Up for a challenge Indiana Jones?

This Easter holiday my family decided to have a roadtrip to San Antonio with my uncle that was in town visiting. It was great! We rented a little 12 person van and headed off to see Shamu and the Alamo. I think though, that the most interesting part of the trip was the stop we made at Natural Bridge Caverns just 20 minutes outside of San Antonio.  

The rock formations where simply amazing and for someone who had never been in a cave, the experience was pretty spectacular! And not to mention a bit of a work out since we walked and climbed 3/4 of a mile.

What I loved the most was the creativity of the names that we encountered for different rock formations along the way such as Sherwood forest named after the forest in Robin Hood. According to the tour guide the 4 college students who had discovered the caverns in the early 1960s, liked to read a lot and they named all of the rooms and rock formations for different philosophers and famous characters in literature. When I was there, however, I was honestly thinking about the entrance to the Underworld of Greek mythology the whole time...I'm glad that nothing like Hades came out to greet us though...Also when they said the giant slabs of limestone surrounding us were billions of years old I couldn't help to flash back to the good old days of biology. Around where we were standing some of the formations glittered and looked like a big pile of sand that had been mixing itself and chemically compounding itself with water for billions of years...and I couldn't help to feel goosebumps when I thought about how, a long time ago according to our tour guide, where I was standing there was actually an ocean.

I do have to say, cave explorers are some pretty courageous people. I can't imagine crawling into a small hole in the earth without knowing exactly what to expect at the end of the other side, if there is one...and not to mention the claustrophobia! Thanks to these courageous men though, we can enjoy and study the beauty of places like these and it is definitely worth it.