Niaca Crystal Caves in Mexico - Awesome Pic of the Day

[firebottle]

[vRSG60]

Bloody hell - I'd love to go there.

[gentlemenpreferhats]

Attenborough showed these in the Planet Earth series - worthing watching in HD if you can.

[TheFlyingBanana]

Bloody hell - I'd love to go there.

Sadly you can't. The caves are virtually innaccessible and the atmosphere inside it toxic and corrosive. It is also very hot. Skilled cavers can only stay inside for about 20mins tops.

However, there are more images of it, and it is truly one of natures most incredible wonders...

I think this pic gives a small indication of scale:

[firebottle]

thnks for the additional pic Yoda :)

[EdRonax]

Awsome.

[RossC]

Absolutely incredible :shock:

Looks almost man-made, something out of James Bond, "Die Another Day"...

[phil h]

The documentary (cave of death, or something like that) is well worth watching. Apparently there is loads of it beyond the furthest point reached so far but it is unlikely anyone will be able to explore it.

[El Jack]

Ironic how far we've been off our planet, but how short we've been in our planet.

[jl smout]

Ironic how far we've been off our planet, but how short we've been in our planet.

There's a quote from The Spy Who Loved Me which has more than a note of truth to it:

"Why do we seek to conquer space, when seven tenths of our world remains as yet unexplored"?

[Grandiloquence]

Brilliant pictures. Off to do some watchin' and readin'.....

[fornowagain]

There's an incredible Discovery Channel documentary on the caves.

Well worth a look.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/discove ... naica.html

[ArcofZen]

Absolutely incredible :shock:

Looks almost man-made, something out of James Bond, "Die Another Day"...

Superman surely!!

[phil h]

thnks for the additional pic Yoda :)

You've not got the hang of this yet have you :lol:

[AM94]

You'd swear the first photo was Photoshopped if you didn't know about the caves; certainly a spectacular natural wonder.