Ceilings in Thermal Caves

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Hello my name is Laszlo. We are going in this matteous cave which is under the Buda hill and I will teach you about caving. As we get deeper and deeper we have tighter and tighter walls so don't be afraid, just lay down on your stomach and slide through head first and then you find yourself in a big room. We are in the big room. It is very tricky because the first someone who arrived here said it was a big room but much later some other people found more rooms which were bigger so in this way the other rooms had other names. Since then as they found it we called it the big room. Before we go as you look up here you can see that the ceiling is not straight. There are so many odd shaped holes. There are smaller holes and bigger ones for example and it means that some hundred thousand years ago the tama waters which are forced under us came up and after ran back. As it was coming here and met with the other water which was coming from the surface it formed the cave so if you are in a very small cave or very small corridor it used to be tighter and by dissolvation it was getting bigger and bigger and as it was moving it formed the ceiling here and sometimes on the walls there. In fact in the world there are just a few caves formed by the tama water and that is why this cave is a very unusual place. In fact it is very good because there is no water from the surface and that is why it is very very dry always but it doesn't have any stalactites because they cannot grow here because there is no water from the ceiling. Before you go in a cave don't go alone and don't go without any guide. It is very very important. It is dangerous.

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