Last weekend, Erin and I (Robin) explored caves near where we live. The caves are called Tropfstein Höhle (or drop stone cave) . People around here really love and protect it. The cave was discovered in 1971 and has since become a UNESCO Geopark site. The stone formations in the cave are formed by water drops over hundreds of years (stalactite formations). In the pictures below, it looks like ice, but it is really stalactite (hard and smooth like rock... not that we touched it - that is against the rules :) ). (Oh! Taking pictures was also against the rules, but we asked after our tour and the tour guide said we could)
This form is called Wedding Cake because it looks a bit like a wedding cake. In real life, if you use your imagination, it even looks like there is a bride and groom on the top.
Proof that we really were there, not that we just stole these photos off the internet.
Check out the barbed-wire fence! This was serious barbed wire. You can only get into this cave with a guide, but some how there were people who broke off pieces of the stones and stole them! To solve the problem, the city put up barbed wire... since then there have been no pieces stolen.
I (Robin) was there too :)~ Written by Robin (Erin helped)
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