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Plan on about two hours for the tour, which includes a boat ride through the lower galleries,
the visit to the upper galleries on foot and a film presentation.
In summer you can visit both the upper and lower galleries while enjoying the refreshingly
cool temperature inside the caves. The lower section is sometimes closed in winter when the
water level is high, but the extensive upper galleries are open all year.
The Lower Galleries
This part of the cavern takes you to a beautiful underworld millions of years in the
making. Both the 600 metre boat trip on a subterranean lake is only a sampling of the system
that has been explored for almost 6,910 metres.
The first impression is the sound of rushing water and a sensation of clean cold. But the roar
of the waterfall at the entrance gives way to profound silence as you glide deeper into the
cave. An effective new lighting system illuminates expert rock climbers-and marvel at the
columns and sculptures fashioned by those great architects-water and time.
The Upper Galleries
The approach to these dry galleries through a 120 metre long concrete tunnel does little
to prepare you for the surprising world beyond. Formed several million years before the lower
caverns, this section shows what the entire cave system was like before geological conditions
displaced the subterranean river to its present level.
For 650 metres you wind your way through different levels of the caverns, contemplating the
flowing stone draperies and other formations. Perhaps the most dramatic sight is the yawning
canyons and sink holes, some seen at a drop of over a hundred metres.
Near the entrance to the upper galleries is an air conditioned theater which has scheduled
showings of a film about Jeita in several languages. Check which time the language you want is
shown so you can coordinate the film with your visit to the cave.
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