The Cave Raj is one of the most beautiful karst caves in Poland.
The 180-meter-long tourist route open to visitors leads oneby one through the Komora Wstępna (Preliminary Chamber) to the 30-meter-high Złomisk Chamber, which is the largest room in the cave with an impressive column called the Harp. Next is the Column Hall, in which there is a huge dripstone column resembling a waterfall and pizzoids, i.e., loose ball-shaped dripstones called cave pearls.
At the end of the route, we will see the Stalactite Hall, where you can admire numerous stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Their number exceeds 200 pcs / sq m. The attraction of the cave is the museum, where the remains of animals discovered in the cave are worth seeingn including a mammoth tooth, bones of a woolly rhinoceros and a bear, and tools of work of Neanderthal people who probably around 50,000 years ago inhabited this cave.
Right next to it in a spherical dome, there is the Neanderthal Center an interactive exhibition showing life in the Ice Age including a life-size replica of the mammoth.
This place is on following trails
Chęcińsko-Piekoszowska Loop Chęciny - Chęciny
57,2 km
Chęciny Dolny Rynek - Kielce Karczówka
17,6 km
5:30 h
From Paradise to Hell (Time for Forest)
14,6 km
4:30 h
Świętokrzyskie Archeo-Geological Route
Zgórskie Mountains (Time for Forest)
6,96 km
2:10 h