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Almost 100 years ago :
"Magnificent,... Wonderful ! A true stony forest" exclaimed Louis Armand in E.A. Hummer the heavy father of the speleology when discovering the huge subterranean room, after a perilous descent of 75 metres in rope ladder.
Nowadays : It is always with the same delight that you will discover this imposing sight.
Through a gallery of 200m long a funicular on tires will lead you 50 metres under the ground.
From a balcony which is so accessible to everybody, even to the physically handicapped people, you will dominate this unique entirety which Hummer had qualified as "Dream of thousand and one nights".
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showing to its advantage with very beautiful lights, more than 400 stalagmites raise their stones which look like laces to several metres high.
Absolutely to see "the great stalagmite" (record- breaking performance in the world)which reaches about 30 m. Accompanied with an experimented tour guide you will, while walking in the middle of "La Forêt Vierge" which means actually Virgin Forest because it looks like it, discover "Le Palmier - palm tree", "Le dindon - turkey", "Le Tigre - the tiger", "Le coin des Méduses - the place with jellyfishes" and you probably get fears of height when you will be over the 90 metres of the "Second Puits - second well".
Around the spot of departure named Spéoléogare, there are areas with games for children, sheltered picnics places, bar where you can buy souvenirs, shaded terraces which will allow you to have a rest in the pleasant and wild spot of the Limestone plateau Mejean.
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