Caves: where are the most beautiful and magnificent caves in the world?

Question

Has anyone here visited amazing caves and if so, where are the best and most wonderful caves in the world, in your opinion?

Answer 1

In the island of Palawan has the best caves in the world.

1. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park.

2. Tabon Caves.

Look at this:

http://visitpuertoprincesa.com/index.php...

http://www.pcsd.ph/photo_gallery/wonders...

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im...

Answer 2

best I've seen are the Wisconsin Dells and areas like the lost sea in tennessee.

Carlesbad cavers is also great (in Arizona I believe). Anyway, there is one cave that has all sorts of amathysits and topaz and other crystal gems growing out of the rocks. During a specific time of the day, the sun comes in and illuminates the gemstones and it looks like a fairy land.

Lots of couples get married there.

Happy caving.

Answer 3

That film The Descent had some nice ones..

Answer 4

I just love Fern Grotto, its so clear with the water below you and the caves that I have seen were two of them one in Mesa Verde in Colorado although its not a cave its very interesting to see and know the history of it. the other one is in Indiana. There are many in indiana and they are full of bats if you like bats then these places are for you.

Answer 5

underground!!!

Answer 6

"Most beautiful" cave discovered in Phong Nha-Ke Bang



VNECONOMY updated: 20/07/2005



British explorers have recently discovered a new cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Quang Binh province, which they classified as the world's most beautiful, magnificent cave, park officials said on July 18.

The cave, found in the core zone of the park, which was recognised as a world heritage site by UNESCO in July 2003, has a width of nearly 200m and a ceiling height of around 100m, with some places measuring even higher. The cave's total length has not yet been determined.

Home to uncountable stalactites bearing mysterious and magnificent beauty, the cave was named "Paradise" by the British explorers and the park.

Howt Bert, a member of the British explorers group of the Royal Court and also a renowned speleologist, said no cave in the world could compare with "Paradise" in terms of its beauty.

The Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is located to the north of the Truong Son mountain range. Home to abundant limestone formations, it is considered an ideal site for researchers and explorers of grottoes and caves.

The park covers 85,000 hectares, including the oldest limestone mountain range in Asia. It has a system of nearly 300 caves, including Phong Nha cave, and dozens of unexplored mountain peaks of more than 1,000 metres, such as Co Rilata (1,128m) and Co Preu (1,213m).

Vietnamese and British scientists have so far surveyed more than 20 grottoes and caves, of which 17 are in Phong Nha with the remaining three in Ke Bang.

The Phong Nha cave that lends its name to the entire system is probably the most beautiful with many fascinating rock formations carrying evocative names such as The Lion, the Fairy Caves, the Royal Court and Buddha.

Phong Nha also boasts long underground rivers, large caverns and passageways, wide pristine sand banks and astonishing rock formations.

The park's tropical forest is home to 36 of the more than 750 rare plant species and 89 animal species listed by the Viet Nam Red Book as endangered or protected.

The area is also home to archaeological relics, such as the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Cham, and historical sites such as King Ham Nghi's base built for the war against French colonialists, and the Xuan Son ferry station, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Road 20 used during the American war.

Answer 7

In my opinion the Lechuguilla cave in the USA.

Answer 8

Deepest...

1) Réseau Jean Haute-Savoie France..1602m

2) Shakta Pantjukhina, Georgia...1508m

3) Sistema del Trave, Asturias, Spain.....1441m

Longest..

1) Mammoth Cave Kentucky.....348miles

2) Optimisticeskaya, Ukraine....103 miles

3) Hölloch, Schwyz, Switzerland...133miles.

Largest cave chambers..

1) Sarawak Chamber,Lubang Nasib bagus,Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia has an area of 162,700 cu m.It's 700m long with an average width of 300m and a minimum height of 70m.

2) Torca del Carlista, Spain....76,600 cu m.

3) Majlis al Jinn, Oman...58,000 cu m.

Answer 9

I don't like caves, I like caverns.

Answer 10

The Cango Caves, Oudtshoorn, South Africa - first visited in 1992 and then again in 2006 - quite an experience to have whilst underground!