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Fifteen minutes' drive north of the Francia plantation,
Harrison's Cave (40min tours daily 9am-4pm; B$25) is an enormous
subterranean labyrinth, where underground streams and dripping water
have carved huge limestone caverns with stalactites hanging like
teeth from the ceilings and weirdly shaped stalagmites pushing up
from the cave floor.
The existence of caves here has been known for over two hundred
years, though it was only by accident that the caves you'll see on
your tour were discovered in 1970, and subsequently opened up to the
public.
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No
serious potholing is expected of you - you're taken
underground and around the various chambers on an electric
tram, which, with the guide's mechanized voice-over, rather
spoils the eerie, otherwise soundless atmosphere of the
place. However, it can't completely detract from the beauty
- you'll be hard put to find more spectacular cave scenery
anywhere in the world
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