Ceské Muzeum Stříbra, Bohemia, Czech Republic

5macedonboy 5:00 PM Oct 13, 2019

Enjoyable mine tour
I took the underground mine guided tour. The tour was conducted in English and despite the guides apologies about her English, I understood her just fine. The guide went in to a lot of detail about the history of mining in Kutna Hora, the equipment used and the lives of the miners. Then followed a tour down into what used to be one of the actual silver mines of Kutna Hora, back in it's heydays of mining. The safety precautions requires that we all wore hardhats with a light attached, plus overalls to protect our clothes. Personally I had a lot of fun going into the mines. The guide stops at points of interest and seeing the condition under which miners worked was very enlightening. At one point in the tour, everyone switched off their lights. In the pitch black, it made me really appreciate my office based jobs. A really enjoyable tour.

5Kessie J 5:00 PM Sep 12, 2022

Caves were awesome!
We went to explore Kutna Hora and I figured as a city built on silver, we HAD to go to the mining museum. We did not book ahead of time for an English tour and you cannot go on the tour without a guide into the caves. But we were offered a Czech tour with students but were given our own English guide to read along. However, Nicola was with us and spoke great English. She was very happy to answer our questions and offer information in English on the tour for us. She was personable and went out of her way to help us. We really appreciated her :) the mines are dark and wet, wear sneakers. I wore Birkenstocks and got a little wet but overall not bad! I wasn’t expecting to go into caves that day otherwise I would’ve prepared better. The caves can get very small and narrow. My husband is 6’1” and struggled a little when it got to a low height, but got through without any significant issues. The narrowest spot is 20 cm and we passed through without issue. Definitely not for anyone who is claustrophobic.