Gouffre de Padirac is also known as caves Padirac ( or chasm Padirac ), and it is located in the region of Midi-Pyrénées , in the south-west of France, in the vicinity of the pilgrimage center of Rocamadour. This is the most spectacular cave in France! Padirac Cave is a huge crater with a diameter of 35 m and a depth of 99 m, which was formed in the collapse of the cave. It was discovered in the late 19th century, although it is known that the cave had already existed in the 3rd century, and in the 15th and 16th centuries there were people here when mined potassium nitrate. This cave system considered one of the most remarkable phenomena in pirodnyh Massif Central. The length of the cave is more than 40 km, although only 2 km of galleries open to the public.
The tour includes a descent on the elevator or stairs to the underground caves. There you will be put in the boat and on the impressive beauty provezut tunnels. Then you look Grande Pendeloque, a giant stalactite of 60 meters in height, which hangs in the air as if enjoying a private ortrazheniem in the Lac de la Pluie. flickr/Dominique Abautret
Next you prishvartuetes and tour prodolzhits walk to the lake Lac des Gours and Grand Dome hall with a ceiling height of 94 meters! It is here that you will feel the true splendor of the Gouffre de Padirac! The tour takes about 1.5 hours from the reception. The route is about 2 km long, including 500 m on a boat.
At present, it has not been explored in its entirety. A place that intrigues the tourists who come in numbers every year, with more than 400 000 visits.
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Source – en.wikipedia.org, tripadvisor.in
Wow, that is a very interesting place for sure! I went to the Chauvet area in 2010 and really enjoyed it. It was long and narrow and not as open as this. (Well the replica tour anyway.)
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Lovely!
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Hi. Thanks for your very kind follow. I am now doing the same. So glad to meet you. Those caves are spectacular. All the best. Kris.
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That’s so incredible!
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thanks Josh
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Thank you for sharing. That would have been something spectacular to see.
Leslie
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Magnificent!
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Thanks
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Okay it made the list of places I must go see. Thank you.
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Spectacular. Hidden beauty
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They are magnificent caves, ChinGum. I have been to some interesting caves in the UK, but they are not as spectacular as those in this area. You can look them up, Cheddar Gorge ,Wookey Hole Caves, and Mother Shipton’s Cave.
Regards, Pete.
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Amazing and great photos. It stirs the imagination!
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Incredible beauty.
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Holy cow! That’s a long way down there! I seriously doubt I could get back up. But it’s certainly beautiful.
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Wow those photos are amazing, incredible, fascinating and intriguing. What a wonderful tour to go on..Mother Nature does it again! 🙂
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Amazing and gorgeous cave! I loved the pictures, it made me want to go…
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Hi there. Thank you for visiting and following HoB. Much appreciated!
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Just beautiful
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Absolutely beautiful.
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Absolutely beautiful.
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Very beautiful. It is a majestic place. Thank you for sharing one of Mother Nature’s incredible beauties 🙂
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Amazing! A year back we happened to go to an “ice cave” somewhere between Vienna and Salzburg which was an amazing formation of droplets of water freezing inside a cave and forming a massive structure. Amazing nature!
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It looks beautiful. I’m not keen on being underground so I’ll just admire from afar. 🙂
Thanks for the follow, by the way, and sorry it took me so long to get here. You caught me at a busy time.
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