The longest cave in Sudety, located in the Śnieżnik Mountains in the Kłodzko Valley, is considered to be one of the most beautiful caves in Poland.
The Bear Cave [Pol. Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia] in Kletno is one of the most interesting underground attractions not only in Lower Silesia, but also throughout Poland. It owes its name to the remains of a species of a cave bear found there, which went extinct by the end of the last glaciation, nearly 30,000 years ago. For millions of years, the waters of the Kleśnica stream have been wearing away the underground corridors, forming the outstanding shapes the cave’s speleothems have taken. It is precisely in order to admire these various types of speleothems – stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, cascades and draperies – created by deposits of calcium carbonate in the form of calcite crystals, that each year thousands of people decide to take a specially prepared tourist route and visit the very cave. The trip, lasting approximately an hour, allows visitors not only to appreciate the natural beauty of the Bear Cave, but also to feel, at least for a moment, as if they were its first explorers in the 1960s.
