Rubeland

Rübeland is a mountain village set amongst limestone cliffs and noted for its caves. Park near Baumans Höhle and choose between a tour of this cave system or Hernmanns Höhle, a series of caves found just across the River Bode. We chose Baumans because of the availability of a tour and were led on a 45-minute walk through passages to caves with magnificent displays of stalagmites and stalactites (the tour was in German and information in English was not available). We understood that the tour of Hernmanns was very similar, but included a pool that contained “cave fish,” blind, white, eel-like creatures that live out their lives in darkness. (9:45 am–4:15 pm, daily.)