snake cave

Serpent Grotto
Crimea, Simferopol
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snake cave

Serpent Grotto
Crimea, Simferopol
The snake cave is known to tourists, if not by personal visits, then by the mean descriptions that are occasionally found in guidebooks. Of the 50 investigated cavities in the foothills, Zmeinaya occupies the first place in terms of length. Its length is 320 m, and the locals claim that it is even longer. The Serpent Cave is located on the southern steep slope of the Inner Crimean Ridge. This is the most significant karst cavity in the Crimean foothills: its length is 320 m, the depth is 12 m, and the volume is only 0.8 thousand m3. The blocky cave is divided into three floors, connected by vertical wells. Bats (large horseshoe bats) live in the cave. Unlike other karst caves of the Main Ridge, Zmeinaya has neither stalactites nor stalagmites. Here you can not hear the sound of falling drops of water. Only in one of the halls of the lower of the three floors of the cave, calcite crystals were preserved on the walls, which shimmer in all the colors of the rainbow in the rays of lanterns. On the Inner Ridge, he, perhaps, has no equal in beauty. The snake cave is an archaeological monument of the Kizilkoba culture (cave sanctuary). Monument of nature since 1969. In the vicinity of the cave, one can observe numerous forms and figures of limestone weathering that make up the cuesta. From the top of the ridge, distances open - a panorama of the southern longitudinal (inter-ridge) depression, and further - the Main Crimean ridge (in the south).

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