do /trv/ like traveling inside earth?

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This cave is Coventosa in Cantabria, Spain.

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We were in the cave for 10 hours.

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The place was amazing and we only made the 5% of the explored cave.

>fucking love caves
>grew up in area with zero caves
>haven't traveled to any real ones yet
>only been to tiny ones or ones that were guarded and required guided tour

I hate you and I love you OP. Details and stories fgt

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>>1138534
This is the place where we were. There are a lot of caves in this valley, one of them has one of the biggest pit in Spain, 600 m

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>>1138534
This chamber is called the ghosts chamber for obvious reasons. Was really amazing but I love more the fact that it was a fucking canon inside the cave like in the first photo, it was massive.

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>>1138536

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>>1138534
This is another near cave. The entrance was so beautiful

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>>1138541

>>1138542
>all the pics

Nice m8. I didn't realize spain had caves like that. When I eventually get over there I'll give them a go. I love /out/trv/

How were they, cool breeze, hard climb or tourist friendly platforms and shit? Busy? Paid?

>>1138520
Nice OP
I've only been in caves in the Midwest, thinking to go to Philippines one day on a caving centered trip as I heard they have a lot there

this is the post where i remind you about the nutty putty cave incident

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>>1140104
>this is the post where i remind you about the nutty putty cave incident
Creepy. I just looked it up...hadn't heard about that one.

I have a friend who does cave diving in Florida, for collecting extinct perfectly preserved woods for workworking business. It's crazy dangerous with strings to find the pathway out again. Beautiful things found, though. I more explore cracks in the earth, quick look inside and then back the heck out of entrance, nothing that requires technical gear, places you can actually stand up throughout. I'm far too aware of miners trapped and how there really to this day and age isn't anything you can do to rescue people *shudder*. I also don't like risks associated with bats, breathing bat or insect fecal matter, or needing rabies vaccinations (who gets that who doesn't work at a zoo?).

I am wracking my brain, but I think that I have in fact done a lot of "tourist" safe caves:
Most recently I did an Iceland trip where I did the crack kind of cave, and a lava tube both on Snaefellsnes peninsula.
Rauðfeldsgjá Gorge is the crack!
http://www.iheartreykjavik.net/2013/10/vatnshellir-cave-snaefellsnes/
I did Alaska's Matanuska Glacier entire experience, from rafting the icy river to glacier walking and a glacier cave with a mini-climb inside. My guides had gear and provided the nifty grippy metal for the underside of my boots. It was beautiful. Gotta go fast! It's a receding glacier, same as Snaefellsnes shrinking a few hundred yards every month in summer.
Fairy Holes in Cape Breton, NS
Carlsbad Caverns (ugh bats)
Luray Caverns
Bat Cave, Nassau
Did the Polar Caves (LMAO) quaint roadside tourist attraction as a child in NH.