JASKINIA RAJ, Chęciny, W. świętokrzyskie, Poland (2015)

JASKINIA RAJ
Chęciny
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Ticket Nº 089627.
02.05.2015.

Jaskinia Raj ('Paradise Cave') is a horizontal karstic limestone cave located inside the Malik hill, at Chęciny, to the south of Kielce. The cave has a length of 240 m (790 ft) and vertical range of 9.5 m (31 ft) however, only a section of 180 m (590 ft) length and two entrances are open to visitors. Its corridors lead through five chambers and caverns, that are ornamented with speleothems, such as stalactites, stalagmites and columns of calcified rock deposited over tens of thousands of years. The cave was discovered in 1963 by Józef Kopeć and Feliks Wawrzeńczak, students of a local technical school. After extensive research and documentation by Tymoteusz Wróblewski and Zbigniew Rubinowski, geologists at the Świętokrzyskie branch of the Polish Geological Institute it was opened to the public in 1972.

Thanks to Kazimierz.