DAY 8a
Week 2
CARLSBAD CAVERNS (New Mexico, USA)
Friday January 13th, 2006
TODAYS MILEAGE – 558 miles or 898 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 2333 miles or 3756 kilometres
The major attraction at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park is the large cave chamber, named the "The Hall of the Giants" otherwise known as the "Big Room".
It is a natural limestone chamber that is almost 4,000 feet (1,220 m) long, 625 feet (191 m) wide, 255 feet (78 m) high at the highest point, with a floor space of 357,469 square feet (33,210 m2). It is the fifth largest chamber in North America and the twenty-eighth largest in the world. 
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