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For the registered participants of the conference we organize post-conference excursion to the most important karst regions of Hungary, for which we may accept prior entries only.
Deadline of entry: March 31, 2010.
Entry is valid after transfer of the participation fee only.
Participation fee of post-conference excursions: 15,000 HUF (55 EUR)
which includes guidance in the caves in the program and fee of the cave tickets.
For participants without vehicle the entire week-long transportation costs approx. 20,000 HUF which may vary depending of the number of entrants.
Meal: self catering.
Lodging: in camping: approx. 2000 HUF/person/night, in tourist home: approx. 3-5000 HUF/person/night
Tourist and overall cave tours as well as surface excursions in the area of the Bükk and Aggtelek National Parks:
Bükk
Tourist caves:Szent István Cave,
Anna Cave
Cave tours:
István-lápa Cave,
Szepesi-Láner Cave System,
Kiskőhát Shaft Cave,
Fekete Cave
Surface tours: Most important paleo-archeological caves in the Bükk Mountains
Cave Bath: Miskolctapolca Lake Cave
Aggtelek karst
Tourist caves:Baradla Cave,
Rákóczi Cave,
Földvári Aladár Cave
Cave tours:
Béke Cave,
Kossuth Cave,
Meteor Cave,
Vecsembükk Shaft Cave,
Almási Shaft Cave,
Szabó-pallag Shaft Cave
Surface tours: In the most beautiful reagions of the Aggtelek karst
Further information regarding the tour: Csaba Egri: csegri@freemail.hu
| Cadastral no.: | 5430-1 |
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| Length: | 25000 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 112 meter |
| Depth: | 86 meter |
| Height: | 26 meter |
It is the, most known, longest, increased protected cave of our country, researched longest-ago, visited since centuries. A 5.3 km long section, the Domica Cave of the total 25 km long system opening in the Aggtelek karst region is running beneath the area of Slovakia. The cave has been formed in Middle Triassic Wetterstein and Steinalm light gray limestone and the Jósvafő section in Guttenstein limestone as a result of solving and abrasive work of waters getting from the surface into the deep. The almost 7 km long meandrous main passage running between the villages of Aggtelek and Jósvafő is the bed of an underground river. The rock tunnel is 10 m wide, 7-8 m high as an average, and in some places it widens to huge chambers. More side branches connect to the main passage, more important ones are the Domica Cave, with the Csernai lake side branch (7000 m); the Retek (Reddish) branch (2750 m); the Törökmecset (Turkish mosque) branch (1130 m). The passages are decorated with dripstone columns, stalactites and stalagmites, run-offs and flags of varying colors and forms, providing a unique scene.
The natural entrance of Baradla, opened from times immemorial is located in the ambit of Aggtelek village, at the shank of the 51 m high rock wall, even the man of the neolithic has found a shelter there. The greatest part of more thousand findings turned up during the excavations is from the neolithic age.
The Baradla together with the other caves of the Aggtelek Karst as well as of the Slovakian Karst was pronounced by UNESCO being part of the World Heritage in 1995. And the entire cave system together with Domica Cave and its tributary area was placed under the effect of the Ramsar Convention fixing the protection of wet biotopes of international importance in 2001.
| Cadastral no.: | 5430-3 |
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| Length: | 7183 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 97 meter |
| Depth: | 71 meter |
| Height: | 26 meter |
It is the fourth longest, since 1982 increased protected cave of our country. Discovery of the 7.2 km long, independent system located about 600 m from Baradla and detected by water trace indication took place under the direction of László Jakucs, via the sinkhole of the Bíbic doline in 1952. In order to facilitate the admittance tunnels were headed at both endpoints. Side branch connects only in the vicinity of the sinkhole to the fissure-like, meandrous main passage formed in Triassic limestone, which is 4-10 m high and 4-5 m wide as an average, cut-up by elevated shores. Water of the creek filling the main branch here and there entirely comes to the surface in the Komlós spring. The water is backwatered by more than 430 travertine dams, forming 120 ponds. The main passage is split by 16 syphons, some of which may fill up during floods for a shorter or longer period. The passages are decorated by dripstone formations of varying colors, stalactites, dripstone run-offs, flags and interlacing travertine dams, forming cascaded pool series. The walls are articulated by conchoidal solution forms of varying size, mushroom-shaped rocks protrude from the water of the creek. Its largest chamber (Giant Hall) is 60 m long, 20 m wide, and the height reaches up to 18 m. In the two chambers close to the Jósvafő artificial entrance medical treatment of those suffering from respiratory tracts diseases takes place since decades. As an acknowledgement of the medical effect of the air it was pronounced as medical cave in 1969.
