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Ninety seconds on Dachstein-Rieseneishöhle
This cave stays below freezing even in summer, so bring warm clothes. Visits are by guided tour only, from May to the first of November.
Tours run in German and English, and groups are called at the counter by the middle station. From there you walk up to the cave entrance.
Inside, the route covers eight hundred metres with eighty metres of steps, past ice that grows through the winter and melts back a little in summer. The cave stays at two degrees below freezing, so wear warm layers and shoes with grip.
The tour lasts fifty minutes. The mammoth cave on the same path is a second tour.
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