We'd come to Brno
really to see the Macocha Abyss after reading pretty rave reviews about it
on Trip Advisor. At 138 m deep it’s the deepest gorge in Central Europe . Got there after taking an early train
and bus not knowing if we could get tickets to the caves and underground boat
ride once we arrived but Lady Luck was on our side again, phew. Then hiked
pretty well straight up a 3 km long trail to the summit for the wonderful
views, then hiked down for our one hour cave and boat tour which left at 11 am.
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| Waiting in Blankso for the bus to Macocha. Got a sense of how chilly it was AND supposed to be IN the cave? |
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| View of the abyss after hiking up to the viewing platform. |
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| One layer of clothing off! |
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| i.e. the Punkva Caves that we had come to see. |
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| Waiting for the cave tour; cold enough to weat gloves! |
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| The Front Dome reached by discoverers in 1909. |
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| Mirror Lake: Notice the castle on the mountain below; we also saw a stone umbrella, weeping willow and owls. |
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| The Angel above and The Curtain below or is it the other way around?! |
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| From the summit, we had seen people way, way down below; now we were those people. |
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| On the boat now; sorry the pictures are blurry, The guide's commentary was all in Czech as we seemed to be the only non Czechs; they laughed a lot during the boat ride. Wonder what we missed! |
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| Light at the end of the tunnel or, should I say, cave. The tour would not be the place to go if you're at all claustrophobic as the boat often came very close to touching the sides; we had to duck our heads even as short as we are. Adam and Cheryl, you'd have had a tough time, I kept thinking. |
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| Nice walk back to catch our bus to Blankso and then train to Brno. |
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| How far we'd walked and hiked. |
Probably but would have been worth it from the look of your fantastic pictures. Continued safe travels!!
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