One of the most vivid impressions of visiting Georgia. It's the most beautiful cave I've ever seen! It's impossible to describe it even in words - you have to see this kingdom of stalactites and stalagmites, feel and touch the damp cave air, and hear the soft patter of water droplets. We spent almost an hour in this enchanted dungeon. Everything is organized very conveniently: stairs, railings, lighting. A walk along the underground river adds to the experience (to be paid separately), they bring it to the wine museum, and everyone can take a bus for free to the entrance to the cave. You can also just walk out. The streams of people do not intersect. Entrance is strictly based on the time indicated on the ticket. We waited for 40 minutes. They say you can buy a ticket in advance through the website, arrive on time and do not wait (I did not check). Definitely something to see, it's amazing!

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Вячеслав бонд

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Prometheus Cave (also known as Kumistavi Cave, Tskaltuba cave) is a karst cave in western Georgia, in the vicinity of the city of Tskaltubo. A natural monument (category III according to the classification of the International Union for Conservation of Nature). The cave was discovered on July 15, 1983 by an expedition from the Institute of Geography. Vakhushti Bagrationi. Since 1985, the cave has been converted into an excursion facility. On May 26, 2011, the cave was opened to visitors. The cave is about 11 km long, and visitors can take a 1420m and 380m boat ride out of the cave along the underground course of the Kumi River. The number of steps on the route is 880. The temperature in the cave is 15 degrees. Humidity is under one hundred percent:) the oxygen content is 20.9 percent (as is the norm in the city). Carbon dioxide content 0.06 percent Be careful, the ground is wet and covered with clay in many places, but you are still in a cave :) It is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the summer months. The cost is 25 lari for non-residents and 20 lari to leave the cave by boat. As for the tour itself, unfortunately, due to the large volume of tourists, the groups are gaining common ones, that is, in all languages at once - Russian, English, Georgian. It's very difficult to be a guide, since it's difficult to assemble large groups and focus on a story, and the result is just dry mumbling, telling a story for the sake of telling it, and moving on as quickly as possible. To hear something and have time to understand, you need to be right next to the guide, otherwise the tour will turn into just a traffic jam and walking at a penguin pace, like on the subway in prime time. But if no one interferes, the atmosphere will be magical - in each hall there are metal boxes with blue-illuminated buttons that are responsible for turning on/off the backlight and turning on/ off the music - the music in all halls is the same, but fabulous, suitable for the atmosphere. In each hall there are signs with a description of what to look for and a story about why the hall was named that way. The cost of the tour for non-residents is GEL 25 per cave, and 20 for a boat tour leading deeper into the cave. Bottom line: a cave of incredible beauty, my recommendations for visiting. Recommendations and remarks: it is necessary to introduce a limit on the number of visitors per session, no more than 10-20 people, and even with such a large number of people, it will be extremely difficult for the guide. The cave creates a chamber environment, allowing a huge number of people into one session, deprives the motivation of the guide and makes it impossible for visitors to feel this chamber environment of peace. And we need to break down the tours by language, so that the guide in one session talks exclusively in one language - so the tours will be more complete and interesting.

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Utkelova Marina

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If Vardzia is a story carved in stone by man, then Prometheus Cave is a poem written by nature itself. Forget about cramped mazes. It is a realm of scale, silence and subterranean grandeur. You cross the threshold and you enter another world. The air is thick, cool and humid. The first thing that strikes is the vastness. The halls are so huge that they seem like they could fit a cathedral, and the vaults are lost in the dark, creating their own sky. And so the magic begins. The light turns on. And the stone chaos turns into a phantasmagoria of forms. Stalactites and stalagmites, meeting, give rise to phantastic visions. There is a Cyclops, a fairy, a frozen waterfall, and halls resembling the chambers of an underground king.... Flashes of illumination paint the cave in bright colors, soft classical music is barely audible. Against its background, you can only hear the measured drop of drops counting down the seconds of geological time. Every drop is a builder who has been creating this beauty for thousands of years. The highlight is a boat trip along an underground river. You are floating in complete silence on water as black as night, and stone lace hovers over you, illuminated by a ghostly light. This is a moment of total immersion in the myth. The legend of Prometheus, chained to the Caucasian rocks, seems surprisingly plausible here — such a place is worthy of being a backdrop for a titan. You leave with the feeling that you have been inside the Earth, in its most intimate and beautiful sanctuary. This is not an excursion, but a real journey to the center of your own imagination.

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