Pestera Ialomicioara

Ialomicioara cave is situated at an altitude of 1660m in 10km from the mountain springs Old Ialomita River. Semielipsa shaped cave opens on a horizontal terrace at 18m above the valley bottom. Initially this terrace there, the cave entrance is obscured by the debris, so access to the cave was very hard.
Meets the first cave entrance known as the Cave Mihnea Voda, spacious and mostly sunny morning, keeping the large size of over 100m depth. It is characterized by an almost horizontal soil relatively dry. Before 1924 the river flowed through this grotto cave, where entire regions washed excavation. Today the river is underground before it reaches the Ialomita cave and flows much higher.
Change their orientation to the bottom cave to the north and reduces its size than the right to form a small cave called Camara. Mihnea Voda Cave continues with a passage called the gallery was enlarged in 1897 to its current dimensions. Before that date it had only 40cm width lane which does not allow visitors to enter than Taras and only when waters were low.
After this passage Decebal Grotto enter a dome-shaped cavern, in which open more galleries, one of these galleries and clog the opening to the right heading for the west.
To the left you can see St. Mary's Grotto arrived at a threshold crossing over large boulders and wet, slippery. Cave continues to the southwest by a low and narrow gallery largely unexplored. Name of the caves comes from a feeling of similarity with the statue of the Virgin Mary stalagnite caused by shadows and lights.
Main Gallery which has a long way further than 40m and stop there against the wall of stone that seems to close down the cave. Climbing the wall Dupe in another gallery with slippery ground which lies along a crack ending in a small cave.
After it crosses the cavern is reached in the place called At the crossroads. At 35m above the main caves where the road divides, descending in a right hand tight to get a larger cavity, the cave where the river crosses two lakes, which initially had a depth of 12 m length and 3-3.5 m
On the left wall climbing rocks to get to Cave Bear, the largest cave in the cave with more than 72m long, 35m wide, 25m tall. This cave is devoid of water, the ground covered by many bolobani. On discovering they were found numerous bones and whole skeletons of cave bears (Ursus spelacus Blum "), some of which on the surface, what do you suppose that from 2000 to 2500 years ago there were the last hiding places of the cave bear.
From the Cave Bear, NV gallery opens to 2m high over a length of about 30m was originally called Cave bottom embellished by many columns that linked the vault floor.
Water still on the gallery until Shrine, 75m long, 2m wide and 3m high with the same orientation NV flowing river cave. Accessible cave ends Shrine, where stalactites are arranged so that gives the impression of a church altar.
The total length of the main gallery to the Shrine is over 400m, and the difference of level between the Shrine and cave is 60m.
Ialomita Cave formation is due to the dissolution of long-standing water on limestone.
This monument has been known now 400-500 years, but organized research began in 1897 when the first lift was performed and the exact topometric.