Before 200 million years ago because of the upheavals of the earth took the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the place where it now is, the bottom formed.This piece of land is a multimeter layer of fossilized remains of sea creatures.Layering is constantly blurred subsurface water, and after millions of years, formed a huge cave, called Kungurskaya.Only part of the geologists studied is 6 km away.Unexplored passages presumably make up the path twice as long.
Those who have been here will confirm that in her all the "attributes" of this cave.It bats dangling from the ceiling, a wholly-owned humidity, saline springs.Kungurskaya it was named after the area where it is located, in the Perm region, in the town of Kungur.
place is so popular among tourists that in the summer do not find a parking spot.But near the cave it is a large hotel complex called "stalagmite" and hotels "Irene" and "Malachite".
Before entering the cave, at the foot of the Ice Mountain is a building of offices.There are two routes, Small and Big Ring.A stay under the ground can only be accompanied by guides.Despite the scorching heat outside, the cave temperature drops to -5.Therefore it is necessary to take warm clothes.
cave, like all the mysterious places, managed to acquire all sorts of legends and myths.So, they say that in its depths is haunting the White caving, forgotten friends.And still lives here insidious two-faced Mary, missing tourists leave litter in the cave.And the old woman pulls Sinyushka stragglers travelers into a deep lake.There are many legends about which persons with equanimity local guides tell the curious tourists who left their jobs, and maybe head office, in order to make this interesting campaign.
sinking lower into the depths of the cave, there is a rise in temperature.Before the eye appear underground lakes with absolutely clear water.Among the piles of ice blocks and underground rock feel uneasy.That's when the guide turns off the illumination, and all are in the darkness.Special status within seconds fully dezorientirueshsya and begins to panic.
In the center of the largest grotto with a revealing title "Titanic" is a huge lake, the object of research scientists who have left their rooms and office cabinets, to go down to 70 km below the earth and explore this unknown world.It is from this place begins a protected part of the cave, where the tour entry is prohibited.
