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9 Famous Limestone Caves With Pictures

Jenolan Caves:

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The world’s oldest and most breathtaking cave is the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia. It is the most treasured cave of Australia with its spectacular formations and pure underground rivers making it also the most frequented cave in Australia.

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Limestone Cave and Waterfall:

A Limestone Cave in Catalonia Spain that is bound to rivet anyone’s attention with its pristine waterfall plunging down below. A crevasse in the cave wall allows the rays of the sunlight to filter in making the water sparkle with a golden hue.

Carlsbad Caverns:

The Carlsbad Caverns near Carlsbad in New Mexico houses the world’s seventh largest natural limestone cave chamber popularly known as the Big Room. Measuring 4,000 by 625 feet and 350 feet in height, the caverns are adorned with stalactites, stalagmites and other formations of an astounding variety and can be traversed by ease of access.

Cave Pool:

The Limestone Cave near Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico boasts of a natural swimming pool. The lighting inside the cave together with the sunlight seeping in through an overhead crevasse reflects a myriad of colours making this cave an absolute delight to revel in.

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Marble Cave:

Marble cave in the municipality of Lipljan in Kosovo is a karts limestone cave that is believed to have been formed some 80 million years ago. The crowning glory of this cave is that it is made up of marble peaks formed by a rare phenomenon which is the metamorphosis of limestone. Although opened to tourists, much of the cave remains unexplored.

Gouffre Berger Limestone Cave:

The Gouffre Berger Limestone Cave in France, once considered the world’s deepest cave at 3,681 ft is now the 28th deepest cave in the world and the 4th in France. Not to be fooled by its deathly calm, this cave has claimed a number of lives during heavy rain and stormy weather where the water levels rise rapidly.

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