of Lewis .
Fantastic Caverns is a show cave located in Springfield, Missouri. Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in North America to offer a completely ride-through tour, which lasts 55 minutes and is held in a Jeep-drawn tram. [1] [2] The trams drive along the path left behind by an ancient underground river. [3]
The Celtic Otherworld, in the myths and folktales from ancient Ireland, can be reached inside a hill, or through the depths of a lake, or across the sea. Oisín is taken by the sea to the Land of Youth, Tír na nÓg, by Niamh, the daughter of the king of that country, and he returns to Ireland a few weeks later only to find that many hundreds of years have passed in his absence. [1]
The guided tours follow well-maintained paths and stairways that lead into various sections of the cave. The cave maintains a constant temperature of about eight to ten degrees Celsius and has humidity levels exceeding 80 percent. A typical guided tour lasts approximately 45 minutes and covers a path of about 300 meters, which includes about ...