Our second full day tour saw us explore a cave within the depths of a lava field.
The laws of Volcanoes state; whenever a lava field forms there is always a lava cave formed within it.
Another law states; 1100 years after the lava cave has formed, a bunch of tourists must explore it.
Before we arrived at the lava cave we visited a geothermal water pumping station that supplied naturally heated water to two local towns. We then visited Barnafoss where a lava field has water pouring out the sides of it as it is covering an ancient river. This place is honestly amazing and I cant believe I hadn’t heard of it before our trip.
After Barnafoss we headed to the Lava Cave.
The lava cave has many surprising features; Icicles, chocolate looking walls, ceiling collapses, and past human habitation. As we reached our furthest point in the cave our guide told us to sit in a group and turn all our lights off. Here’s a pic of what we saw…
As Connor said in the video, it was darker than closing your eyes.
Hope you enjoy the video you gremlins.
Michael x
Love the pictures! And now I have another destination to add to my “Must Visit List”.
Glad you liked it 🙂 Go visit Greenwich!
I want to leave a comment but I’m pretty much speechless trying to absorb this post. That place looks amazing!!!
Haha thanks, glad you still managed to leave the comment! Happy Blogging!
I love caves buddy have you been to Laos yet?
So do I! Yes I’ve been to Laos, are there good caves there? I went to the 3rd largest cave in the world in Vietnam – Hang En, heard of it?
Nice I did but did not go i think. I have been to many caves in the world. Was that one in halong bay?
It’s pretty much in the middle of the country in Phong Nha National Park. What’s your top cave to recommend?
Ok, I have not been there. I need to go through my pics again. My favourite was in Laos for sure. Need to check the name again.then I let you know. Where are you going next?
Yes please let me know the name! I’m off to America in 3 weeks and we’re heading to Sedona!
That sounds great! You will have a blast.
Is it dangerous?
No I guess not! I mean, there are small collapses sometimes but i think the chances are pretty remote, I don’t think anyone’s been hurt lol
Good to go then… lol, anyway I’m Max, nice to meet you…
http://www.poshpackerteam.wordpress.com
Thanks Max, i’ll check out your blog!
Thank you
Great post! I went in May and the lava caves were so surreal.
Yes they were! Did they have Icicles in May?
wp failing again argh. changed spelling, it popped up with something not so close. you get my drift though haha
I got it 😉
went caving once (found out the hard way I am clostrophobic) haha
Oh no, did you finish the tour? I actually am slightly claustrophobic to, felt uncomfortable in the dark!
I wrote an article about it, I’ll find it and send it to you.https://wordpress.com/post/covertnovelist.wordpress.com/6577
Looks like an awesome excursion! Thanks!
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:47 AM, The Wandering Broski wrote:
> thewanderingbroski posted: “Our second full day tour saw us explore a cave > within the depths of a lava field. https://www.youtube.com/watch? > v=lVRRNRbKywc The laws of Volcanoes state; whenever a lava field forms > there is always a lava cave formed within it. Another law states; 110″ >
Thankyou for watching it 🙂
Hey you two gremlins, fantastic video. ?
Thanks you gremlin 🙂 Hope you enjoyed it!