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The cave in Novy Afon, Abkhasia, is a place that is always visited by crowds of tourists. The place fascinates with glimmering luster of stalagmites and stalactites, and deep crystal lakes. Every tourist tries to see the wonder of nature and is very impressed after that.

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The church is a more ancient construction than the monastery and is under restoration now.


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Now it is time to go to the cave. Don’t forget to take warm clothes as it is very cold inside.


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The cave has 11 halls but only some of them are opened for tourists.


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One hall named Moscow has wonderful acoustic properties and often holds concerts. The natural formation is called a human scull.


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The road leads to the largest hall which is 260 m long.

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The place used to be occupied by an ancient river.


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The stone waterfall is 20 meters high.

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Now it is time to back.

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Tourists buy minerals here.

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One of tunnels in the cave leads to the subway.

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An excursion lasts 1,5 hours. People say that photos fail to impart the beauty of the place to the right extent and to evaluate the beauty of natural mineral compositions one needs to visit the cave in person.