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Status: Available
Hidden on: 14. May 2009
Listed since: 07. August 2009
Last update: 24. August 2009
Waypoint: OC8C5A
Also listed at:
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Description
The Insuyu cave is a natural cavern formed by the dissolving of
limestone rock by the seepage of rainwater through natural cracks
from the surface. Rainwater takes carbondixide from the air and
forms carbonic acid. This acidic rain water seeps into the caverns,
dissolving the limestone and thus enlarging the cavern.
The age of the caverns are not precisely determined, although it is
assumed to be between 500.000 and 1.000.000 years, as most of the
other carstic cave systems in Turkey are.
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- Explain how the columns inside the cavern are formed
- What is the approximate height above sea level
- How many distinct lakes are in the caves?
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06. November 2009
barmbek
found the geocache
We wanted to visit
this cave, because the listing of this Earth cache sounded interesting
to us. And due to its remote location we hoped to see a cave, that is
not so much visited by tourists as the ones, which are near the coast,
for example near Alanya. So we drove about 150 km from Belek to the
cave. When we arrived, the man at the counter was a bit confused,
because we unfortunately had no turkish money with us. But in the end
we could pay the entrance fee in EURO. There
were only 4 other people visiting the cave, so we could have a look at
all details very smoothly. It was very impressive to see the size and
magnitude of the whole cave-system. We took a lot of pictures, but they
can not really tell, how enormous the dimensions were. Inside the cave,
there are of course many spotlights, to show the beauty of it. But
there are also english and turkish spoken announcements from tape with
guitar-music in the background. Unfortunately some idiots have
scratched words and names in some parts of the rocks, but luckily these
scratchings are not everywhere. After
about 50 minutes we left the cave to see the daylight again. The nearby
kiosk was closed, so we could not have a cay or a coffee, so we made
short break in our car drinking our own beverages. We
enjoyed this trip very much and we want to say thank you very much to
the owner for establishing an Earth cache at this interesting location.
And we also say thank you for the very quick log-permission. We can recommend to do this Earth-Cache! Greetings from Hamburg / Germany, P.S.: We got the
barmbek (Andrea + Roland).
FTF !!!
Roland in front of the cave with GPSr
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