Dachstein Mammoth Cave — Local services in Obertraun

This is an interesting tourist spot. The "Mammoth" is a reference to its vastness. There is nothing related to a mammoth fossil or such.

The grains, textures, and fault lines in the rocks and caves are amazing, particularly for people that love rocks. In a lot of places the caves gives a feeling of underground labyrinth, which reminds me of D&D games.

But I can totally understand people that do not have much appreciation for rocks will find it boring. And certainly this tour was different from the nearby ice cave, which has a lot of light shows and music effects.

All in all I loved this tour. Only thing was that the trip is mostly walking. (The guide did stop at the most beautiful spots to do some briefing, but all of them were brief.) And some parts of the tour was quite slippery due to dripping water.

And the room is pretty chill (a few degree celsius above zero). So keep your coats on.

Very young kids might get tired from the 45 mins of tour and need carrying. And there were quite some flights of...

Impresive tour where you can find naturaly created cave from water/wind. In there is about 500 stairs so be prepared!😁 Temperature inside feels hood for warmer shirt/shorts or shorts/hoodie. We have got Benjamin as tour guide big shout out to this guy! Deserves all the good. Very kind guide,good speech,good jokes very friendly guy. We have it in last minute because every tourstarts at xx:55 min. we run last 200h meters and he welcomed us with “Hey there i almost close the door” 🤣 Thanks and one more time big shout...

Impressive biiiig cave formed by impressive nature- also suitable for people that have problems with limited space.. two stars missing as in this cave there are not really special attractions except the gigantic cave .. the ice cave has more „sparkles“.. besides I was disappointed by the carelessness of the guides- there were two of them but they both went in front and not one in front and one in the back- in the back there were two times people slipping without any interaction by the guides ( not sure if...