Borra Caves

Borra guhalu (Caves) get their name from an accumulation central the cave that looks like the human brain, which in the bounded language, Telugu, is accepted as borra. Borra caves is awful acclaimed for its adorable stalactite and stalagmite formations and is amid at 1400 beat aloft sea akin in anantagiri breadth of Visakhapatnam
One-million-year-old Borra Caves advance over the Eastern Ghats and application and breadth of two aboveboard kilometers. The Borra caves are breathtakingly admirable and the accustomed accumulation of these caves is additionally unique. The limestone caves were formed as a aftereffect of the activity of the Gosthani river. The river which now flows through the caves was already aloft a time abounding over the limestone area. The caves were formed due to the burden exerted by the river baptize on the mineral deposits, the adhesive stones attenuated and gradually. It was a two-way process. The attenuated limestone trickled bottom ward bead by bead on the attic of the cave. These coalesce to anatomy the anyhow shaped stalagmites.
According legend, the cowherd came beyond the caves while analytic for the cow, agriculture on the top of the caves, fell bottom ward sixty meters, through a aperture in the roof. There is additionally a stalagmite central the cavern that resembles a Lingam and abounding bodies army to the cavern to get a glimpse of it.
Inside the caves there are several absorbing structures. Mushroom formation, a temple, a mosque, an abbey and abounding added accord to the abode beauty. There are traces of yellow-colored sulphur deposits on the arena Along with the calcium deposits, Abounding amid the caked stalagmites and stalactites is the Gosthani River which active appear Orissa, already out of the caves.

Inhabited by tribal’s surrounding the absolute arena Borra caves have astronomic religious significance. The autogenously of the caves fabricated bright and amazing by sixty-three lamps of mercury, sodium breath and halogen lamps which accomplish the Borra caves are blithely illuminated.
There are mica mines in and about Borra apple and it is believed that there are immense possibilities of mining adored stones like rubies here. A big activity accepted as the Thalipudi Reservoir arrangement is actuality complete at amount of Rs 4.5 core beyond the river Gosthani at Thalipudi.
Situated at about 90 Kms from the City by road, Borra caves at the Anantagiri Mandal are one of the best places to appointment in Vizag. The Caves are aloof 29 Km on alley from Araku Valley.