subterranean travel and places,henan province,china

The Longmen caves has over 2,300 caves,100,000 buddhist images and almost 3,000 inscriptions as well as over 40 pagodas.


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subterranean travel and places,maharashtra state,india

Ajanta caves(consistes of about 30 caves) west of mumbai(formerly bombay) were used between 200 BC and 600AD by followers of the buddha who must have created the paintings of the life of the buddha.
there were also prayer halls as well as accommodation areas.
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Ellora caves is a  buddhist cave temple and has carvings of the buddha
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Kanheri caves cut out of basaltic rock dating from the  1st century BC and consist of 109 caves.
It also has several waterfalls as well.
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lenyadri

Pandavleni caves are 1,200 years old
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subterranean ravel and places,dhawalagiri zone,nepal

The former kingdom of mustang has some buddhist cave monasteries.
In 2007,55 cave paintings were discovered of the life of the buddha.
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subterranean travel and places,samtskhe-javakheti region,georgia

In this region is vanis  kvabebi cave monastery which comprises 6,000 apartments.
Vanis kvabebi was built as  a hiding place  from the monguls.

The new athos cave has gypsum crystals and large chambers.
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subterranean travel and places,abkhazia

The krubera cave(discovered in 1860)(also known as the voronja cave),the deepest cave on Earth at almost 7,200 feet is located in the  gagrinsky range, gagra district near the western border.

The gagrinsky range and nearby areas have a lot of caves deeper than 1,000 feet.
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subterranean travel and places,northern cape province,south africa

Equus cave
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Wonderwerk cave is situated in dolomite rock and has 8,000 year old rock paintings.
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subterranean travel and places,loiza municipality,puerto rico

Search Amazon.com for meso-indian Maria de la cruz cave is where archaic/meso-indian remains were found in 1948
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subterranean travel and places,zhejiang province,china

Zhijin cave has the world's longest stalagmites at 70metres long.
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subterranean travel and places,matanzas province,cuba

Bellamar caves were discovered in 1861,are 2 km,has at least one mural painting as well as fossils.
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subterranean travel and places,cienfuegos province,cuba

The cueva san martin infierno has a 67 metre stalagmite,which used to be the world's longest.
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subterranean travel and places,sabah,malaysia

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Its fauna includes white-nest cave swiftlets.
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