Caves in Bihor

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• The Bears Cave (86 km away from Oradea, on the national road DN 76, Oradea - Sudrigiu village (DJ 763 Chiscau village), a cave of a rare beauty, delighting the visitor with a magificent speologic architecture. The speologic preserve (more then 1 km in length at an altitude of 419 m) hosts a vast range of stalagmites and stalactites as well as fossil traces of the cave bear-species extincted 15,000 years ago.
  
• The Wind Cave (near Suncuius, on the left bank of the Crisului Repede river), it is the longest cave in Romania - more than 4 km, traversed by an underground watercourse, with rich corrosion phenomena. The Wind Cave is famous all over the world due to these rare features. It only can be visited in the presence of a guide.
  
• The Alive Fire Cave (a 2 hours walk from Padis chalet), it is located at an altitude of 1,120 m and includes a glacier with a volume of 25,000 cubic m, the second one in Romania in terms of size, glittering in the sunlight because of a "window" in the ceiling that casts tight inside the cave, leaving the fairylike impression of an alive fire".
  
• The Meziad Cave, on the national road DN 76 up to Beius, then 16 km deviation, spelaeological preserve in the Padurea Craiului Mountains, one of the biggest caves in Romania (4,750 m in length, on several levels). It  can only be visited in the presence of a guide.

Other caves: The Old Man's Cave, in the Oldlmas Depression. The Ciur-Ponor Cave, the longest underground watercourse in Romania, 5,000 m. The Corbasca Cave, famous for the richness of big concretions. The Bortig Glacier. The Cave in the Bârsa Ravine in the Bihor Mountains, at an altitude of 1,100 m. The Vadu Crisului Cave, on the national road DN I up to Topa of Cris, then a 6 km deviation, it is set for visiting, 5 km in length. The Cave from Tasnad (20 km south-east of Oradea), near Tasnad. The ,,Radeasa's Fotresses Cave" (an 1 - 2 hours walk from Padis chalet), famous because of its five natural windows, the sunlight gives the rocks a fantastic image.