Nemocon an Underground Marvel in Colombia

Nemocon a great construction to 80 meters deep. During the celebration of the Holly Week in Colombia, it is ideal to know the bowel of the Earth.

To only 65 kilometers to the north of Bogota you arrive to the Nemocon town in the county of Savanna Centro, where the tourist discovers an authentic mine of underground salt.

With more than 500 years of history, the Mine of Salt of Nemocon is constituted in one of the most beautiful experiences inside what Colombia can offer in tourist matter: a world full with culture, history and fun in the most imposing construction to 80 meters deep.

From the entrance, for a tunnel, you arrive to the imposing receipt room with more than eight meters high where the journey begins for some footpaths that from 1801, they have gone giving it makes to this mine.

Nemocon Underground Mine
Nemocon Underground Salt Mine

As you advance for among the amazing construction you arrive to the Room of the Mirrors of Water in the Santa Barbara Tunnel. Of there it is continued to the living room of dances and events, before finding the cascade of salt with more than 80 years of antiquity.

But there it doesn't finish this adventure. Then you arrive to the well of the desires and of there to the room of the Chapel of Salt, where you will be able to revive the mining tradition with their enormous sphere carved in rock of salt of 1.300 karats.

The astonishment is enlarged again when arriving to the heart, an unique glass of salt of the one that without a doubt you will fall in love.

The underground trip will also allow him to travel the city of the stalactites, the well San Juan, the saturation tanks, the Santa Barbara tank, a natural mirror of brine 15 meters long.

Facts of interest

The mine opens up every day. Every day, of nine of the morning at five of the afternoon, the Mine of Salt of Nemocon is open to the public.

The entrance rate is of $5 dollars for adult and $2.4 dollars for children, people with incapacities and bigger adults. Among the complementary services they offer recreation workshops, of pasta of salt and of marble work, to $0.90 dollars for person, for workshop. The municipality has excellent restaurants with offer for all the likes.

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