Underground Explorer
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Availability
All year round
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Duration
3 hours
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Price from
£40
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Suitable for
Suitable for the fit and active explorers out there. No prior experience needed, but a healthy love of adventures and challenges helps! We offer our trips for ages 8+
Introduction
Cornwall Underground Adventures is offering adventurous caving trips in Cornwall's abandoned tin mines. Are you looking for interesting and exciting things to do in Cornwall? Then why not combine Cornwall's mining heritage with an exciting adventure underground? You can now experience the thrill of mine exploring with our experienced guides. Go below the surface and discover the subterranean world carved out by the Cornish miners over hundreds of years. The miners have long since vanished, but their legacy is a world beneath your feet, waiting to be discovered.
Learn about Cornwall's incredible past and discover a hidden underground world.
Face your fears and build confidence like never before. Our hardest trips can be a real challenge, and conquering the mines is a real achievement.
An adventure of the mind: walk away having learned from expert historians and mine explorers alike.
Adrenaline junkies welcome: our longest trips are 6-7hrs and should satisfy both thrill seekers and historians alike!
To secure your experience – book today.
Why this experience is great for you
- Learn to abseil deep inside a Cornish Tin Mine!
- Don't look down! Scale heights and deep descents underground in West Cornwall.
- Traverse over deep chasms in a full through trip of our mine; daylight-to-daylight!
- See these ancient Cornish tin mines through the eyes of the miners who made them... by Candlelight!
- Suitable for adrenaline junkies and historians alike. You will be scared! You will be challenged! You will love it!
- Natures paint brush. Experience colourful chemistry like you've never seen before where the ancient tin miners found copper.
- Travel through time. Our journey will take you deep underground and through 500yrs of history, from the Tudors right through to the present day.
We are the only company to offer guided tours of abandoned Cornish tin mines. Now at last, you can experience the hidden side of Cornish mining only a precious few have ever seen. As ‘proper Cornish’ as Ross Poldark himself, top of your list of things to do in Cornwall should be taking an underground adventure with us.
At Cornwall Underground Adventures, your safety is our top priority. Explore for the first time with real Mine Explorers. You can enjoy your underground experience knowing that you are in safe hands.
Additional information
Equipment needed: Please wear suitable clothing, waterproofs, plenty of layers plus full change of clothes and a towel.
Weather: We run in all weathers besides persistent, heavy rain.
Parking: We park in the National Trust donations car park at Porth Nanven near St Just.
Food and Drink: Our trips run for a few hours, so you might work up quite an appetite! We won't eat during the session, but bring some food for afterwards. Otherwise, there are some good shops/restaurants in the town up the road. The nearest facilities are in the town, which is a 5 minute's drive away.
Location
To secure your experience – book today.