On the right is some nicely congealed volcanic lava at the point where the lava originally started flowing. According to the signs it all came out of what is now the big pit below. It was flowing through a tunnel, and when the lava cooled and retreated, the tunnel collapsed, leaving yet another cave. Oddly enough there were no steps down to visit it.
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For some reason local tourists are really attracted to all kinds of small, strange caves. Here is the line up to stand in the mouth of one partially filled with cold water, which made it yet another attraction. That extremely damp cave is called the fairy palace. Perhaps the name is more sensible in Chinese….
1 l+ Z9 m. b- |: zFinally, we got to the bottom and found that almost 300 years later, the lava field is still a black, shattered desert that looks like this. Claire, on the right, demonstrates how extraordinarily rough parts of that lava field are. |