From Tomar, we visited the Grutas de Mira de Aire, a beautiful series of caverns with an elevator to bring us back up -- very important as we get older!
1 The lighting in the cave is generally very nicely done.
2 Looking down into the first large cavern, with the staircase visible in bottom and lower left
3 Stalactites on the walls
4 A new stalagmite being formed
5 I suppose these are compared to organ pipes.
6 Looking back up at the descending staircase which has apparently been constructed in the middle of the cavern.
7 Oohing and aweing
8 A leveler spot
9 The barriers on the edges of the path are not very high...
10 Stalactites and pools
11 Thin, spiny stalactites
12 Hokey lighting at the end of the walk
13 A nice trilobite (about 25cm long) in the museum
14 The weather towards the end of our trip turned cloudy and often rainy, as show by these clouds.
