The marble cathedral of Chile: Are these the world's most beautiful caves?

[Judi Lynn]

The marble cathedral of Chile: Are these the world's most beautiful caves?
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:24 PM on 1st August 2011

Welcome to the Marble Cathedral - a natural wonder that could be the world's most beautiful cave network.
An azure temple created by nature, the walls of this network of water-filled marble caverns show just how magnificent the precious geography of our planet can be.

Visitors to the water-sculpted blue caverns see light reflected off the turquoise waters of South America's second largest freshwater lake, General Carrera in Patagonia, Chile.

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Light bounces into the caverns and strikes the carved marble walls, creating this enchanting lightshow.

The incredible set of pictures has been captured by landscape photographer and environmentalist, Linde Waidehofer, 67, from Colorado, USA.

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[era veteran]

1. Beautiful

[mopinko]

2. the strange thing about this

is that, afaik, there is almost no such thing as blue marble. i am hardly an expert, but a lover of marble. have done a lot of tile projects, mosaics, etc. and i have been to india, where everything is made of marble, and have never seen anything past a bluish gray.

wish i had a big ole chunk of this.