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This cave is located near Roodafshan village and on the Tehran-Firouzkouh road.
The distance between Roodafshan village and the cave is about 1000 m. For climbing, it is important to have proper clothes and special equipment. First of all, we must go across a bridge and then upward in a serpentine road.

The entrance of the cave is elliptic with a 30 m width and 20 m height, and from this perspective, it has the biggest natural entrance and it is very attractive to the all tourists and cavers. After passing this big entrance with a sloped surface and stony and rocky way, we reach to the second entrance, which is rather smaller than the first. Here, again the ground and the floor of the cave are smooth and a large portion of it receives light from the first entrance.

About 35,000 years ago, due to the Damavand’s volcanic activities, the entrance of the cave that was hidden behind a big and huge rock, was cracked and little by little, it propagated. According to the opinion of archeologists the skeleton discovered there belonged to the Achaemenian or the Sassanid period.

The cave has plentiful of stalactites and stalagmites. Although the cave is wet, we can’t see any running water.

The depth of the cave is 700 or 800 m. At the end, there is an elevated passage to a small room. By using a ladder, we can climb into the small room. This room leads to the other sections of the cave through a narrow hallway. In this part of cave, the water is stagnant on some parts, but water current could be detected underneath.

The average temperature inside the cave is 6 degrees centigrade and the length of the main road is about 510 m. The distance between two halls is 20 m. For the tourists it is better to go with a guide and have sufficient means of caving.

For me , it was a pleasant experience discovering its beautiful halls and rooms ; one of the halls was like a big place full of stone soldiers standing there ; the other room was called " Satan's room" -as the guide told us- n I found it very interesting, although entering that room was not much easy! It was really an adventurous one day trip.