The Caves Open Their Secrets To The Curious
I've always loved to go cave-crawling. It's interesting in its own way. But this time I was with real speleologists!
In the Caucasus (and maybe in other places in Russia) there are many caves, even of incredible sizes, used for different purposes. Many caves are made to take tourists there. There are trains and multicolored lights that illuminate stalagmites and stalactites of all shapes and sizes.
There are paths, so tourists can walk comfortably without getting dirty feet and shoes from various couturiers. Crowds of guides and attendants watch out for any mishaps that may happen.
But since the inner parts of the earth are definitely not created for those who “have already been everywhere and seen everything, try to surprise me with something in this backwater of yours”, you can find many useful things there. For example, especially clean and healthy air.
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That is why there are caves specially equipped to treat people, for example, with severe asthma. There are beds in these caves. The sick are wrapped in blankets so that they don't freeze, because the temperature there is quite cool and constant, and they sit or lie there for some time breathing the air that is good for them. I've been told it helps.
I have been to several caves in southern Italy. They were organized walks for tourists. But I always wanted a real adventure in a real cave of speleologists. And finally, my dream came true.
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By mistake, most likely, I was sent an invitation to a conference about the geological features of the area where I live (and this, you know, is the very place where the prehistoric continents, Africa and Europe, collided).
The next day there was an excursion to various interesting places from a geological point of view — I could not help but attend, although, to tell the truth, I have no connection with this organization.
But they accepted me and treated me as if they had known me for 100 years. They even gave me a special helmet (for tourists, though not a real one, because according to the law, tourists, and their heads must be taken care of).
I must admit that with my eyesight I managed not to notice about ten different stones, and without a helmet, by the end, my head would have been nothing but a bruise.
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After lunch, we spent a long time climbing around various rock crevices. I don't remember anything about any calcites, syenites, and other things, even worse than that.
All my clothes were covered in clay from the cave, and what my all-terrain trekking boots looked like I just have no words to describe to you. They knew where they were going and brought clothes and shoes with them to change into after the cave…
Every muscle in my body still aches, but I am so glad I was allowed to be part of this holy event!
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