Underground excursion «Askold's Cave» from the tourist company «Matei Travel»

• Temperature underground: in summer it is slightly cool up to + 17/+ 20 ℃, in winter it is always warmer than on the surface: + 10/+ 14 ℃.
• Clothes for the season: any comfortable clothes that you don't mind getting dirty, or clothes in dark colors.
• Shoes for the season: any comfortable, shoe covers are provided, you can take rubber boots, then shoe covers will not be needed.
• For maximum comfort in shoe covers, it is important to have jeans / shorts with belt loops, or take your belt with you to tie the shoe covers to it.
• Other: cap/hat, any gloves, raincoat, these clothes are recommended but not required.
• For your convenience, do not take with you large backpacks and other things that may be unnecessary on the excursion.
• Equipment: a lantern, it is provided for the excursion, but if you have your own, then it will not interfere.

• The organizer of the event reserves the right to postpone the date of the excursion or tour, or to appoint an additional date if there are relevant requirements/conditions/recruitment of a large number of participants or in case of bad weather or other force majeure circumstances, which you will be informed about in advance.

Are excursions safe if they are underground?

• Underground excursions are conducted exclusively in proven places, absolutely safe for visiting with a guide, subject to safety rules.
• The group going underground is always accompanied by a dispatcher who monitors the weather and other factors from the surface.
• The routes on which the excursions take place include warning signs on the walls about safe evacuation exits, which are visible from afar and are known to the guide.
• The guides have many years of experience in escorting underground, they always have a first aid kit with them.
• The guides of the company have passed the training course First Emergency Premedical Aid from the All-Ukrainian Union of Paramedics and have a corresponding certificate certifying practical knowledge.

Contraindications for visiting underground excursions

• Such excursions are not recommended for people with diseases of the heart, back, legs, as well as fears of a confined space.

Is it comfortable to breathe underground?

• On all underground excursions, it is comfortable to be and breathe, since a large network of ventilation holes emerges from the ground to the surface, supplying clean air to the tunnels included in the excursion routes.

Is the excursion dirty if it is underground?

• The mud is different, usually it is clean, there is no garbage or some kind of waste on the route of the excursion, on the floor and walls you can see growths of stalactites and stalagmites, brickwork and concrete floors.

Are there sewage, sulfur, or other odors on the tour?

• Not unless someone on the surface has made an illegal sewer tap into the drainage system (sewer / drainage system), which provides pure rainwater or groundwater only. There is a smell of dampness, moisture, because underground water flows into the tunnel underground.

Is there water along the route?

• A tour of the collector, that is, an engineering structure hiding a river underground: usually the water level here is + 5/15 cm, no more, but if the weather suddenly deteriorates and a heavy downpour is expected, it is dangerous to be in the collector and in this case the excursion is canceled and postponed for a good, rainless breed. In winter, the water in the collector does not freeze, there is a relatively stable plus year-round temperature, the water level does not change from the melting of snow on the route of the excursion.
• An excursion through the drainage system or DShS, that is, an engineering structure that drains underground and rainwater: usually the water level here is + 5/10 cm, not more, but if suddenly the weather has deteriorated and a heavy downpour is expected, in the drainage systems along which excursions are held, to be safe, in this case the excursion is completed and not postponed. In winter, the drainage system does not freeze, there is a relatively stable plus year-round temperature, the water level does not change from the melting of snow on the route of the excursion.

• Mon-Sun: 09:00-20:00.