In a Disney-esque manner, we were given lift jackets and entered an eight-person boat, and were guided through underground caves of stalagmites and stalagtites. The water was maybe 2-3' deep, but had a mirror finish most of the time which reflected the rather ominous structures from the ceiling, and initially felt scary, like when you look into the water around an iceberg and realize that it has a height of 10', but 90% is below water and you can't see past the first 5'...
Here's the route the gondolier took. As it was near closing, he went at a brisk pace.
In the dark (and at high speed) it was a little hard to take pictures, but here are some of the highlights.
Randall commented that the gondolier probably knew how to say "don't move" in 16 different languages. I would imagine they all conveyed the same tone as the employees of the Haunted Mansion who say "walk this way".
Note: There were no archaeological ruins here. Not everything on our trip is about Ancient Greece.
Scary indeed! It looks very Disney-esque and creepy. Sometimes it's hard to imagine that it's actually "real" and not created. Were you the only ones in the Gondola?
ReplyDeleteNo, there were two other couples. A youngish (read: millennials) couple from Manhattan who squirmed like rabid squirrels the entire time taking selfies, and a pair of staid ladies who I think were German.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!! Too bad W wasn't there to translate the staid ladies. And the millenials with their selfies made me LOL! Enough with the damn selfies!!
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