Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Mammoth Caves National Monument, Kentucky

Tues 2nd Nov.

These caves are huge caverns, some with stalactite and stalagmites. We did a couple of tours the first of which was very poor value for money and was disappointing. The second tour deep into the cavernous 'room's was actually quite good.  The caves are massive, with tons of off tunnels off the main ones.  At one point you have to snake your way through, then climb a huge tower of stairs to get out.  Pretty impressive, but I guess it is the largest network in the world - that they know of!!

The plains of Missouri were pretty flat as expected, but there were still items of interest: many roadside farm buildings, and like the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan, occasionally dotted with slow-pumping mini oil rigs.

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