Krasnohorska Cave

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Krásnohorská jaskyňa
It occurs only 500 metres in distance from the village border. The length of the cave is 1350 to 1450 metres. Interior spaces don't have any electrical lighting, lamps on helmets are used. Before the sightseeing of cave spaces, you get waterproof overall, safeguard helmet with small but all the more powerful lamp and appropriate briefing, in the store of guide service. After this preparation, your small adventurous trip in this really interesting cave can begin. At the beginning, you will pass the tunnel then continue by narrow pavement where wooden bench alternates with armed ropes and iron ladders that sometimes are in absolute vertical position. This route really doesn't have much in common with sightseeing routes in another caves. Roughly after one hour of slow moving forward, you will see first slight flows, which are changing to bigger and bigger. This is a signal that you are not far away from wishful destination. You will climb the last vertical ladder and you are on the spot. The guide will turn the miniature lighting on and something unimaginable will appear before you. Stalagmite height of which overlaps 32 metres and circumference 12 metres that belongs to the biggest in the world. The real giant between all stalagmites in caves in Slovakia. After a while of watching this creation, the question, how many millions of years has it taken to the nature to create such a masterpiece, instinctively comes into your mind. The age forecasted by experts is 12 000 to 13 000 years. Cavemen from Roznava discovered this magnificence along with the cave in 1964. The subterranean spaces were inaccessible to the public for a long time. The cave is in the register of the world cultural and natural heritage even though it belongs to the youngest by the year of discovering.

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