Sodom salt cave

Hi,

We have the longest! Not the highest mountain, or the widest river but we the longest salt (halite) cave in the world – Sodom salt cave 🙂.

Sodom salt mountain (were the cave located), raise above Israel most important record – the Dead sea. We call it the Salt sea, which can easily explain how you have a mountain of salt just above it 😉.

This discovery of longest salt cave in the world is here is even more sweet, when you understand that record was belong to a salt cave in Iran 🙂. What made everybody here so happy about it. Not only our cave set the new world record, but it took it from the Iranians, that their leaders promise to erase Israel from the face of earth 💪

The problem with natural salt cave, and Sodom salt cave among it, is that they are quickly changing. A part such as the “birth tunnel” can be sealed next year.
But the real reason I am writing you about it, is that I visited some of them and never sent a single pic 😨. So have fun looking on those 😉

Take care
Gad

Looking at the entrance to “Sodom salt cave” from inside (this is not the longest one)

Entering the first of two. It can be easily seen from the road.

Layers of salt (halite)

Getting inside….

At the shaft entrance…

The shaft!

Couple more pics of the shaft

The entrance to Colonel salt cave

Squeezing in

Some red indicate iron

Beautiful crystal salt

Beautiful crystal salt

The shaft of colonel salt cave. None is impressive as it is in reality. A point you are admiring Nature/God and stand there with you mouth open.