Glacier Cave Scarisoara or Scarisoara houses the largest underground glacier in Romania. From here he comes and Scarisoara Ghetar name comes from Scarisoara village located 16 km below, to which the administrative time it was named. Now owned by the village Garda de Sus, Alba county.
Entry into Glacier Scarisoara is through an impressive venture, whose mouth, with a 60m diameter opens in the forest edge of the plateau. A narrow path carved into the rock and some metal stairs anchored in the walls facilitate the lowering of 48 m depth as measured AVEN. His bottom throughout the year keeps a thick layer of snow. Here you enter the Hall with an impressive depth being 24 m wide portal and 17 m height.
Cave and Glacier Vartop - is declared a natural monument. It is of rare beauty, every inch is covered with incredible and colorful concreti?iuni as in a fairytale world. The large gallery entrance begins. Underground course is approx. 50m, which receives a tributary shortly that can be followed. Gallery leads upward to the Great Hall which is a gallery of 78 m very short. When we return to the stream can continue the way downstream. Īn?li?ime 8m across a waterfall, where the gallery starts to narrow and becomes low, forcing us to a crawling to a whirlpool. This sector is often flooded during rainy periods. Visiting the cave throughout its length requires equipment and a complete speleological speleological ladder.
Caving and cave reserve can be visited only in this guide, which is at the Stone House.
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