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Mhm.

Just imagine, about 500 years ago, lava flooding down through this tube.

It's about a mile long.

And for the celebration of the centennial of the park, they're letting very small select groups take a tour through here.

Mhm.

Let me introduce you to AB AB is gonna show us through the tunnel.

Welcome to Pope Paul.

It's so delicate in here.

And it's so fragile.

And this place is awesome.

And I feel like a guest in here every time.

It's a new experience.

Let's go.

All right.

Hello, my.

Which means follow me.

Yeah, All of this was scoured out by the lava, and then the roof area was the top that crusted over.

To be able to move this much and create a tube, it must be pretty fast.

Yeah, you cannot run that kind of love.

You know, if you can imagine, it's red, red hot in here.

And the lava just melts the upper surface and causes the sickle cell phone.

Mhm.

Uh, these words are coming from the ceiling of the lava tube and above us is rainforest.

Yeah, you can call it almost looks like some big earth moving equipment came through here and dug up the bottom of the cave.

This was the upper surface.

And then this is all still molten growing underneath it until it's all drained away.

Mhm.

We're in the area that's called the Amphitheater, because there's a big opening here in the absence of light.

Then this place becomes totally and utterly black.

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Yeah.

This is the area where we need to crouch.

And when you get to the other side, don't stand up to suddenly These are the standing lava waves and kind of let them flow.

So it came through it harder than it came through It hardly.

This is the only place that we know of where this is a frozen standing love away formation in the opportunity it looks staged like a Hollywood set.

So, at this point, actually, if you see above, that's our exit.

Wow, That's amazing.