In Chile, the tourists are offered a tour of the mine.


specially for tourists was opened coffin "Draught Devil", which is located near the town of Lota. Mine so named because of the whistling wind, which is heard in the underground rooms. More than a hundred years in this mine of coal. Now the mine is not producing coal.


Tours are for groups of 5 persons. With the help of a metal cage elevator trippers descend to a depth of 50 meters. It's cold, damp and dark. Visitors will be able to see the underground gallery: wooden racks designed to protect a set of collapse, carved a niche in the rock, which served the miners for rest and meals, an empty birdcage, which held the bird. If the concentration of methane in the air increased, the bird died, and all the miners quickly rose to the top.


During the tour guides and miners tell jokes, tradition, custom, myths and jokes, in one way or another connected with mining activities. Depending on the chosen route tour lasts from 30 minutes to two hours.


 


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