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Die Kangogrotte is geleë in die Klein Karoo sowat 30 kilometer buite Outshoorn, Suid-Afrika in die voetheuwels van die Swartberge in die Westelike Kaapprovinsie.

Hulle is een van die wêreld se mees beroemde en gewilde grotte vir toeriste, waarvan baie kom van buite die land in hulle te sien.

Die Kangogrotte strek uit vir ongeveer vier kilometer, alhoewel slegs omtrent 'n kwart van die tonnels oop is vir spelonk-ondersoekers.

Gidse hou toesig oor toere deur die gedeeltes wat oop is vir toeriste.

Die Kangogrotte is Afrika se enigste grotte wat besoekers toelaat om te kies tussen Standaard of maklike toere of Avontuurtoere, wat 'n groter uitdaging is en meer veeleisend.

Die Avontuurtoer sluit klouter deur nou gangetjies in en opskarrel teen rotsformasies in donker beligting binne die grotte.

Die Kangogrotte sluit betowerende formasies in van kalksteen in baie verskillende kleure.

Hulle is gevorm deur bewegings van die Aarde se kors en soos reënwater gemeng het met suurvormende koolstofdioksied wat gedrup het deur 'n fraktuur in die kors.

Sommige sou sê die die grotte is die wêreld se mooiste grotte met stalaktiete daarin.

Alhoewel die grotte ontdek is in 1780, het die eerste verkenning en uitgrawings nie begin viir jare later nie.

Die eerste opmeting is uitgevoer in 1897 en het die eerste ses-en-twintig kamers van die grotstelsel gedek.

Toe in 1930, het argeoloog Prof. A.J.H. Goodwin die grotte uitgegrawe en klip artefakte en ander items ontdek wat daarop gedui het dat mense in die viirste kamers van die grotte gewoon het vir baie geslagte tussen die middel- en later Steentydperke.

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The Cango Caves are located in the Klein Karoo about thirty kilometers outside Outshoorn, South Africa in the foothills of the Swartberg mountain range in Western Cape Province.

They're one of the world's most famed and popular caves for tourists, many of whom come from outside the country to see them.

The Cango Caves stretch out for approximately four kilometers, although only about one-quarter of the tunnels are open to spelunkers.

Cicerones superintend tours through the sections that are open to tourists.

The Cango Cages are Africa's only caves that allow visitors to choose between Standard or easy tours or Adventure tours, which are more challenging and strenuous.

The Adventure Tour includes clambering through narrow passages that and scrabbling up rock formations in tenebrous lighting inside the caves.

The Cango Caves include enthralling formations of limestone in many different colors.

They were formed by movements of the Earth's crust and as rainwater mixed with acidic carbon dioxide that dripped through a fracture in the crust.

Some would say that the caves are the world's finest caves with stalactites in them.

Although the caves were discovered in 1780, the first exploration and excavations of the caves didn't come until years later.

The first survey was conducted in 1897 and covered the first twenty-six chambers of the cave system.

Then in 1930, archeologist Prof.A.J.H. Goodwin excavated the caves and uncovered stone artifacts and other items which show that people have been living in the front chambers of the caves for many generations between the middle and Later Stone Ages.

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