| Cadastral no.: | 5440-1 |
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| Length: | 1410 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 60 meter |
| Depth: | 32 meter |
| Height: | 28 meter |
Water of the active system opening at an elevation of 221 m above sea level in the ambit of Jósvafő village comes to the surface in the Nagy-Tohonya spring. Its existence was supposed by Hubert Kessler already in 1933 but the discovery took place in 1956 only, when they penetrated the cutting zone of the spring by an approximately 40 m long tunnel, formed by blasting. The total length of passages formed in Triassic limestone exceeds 1400 m. The bottom of the narrow main passage oriented to bedding-plane, decorated with solution forms, meandering, cut-up by elevated shores is filled by the creek in entire width here and there, which swells to a 50 m long lake at a place. To get further at the dry endpoint is made difficult by a 32 m deep, 170 m long syphon, through which the explorers could though get through after 40 years research at the end of 2009 but there their way was impeded by another newer syphon there. Above the main passage a 300 m long upper storey passage is running which is rich in dripstones and heavily argillized. Specialty of the system is that because of the effect of the warmed water of the deep karst its water is warmer than the water of the surrounding karst springs.
| Cadastral no.: | 5440-2 |
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| Length: | 2185 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 55 meter |
| Depth: | 12 meter |
| Height: | 43 meter |
It opens northwest from Jósvafő village, at an elevation of 273 m above sea level. The length of the periodically active system formed in Triassic limestone and dolomite exceeds 2000 m, the vertical dimension is 55 m. It was revealed by the members of the Budapest Technical University by stripping the flood seepage, in three sections in 1954-55. In the meandering main branch decorated with varying colored and shaped dripstone formations and well-developed solution forms petrological, mineralogical, meteorological, as well as hidrological observations were performed for more decades. A nearly 300 m long section of the main branch is built to the Lagunás syphon, it can be visited in smaller groups. To view the other passages permission and basic equipment is required.
| Cadastral no.: | 5452-1 |
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| Length: | 1672 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 127 meter |
| Depth: | 127 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
Its entrance opens on the Alsó-hegy (Lower Hill), at an elevation of 415 m above sea level, at the shank of a rock wall. The 127 m deep periodically active system of 1672 m total length and 167 m horizontal extension was discovered by cavers of the Vörös Meteor SE, by stripping the sinkhole of the Kisvizes doline in 1961. Although the connection between the cave and the Vecsem spring laying by 237 m deeper was quickly indicated by the investigation, researches performed from both directions have not produced any result yet. The passages here and there brashed, cut-up by shafts were formed in Triassic limestone. In the lower part of the cascaded deepening cave one of the largest cave chambers can be found, the 90 m long, 20-30 m wide Hall of Titans, which is made spectacular by the color and form exuberance of huge stalagmites and columns (Titans) as well as bamboo and macaroni stalactites, dripstone flags, run-offs, curtains, basins and the multitudinous appearance of helictites. The closed system can be visited on the allotted path, with permission only.
