Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Liyobaa Cave

A mystery that until now have not ad one can unravel the mystery cave Liyoba After the conquest of South America by the Spanish Conquistadores, the Catholic priests who were attempting to convert the heathen Indians discovered a cave entrance to what they called "Hell." This entrance has since been sealed off with tons of rubble, dirt and huge stones and boulders. The village of Liyobaa (or to translate it, The Cavern of Death 
was located in the province of Zapoteca, somewhere near the ancient village of Mictlan, or the Village of the Underworld. The Cavern of Death was actually located in the last chamber of an eight-chamber building or temple. This temple had four rooms above the ground and four more important chambers built below the surface. The high priests of the then-prevailing Indian religion conducted the ordinary ceremonies for the common man of Theozapotlan in the upper rooms. It was when they descended into the subsurface chambers that the
secret and, to them, holy ceremonies, were conducted. The first underground room was the one which was reserved for any human sacrifice. Its walls were lined with the images of the representations of their various "Gods." A blood-stained stone altar in the center of the chamber served for the sacrifice of any human victim, whose still-beating heart would be

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ajanta Cave

Maharashtra, one of the many ancient relics that exist in India. The amazing thing in this cave paintings are too many Buddha statues of high artistic value. It is estimated, the monuments that exist in this cave started to work on in the 2nd century BC. But the caves at Ajanta are then 
abandoned. During the 1300 years of this abandoned cave, on theoutside, shrub growing in height, eventually becoming a forest automatically hide the existence of this cave. No one ever knew that there saved 'world heritage' incredible. Until finally in the spring of 1819 a British officer, accidentally entered the steep canyonThe deeper he went in there, and he was outstanding because he was surprised to find a door hidden in one cave. This is the first visit after thousands of years humans. When found the cave was home and bat birds and other animals. Captain Smith then make the first exploration to know the content of the mysterious cave. Captain Smith's name is unknown, because the corresponding write his name on the cave wall and coming year. He wrote, Captain Smith, April 1819. And now the Ajanta caves is the most beautiful cave in India, is an asset and pride of India's largest cave

Hang Son Doong Caves

For decades, some geologists know that Vietnam is one of the houses of the caves are spectacular, and most of them not yet explored. Now, discovered a cave in the world, Hang Son Doong. Reported by National Geographic, the cave was enough to accommodate a single block consisting of 40 skyscrapers in New York, United States (U.S.). The cave is located in the Annamite Mountains which are also contained in it rivers and forests even thin clouds and there has not yet dieskplorasi. This is part of a network that connects the 150 caves in Vietnam, which borders Laos. Howard and Deb Limbert of British entry into the Hang Son Doong in 2009 but they
 were forced to stop because of the high walls of calcite. The team then come back and climb that wall and into figuring out the tip of the cave. The cave is 6.5 miles in length at this time but the end of the sockets are still continuing with calcite wall sockets as high as 45 meters to 150 meters wide and 200 meters high. that stop us, “said Adam Spillane, one member of the British expedition team searching for the cave.
The cave is named Hang Son Doong or mean mountain river caves were first discovered by a ranger named Ho Khanh in 1991. But no one has ever explored because of the large and high wind pressure because of the underground river is very large. A total of 13 people combined explorers from the University of Science Vietnam by British explorer finally held Caving Expedition 2009 went into the cave. They spent five days in mid-April to survey the cave path.With a laser-based measuring instrument LaserAce 300, the team can measure the height and width of the ceiling cavity along the journey with the hope to make maps. Currently the data is analyze However, the results of the initial report showed a large main cavity nearly doubled the current record for the largest cave. So, Hang Son Doong probably the biggest cave in the world today.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Akbar Cave

Akbar Cave one tourist destination in the town of Tuban, East Java (about 100 km from Surabaya) deep mystery. Deep cave in length ranging from 1.2 km below New Market Boom Tuban get to the beach in the Java Sea. In this cave flows clear water, a river in the belly of the earth, which is annually visited by at least 250,000 tourists from home and abroad. With stalagmite and stalactite cave is indeed full of wonderful 
surprises surprises. In the cave is noted as a place to hide Brandal Lokajaya which eventually became a powerful Sunan Kalijaga it. Sunan Bonang pupil who is also the son of the Duke of Tuban Wilwatikta Raden Sahid epithet is to popularize the cave which was originally named Luweng Ombo (cave width) with the name of Akbar Cave. The name is so popular when Sunan Bonang are amazed with the huge cave and a long and beautiful with a call Alllahu Akbar Allahu Akbar (God is great). Whatever happened to name the cave is located in the village Ngabar Semanding district or village Abar, a cave in history ever to train Ranggalawe physical forces (one of the duke of Tuban). And I have a collection with original ornaments formed by the artificial nature. There Andong Tumpak Sunan Bonang hermitage as a place with stone hanging. Others Spring Tirta Merta Spring pond water of life and the see-through tunnel Hawan Ocean to the north shore, about 1 km in length. Here too there is room Songgo Sky, which is the room where we could see the sky from inside the cave. On the other hand there are historic relics Supa master fireplace to make weapons.Inside the cave can also be seen Hurdles Marabaya. A 20-meter long hallway that when we enter into it could be seen inside the well is approximately 14 meters. (Currently protected by a security fence). In the recorded history of this hallway to Sunan Bonang hiding when soldiers chased chase Sam Poo Kong (Chinese army) who are not happy, he spread Islam here.In the middle of this cave there is a wide hall once used a meeting place of saints. And the last before the 'finish' (the exit cave) there pasujudan Baitul Akbar former Sunan Bonang and Sunan prayer-Sunan other, now a mosque in the basement