Cango Caves by amirapsp

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jul 28, 2009

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Description

The Cango Caves is one of the worlds great natural wonders, sculptured by nature through the ages - fascinating limestone formations in a wide variety of colours. An underground wonderworld. According to legend the caves were discovered during 1780. Early visitors had to brave the pitch darkness of the vast caverns from the poor light of self made candles. The limestone beds of the Cango Group are, through movement in the Earth's crust, no longer in a horizontal plane. The layers of strata are also displaced laterally, forming dykes. The time in making the many formations, depends on the supply of water and carbon dioxide, and in the case of the Cango Caves, may have started several millions of years ago, whilst many are still in the making. http://www.places.co.za/html/cango.html I made the photo's more bright to view the beauty. And the coloured areas, are lights in the caves, switched on and off. Otherwise it's pitch black. Please view Full size to see the beauty... Enjoy the next visit of photo's. Love this area :-) Hugs

Comments (43)

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Angelsfury2004

10:58AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

wow... wonderful caves

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DarkStormCrow

11:02AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

Excellent captures, well done...

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Fidelity2

11:05AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C! 5+!

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delbeke

11:12AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

spiffy photos! Great caves and captures! I bet it's cold in there

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amirapsp

11:14AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

Not really sweety. Warm indeed. Hugs

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claude19

11:21AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

Very impressive Caves...Fantastic Nature in your continent !!! SUPERB shots !!!

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sylki

11:27AM | Tue, 28 July 2009

I love the Cango Caves, I haven't been there for years though. Did you go up Devil Chimney?(I think that's what it was called)Great shots of this fascinating place. It is very humid in there isn't it!!

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