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Fifteen minutes' drive north of the Francia plantation, Harrison's Cave (40min tours daily 9am-4pm; B$25) is an enormous subterranean labyrinth, where underground streams and dripping water have carved huge limestone caverns with stalactites hanging like teeth from the ceilings and weirdly shaped stalagmites pushing up from the cave floor. The existence of caves here has been known for over two hundred years, though it was only by accident that the caves you'll see on your tour were discovered in 1970, and subsequently opened up to the public. No serious potholing is expected of you - you're taken underground and around the various chambers on an electric tram, which, with the guide's mechanized voice-over, rather spoils the eerie, otherwise soundless atmosphere of the place. However, it can't completely detract from the beauty - you'll be hard put to find more spectacular cave scenery anywhere in the world
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