The Ice Caves! Day 2, part 2...5/27/16
We left off at the entrance of the Eisreisenwelt Ice Caves. We made it up the mountain....Alex practically ran up the last section of the climb, I felt as if I barely made it at a crawl. But we were here! We made it into that little hole of an entrance we could see from down below and now we waited for our tour to begin. Yea, that's right, I can finally sit down for 15 minutes! And be so thrilled that I actually made it up the mountain! The worst part had to be over right? We've been in caves before. When they say there are 1400 steps in the cave, how difficult could they be? ONLY 700 steps are up, and surely there will be plenty of stopping to look at the ice. Finally, our group was ready to go. There were about 8 or so English speaking people and maybe 20 or so German speaking people in our group. The English speaking got to line up first. The caves are totally dark. There is no electricity in the caves at all to protect the structures. So, what they do is ...