Thursday, March 3, 2011

Gyokusendo Cave the most spectacular scenery in Japan


Only 10 km from south of Naha Airport, this cave can be reached by bus or car in less than an hour. Gyokusendo Cave is the second largest cave system found in Japan and has a 800 meter long path that can be passed visitors.

This cave has a small rivers, waterfalls, stalactites and stalagmites that have formed since 300 thousand years ago. This cave has good lighting and very concerned about the safety of the visitors.

Metal handrails and walkways make walking along the 800 meters in the cave is fun. But you still must be vigilant. There is a slippery spots, where moisture accumulates on the tight-rope.

Motion detector will turn on the lights, the cave was alive with psychedelic colors that shine on the ice stalactites overhead. Rush of water from small rivers and waterfalls can be heard throughout the cave and, in some places, pools of water that emits blue light from lamps strategically placed below the water surface.

Although the atmosphere is peaceful, calm, and quiet, does not take much imagination to imagine the sudden appearance of a monster of unusual shapes and shadows of the rocks in this cave. The filmmaker has ever made this cave as a shooting location Godzilla movie in 1974.

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