The Marble Caves

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Carved into the Patagonian Andes, the Cuevas de Mármol or Marble Caves are located on a peninsula of solid marble bordering Lake General Carrera, a remote glacial lake that spans the Chile-Argentina border.

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Let's look at a natural wonder that could easily be termed the world’s most beautiful cave network.
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Lets’ look at a natural wonder that could easily be termed the world’s most beautiful cave network.

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The walls of this network of water-filled marble caverns show just how magnificent the precious geography of our planet can be.
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The blue caverns offer an incredible display of light, which is so rich thanks to the way the incredible sky of Patagonia is reflected into the waters of South America’s second largest freshwater lake, General Carrera.
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An enchanting lightshow is created due to the light from the water bounces into the caverns and strikes the strangely carved marble walls.
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In her book on the caverns, Blue Light, author Linde explained that tt is the water which formed the sinuous shapes of the marble walls - these waters are magic.
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A cathedral unlike you've ever seen, lies in the middle of South America's second most major lake.
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It makes up with an abundance of marble what it lacks in wooden doors, pews or sermons.
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Travelers’ hoping to take in the cave's beauty can only do so by boat as
there are no steps to get to the Marble Cathedral in Chile's General Carrera Lake.
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