An Introduction to the Bear Cave

An extremely attractive tourist route with unique and well-preserved dripstone formations and a large number of bones of Ice Age animals runs along the middle level, open to tourists.

The exception is the Extreme Route. This is the only opportunity to enter parts of the Lower Parts of Bear Cave and see the cave through the eyes of a cave explorer.

Sympathetic, although rather strange people watched with great attention the rocks from which I am built, examined the air I breathe, the water through which I was born....

Most attention was paid to excavating and examining the bones of the unfortunate bears that protected themselves, gave birth and died in my nooks and crannies. They were named cave bears and that's how I became a Bear.

The richness of the various calcite formations made people decide to make me a tourist site. After 17 years of preparation, construction of a special route, lighting and construction of an entrance pavilion, I was opened on June 11, 1983.  

I can be visited in groups of up to 15 people at intervals of 20 or 15 minutes. Annually I can be visited by no more than 85 thousand tourists.

Tours are conducted under the expert guidance of guides, who fulfill a very important role. They tell interesting stories to tourists, while taking care of their safety and mine.