| Cadastral no.: | 5452-4 |
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| Length: | 900 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 236 meter |
| Depth: | 236 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
It opens on the plateau of the Alsó-hegy, in a height of 522 m above sea level, hard by the Slovakian state border. The system with its 900 m total length, formed in Triassic limestone, consisting of a big entrance and parallel located shafts of relatively large cross-section, belonging to the Slovakian Kör-kút and Zsámány springs is the second deepest cave of our country. First time it was tried to scour by Viktor Jordán in 1911 but he could descend 35 m only. Hubert Kessler got down with his companions to a depth of 91 m in 1927. The 83 m deep shaft of the shaft cave revealed to a depth of 236 m in 1969 is the largest single-section shaft in the country. Permission, caving experience as well as use of SRT equipment is required to visit it.
| Cadastral no.: | 5452-3 |
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| Length: | 1035 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 151 meter |
| Depth: | 151 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
It opens on the Szilasi plateau of the Alsó Hill, at an elevation of 495 m above sea level, in the side of a large doline. Its depth was tried to determine only by measurement in 1911. The first rovers were cavers of BETE under the direction of Hubert Kessler in 1927. Total length of the shaft system formed in Triassic limestone, along parallel fissures, cut-up by corrosion forms, decorated by dripstones is 950 m and the depth is 151 m, as a result of the revealing research restarted in the 1970’s and being in progress even today. To visit the shaft cave most frequently denominated as Gorge of Owls permission, application of SRT equipment and good physical condition is required.
| Cadastral no.: | 5452-2 |
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| Length: | 358 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 100 meter |
| Depth: | 100 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
The 100 m deep shaft opening with a natural entrance hard by the country border coursing the plateau of the Alsó Hill was formed in Triassic limestone, along a fissure and its walls are decorated by solution channels. In the chamber at the lower level of the shaft system belonging to the system of Tapolca, respectively Andó-garden springs springing in Slovakia on the other side of the border large size dripstones and travertine dams can be seen and on the bottom a periodical pond is located. First time dr. Hubert Kessler descended with his companions into the cave in 1927, its current depth was achieved during the discovery performed in 1969. For a long time it was registered as the deepest cave of our country. Permission and SRT equipment is required to visit it.
| Cadastral no.: | 5412-2 |
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| Length: | 650 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 79 meter |
| Depth: | 61 meter |
| Height: | 18 meter |
It opens from the mine openings laying at the elevation of 169.5 m above sea level of the abandoned quarry of Esztramos raising between Bódvarákó and Tornaszentandrás, in a distance of 160 m from the entrance. The exact date of its discovery is unknown, the first map was prepared in 1958. Length of the system formed in Triassic limestone along a vertical fissure, by dissolution under water level, cut-up by caldron-like solution forms is 650 m, the vertical dimension is 79 m. Its bottom is filled by lakes in two places. Its walls are decorated by color- and form-rich dripstone and pisolite separations sometimes deposited on each other, acicular calcites as well as aragonite bushes. The multitudinously occurring helictites among the huge sized, strongly redissolved dripstone flags are unique. The bigger part of the passages (350 m) runs under the water, the achieved largest depth is 44 m. The cave, which is closed, furnished with electric illumination, for the protection of the formations built with a steel walking level (ladders, bridges) standing on feet can be visited with a professional guide, in groups of max. 10 people only.
| Cadastral no.: | 5372-1 |
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| Length: | 1445 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 93 meter |
| Depth: | 16 meter |
| Height: | 77 meter |
It is a natural value increasedly protected since 1982, opened for mass tourism, voted as medical cave in 1991. It opens in Lillafüred, in the valley of the creek Szinva, beside the driveway to Eger, at an elevation of 327 m above sea level. It is the last member of the large system running under Létrástető-István-lápa. Smaller side passages, storey sections connect to the main passage decorated with dripstones of the periodically active spring cave formed in Triassic limestone, its total length is 1445 m. The discovery of further sections is hindered by a steady stream in its deep point. It can be visited since 1931 but the new entrance building was made in 2001. Regular medical treatment of children suffering from respiratory tracts diseases takes place in the Fekete Chamber.
