Fun Fun Cave
Dominican Republic, El Valle

The Fun-Fun Cave is one of the largest stalactite caves in the world, located in the Los Haitises National Park of the Dominican Republic. This amazing place makes it possible to feel like a man of prehistoric times: the cave is 25-30 million years old. This place is unusual already because there are no signs of civilization in it: in the cave there is no artificial lighting and specially laid footpaths. Among locals, it is known as the "Devil's Cave." The cave is gigantic in size. Its corridors are so long that today only 8 km of their total length remain investigated. The cave has an unusual microclimate and relief, and numerous grottoes, tunnels, drawings of natural origin, mysterious sounds of underground waters and bizarre stalactites and stalagmites evoke imagination. These mineral compounds, growing from top to bottom, increase by only 1 cm every century. Fun Fun is not just a cave with many corridors, it also has its own life, its own microcosm, which a person is unlikely to ever be able to comprehend. : perhaps just touch the great mystery of nature. Fun-fun cave is alive. It has its inhabitants - exotic animals that spend their whole lives in the dark: spiders, crabs and prawns of huge sizes. But the owners of the cave are bats. The cave got its name from the sound that their wings emit during flight - “fun-fun”. An excursion to the Fun Fun Cave is one of the most fascinating and memorable tourist attractions in the Dominican Republic. A journey to the beauty of the dungeon, full of adventure - a real find for fans of extreme relaxation. To get to the cave, you will need to show dexterity and courage. A forty-five-minute horseback ride through the primeval jungle of the reserve, striking with a huge variety of tropical plants, animals and birds, and then the same amount of walking along a wild trail hidden in dense palm thickets and leading to the entrance to the cave. Then, with the help of ropes, you can go down to the Fun Fun cave from a height of 18 meters and see unforgettable bizarre landscapes created by nature itself: stalactite garlands and stalagmites thickets that, when they meet, form columns and even entire arches of the most amazing form. In the dungeons you can find lost lagoons and rivers, which even have to be crossed. But, despite the fact that the water of these “reservoirs” is icy, the feeling of extreme sports and the excess of adrenaline dull the feeling of cold. Wide passages in the cave alternate with narrow manholes, which can only be climbed on the knees, solid soil is replaced by underwater grottoes, and sometimes the only support will be a taut rope. In mysterious darkness, with artificial light of lamps, to the beckoning sounds of underground waters, it is possible to feel like Indians, whose life is told by wall letters and relief drawings on the rocks of the cave.