Amethyst Caves

After the wedding last weekend, Heather took Leon and I to the Amethyst Caves, which weren't too far from the wedding hall.

This is the outside of the caves, with waterfall. They turned the whole place into a small amusement park, which you can kind of tell from the picture:


Here are the mountains nearby the caves:



The carousel and the base of the mountains. It was pretty cloudy and foggy back there:

This is inside the caves:

This appears to be a tree growing within the rocks, but I'm not sure if it's real or artificial:

The caves had all sorts of lame science shit, like this evolution of man exhibit:

Apparently man evolves into a cell phone-toting advanced primate:


Here's another exhibit showing Korean miners. It's freaky:

A group of people on the boat tour, which we also took later:


Amethyst, I assume:

Amethyst scattered within the walls:

There was an Egyptian exhibit for some reason. It was so lame I didn't even bother taking pictures of it, except for this mummy:

There was a circus inside the caves for some reason. Here are some shots and videos of the teenaged gymnasts from China:

Here's a video of our boat tour (yes, the boat was spinning around in a circle a couple times):

The whole thing was kind of boring, but it was still nice to see. It's funny, when Heather pulled over and asked some old guy for directions, he kept saying to her, what do you want to go there for? There's nothing to see. He was sort of right, but the boat ride was cool.

Oh, yeah, and because we were going there right after the wedding, I had a chance to feel very Korean. I had worn high heels to the wedding, of course, and then went trekking around caves and rode an inflatable boat, which I thought I was going to pop. Wearing heels totally inappropriately is the sign of a real Korean woman.