Fall 2007 - Timpanogos Caves, Utah

Fall has come!
Fall 2007
Visited Timpanogos Caves today. It is a nice place to visit - one can get both hiking and scenery. Hike is 1.5 miles up which is a bit tiring if you are not used to hiking. Tour inside the cave is really worth. To enter the caves, one needs to buy the ticket at the visitor center before starting the hike. Once you reach the start of the cave, you will join a tour guide who will take you inside the caves with full explanation and commentary.

In our tour, there were 5-6 lovely kids who asked the guide questions all the time - questions ranging from, 'why is that lizard shaped?' to, 'will the rocks crack and fall on us now?'. Once, in the middle of the cave, tour guide wanted us to experience 'pitch dark' and announced that he would turn off the lights for a moment. It was just wonderful to experience it. Another trick he did was, he asked, 'does any of you ladies have a diamond ring?'. Actually, a real one! One lady turned up who was there with her family. Guide asked, 'is that ring real or no-real?'. 'It better be real', said her husband. That husband went on to say that he bought it paying a high price and it ought to be real. Ok. Coming to the trick, the guide, switched off all the lights and put a small Lazer torch on it. The whole place was marvelously illuminated with reflections of that diamond ring. Not many would have seen such a thing (even though we know it from Science textbooks), I would believe.

Pictures of today's visit are posted on the web @ My PicasaWeb.

Comments

Vanditha said…
Photos are superb!!
6:56 AM, October 01, 2007
M said…
Beautiful flowers Shyam,Greate foto!!
10:37 AM, October 01, 2007
Satish said…
good pictures!
2:06 AM, October 02, 2007
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