| Cadastral no.: | 5391-1 |
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| Length: | 568 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 13 meter |
| Depth: | 4 meter |
| Height: | 9 meter |
Opened for mass tourism, increasedly protected since 1982. It was formed by the artificial expansion and connection of holes independent from each other, evolved in Lillafüred in the same time as the travertine deposited by the water of creek Szinva. The walls are decorated with lacy roots, leaves and other plantal residues covered by lime crust, as well as holes formed in place of the perished tree-trunks. The cave found during tunnel heading in order to utilize the water of the spring in 1833 was made visitable by building wooden bridges and stairs already in the 19th century but it was built and opened for the tourism in 1927 only.
| Cadastral no.: | 5372-6 |
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| Length: | 7300 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 254 meter |
| Depth: | 254 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
It is the deepest, increasedly protected cave of Hungary. The 254 m deep system of total length of approx. 7.3 km opening on the Bükk Large Plateau at an elevation of 554 m above sea level was revealed by the cavers of Miskolc by stripping a periodically active sinkhole in 1964. In the depth extending 200 m a spacious level passage connects to the cascading series of shafts formed in Triassic limestone, at both ends of which getting further is made more difficult by syphons. Large stack systems, syphon by-pass and storey passages are running above the main passage. The meandering creek bed is decorated by nice swirl caldrons and the walls by varying colored and formed dripstone formations, huge dripstone run-offs. According to hydrogeological investigations the cave is in connection with innumerable sinkholes of the plateau and perhaps it is part of the largest cave system in the Bükk. Its entrance is closed, permission, as well as application of SRT and a very good condition is required to visit it.
| Cadastral no.: | 5343-3 |
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| Length: | 479 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 117 meter |
| Depth: | 117 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
It opens in the side of Kis-kőhát raising at the edge of Nagymező, at an elevation of 915 m avove sea level. Its huge, 3x6 m size entrance is located in a 30x15 m terrain dip. Between the spacious entrance shaft of the 117 m deep and 479 m long cave formed in Triassic limestone and the 50 m deep shaft decorated with dripstones leading down to the bottom a huge section runs, named Giant Hall for its size. The bottom of the hall is formed of a thick, clayed debris mixed with broken dripstones, on the top of it stalagmites, columns have been formed. The paleontological findings found in the fill made possible to set a new stratigraphic unit, the Kőhát section. The bat bones helped to determine the onetime annual mean temperature. The relatively cold mean temperature of 4-6 °C provides an excellent winter quarters for the colony of more thousands of bats.
| Cadastral no.: | 5372-8 |
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| Length: | 2200 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 174 meter |
| Depth: | 174 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
The shaft system opening in the Bükk Mountains on the Large Plateau, at the southern end of Tekenősi Valley, at an elevation of 565 m above sea level, today known in a total length of more than 2 km and going down to a depth of 174 m is the third in the mountains. The cave was discovered by stripping a periodically working sinkhole in 1975. Variety of the enclosing rocks is shown by that the passages cross Triassic dolomite as well as limestone, porphyrite and Permian limestone. The step-like deepening shaft series is split by high gradient, short creek bed sections, clayey crawling passages, smaller or larger chambers. In its middle part an ample labyrinthic sinkhole zone is running, made peculiar by various dripstone formations. The walls are decorated by smaller dissolved forms and the meandering passages by elevated shores. In showeriness almost the entire cave is impassable for the significant water inflow.
| Cadastral no.: | 5372-3 |
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| Length: | 2500 meter |
| Vertical dimension: | 159 meter |
| Depth: | 159 meter |
| Height: | 0 meter |
A natural value in the Bükk Mountains formed by connecting two caves. It was formed in Triassic limestone, it opens on the Large Plateau at an elevation of 553 m above sea level. The entrance shaft series connects to a level, meandering, water-bearing passage, both ends of which are closed by syphons. In addition to the dripstone formations of various form and size the cave is decorated with active and inactive travertine pools and travertine dams. The total length of one of the most beautiful caves of the Bükk Mountains exceeds 2500 m and the depth approaches 160 m. The closed cave can be visited with a permission only.
