Ain Wazein Grotto مغارة عين وزين الطبيعية

مغارة عبارة عن تجاويف تشبه الى حد بعيد الدهاليز أو الأنفاق شكّلت المياه الجوفية المتدفقة في باطنها عاملاً مؤثراً جداً في تكوين عوالم من القبب والمنحوتات بمحيط ممرات متشعبة تحت منحوتات طبيعية تتندّى بقطرات مياه ملوّنة بموزاييك يتناغم بين التاريخ والتطور، وتركيبات أرضية تكوّنت من سلاسل وصخور تتناوب مع تلك الكلسية منها، الى جانب سلسلة من التركيبات التي يُشبه بعضها تراب الصلصال الرمادي اللون أحياناً والذي يشكل طبقات رقيقة في محيط الصخور خصوصاً وإنها ترقى الى أزمنة سحيقة في القدم تتنوع فيها التكوينات الكارستية ضمن لوحة عجيبة الجمال.
يبلغ امتداد المغارة 426 متراً، من أصل مساحة أرضية تصل الى 5000 متراً مربعاً، وعلى علو 1040 متراً عن سطح البحر، وتبعد عن العاصمة 54كلم. . Ain Wazein Natural Grotto




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The Grotto is located in Ain Wazein on an altitude of 1040 meters above sea level. The Grotto that extends for 426 meters (till now) lies on Ain Wazein-Batloun road, near the northern end of Ain Wazein. The grotto was discovered in 2003. The preparation process lasted three years thanks to personal efforts. The grotto includes a set of passageways, crevices or halls, and vaults of varied width and height. These natural formations resulted from accumulated water and its pressure. The grotto includes many distinct formations of stalagmites and stalactites, and other dangling rock formations. It is one of the most beautiful grottos found in Lebanon, with its varied natural calcareous formations. Ain Wazein natural grotto is considered an important highly visited tourist site. It is situated in a beautiful natural environment. The grotto enjoys a scientific, as well as a historic significance. It is considered to be a continuous underground tourist site, and it serves in discovering the subsurface world. Ain Wazein grotto has beautiful calcareous formations found in its passages and sides. It is possible to organize scientific tours for high school and university students. This is possible because all geologic elements are clear in the grotto. It is possible also to carry out scientific research on its structural features. Ain Wazein Natural Grotto



ICavities and tunnels just like galleries, carved silently by the hands of water in the hollows of earth. Creating worlds of domes, and sculptures is a wonderful work that lasted for a million years. Human hands and imagination did not participate in creating its beauty. Carving and painting schools met together in this grotto, in order to reconcile and embrace in a common cause; to produce a distinguished sculpture added to the worlds of the charming Lebanese nature. Discovered in the year 2003, Ain Wazein Natural Grotto harbors rocks changed to narrow and branching passages, by waters flowing from the hollows of earth. Natural sculptures, suspended from its ceiling, flow in a musical procession along the notes of falling water droplets.