Texas is home to over three thousand known caves and seven of them are "show" caves (where you can go take guided tours). Those seven are:
Cascade Caverns
The Cave Without A Name
The Caverns of Sonora
Inner Space Cavern
Longhorn Cavern
Natural Bridge Caverns
The Wonder Cave.
Diversion into a personal anecdote: The show caves are all pretty centrally located in the Hill Country from San Marcos up to Georgetown and fanning out around Boerne, Burnet and Sonora. The Lone Star Girl and I, with the sometime company of my baby sister, a Girl Scout camper extraordinaire, visited all of them on a series of tiny weekend vacations when the Lone Star Girl was between the ages of four and eight. We started caving because the Lone Star Girl had an early interest in geology, but it became a goal of ours - to see all of them by the time she was eight - and we did it. We visited the last of them mere weeks before I became with child again. It was great fun.
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I'd like to visit caves that have guided tours. I'd REALLY like to see bats fly out of a cave.
In Austin, There is a maternal colony of bats that lives under a bridge and they fly out every evening to hunt for about 5 months out of the year...there are bazillions of them. People go sit on a grassy bank and watch. It's very cool.
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