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We headed to the Lost Sea first. The Lost Sea is the 2nd biggest cave lake in the world. The tour of the cave is excellent and the cave itself has 50 percent of the entire worlds collection of cave flowers. The tour works its way down to the lake and we got to take a boat ride on the lake itself. We saw tons of rainbow trout. I had no idea they could live in a cave lake, but then we were told that the fishing department actually put the trout in the lake to find out if they can find their way out. They couldn’t, so they’ve never been removed. They actually restock the lake periodically to keep the tourist happy. The Lost Sea is a private cave, which I could see the big difference compared to the states national park caves. Plus, the tours there aren’t as good and they weren’t eco-friendly.

After the tour, we headed about an 4 hours and a half south to Atlanta. Atlanta has a loop road just like the M25. As we approached we got caught in a huge traffic jam. We worked our way through the jam and managed to find one of the luxury Atlanta hotels and booked a room for the night. After we took a quick nap, we headed into the city center. We stopped at the CNN building for a quided tour, at that tour was good too. They told us all about the news-gathering process and showed us the green screen technology, plus they actually let us see an actual news cast in the main studio! Then after the news cast, which was a half-an-hour, we were told about all the sections of CNN’s newscasts, like CNN International, CNN Espanol and Headline News. We even learned about the history of the building itself. It was originally an indoor theme park.

After CNN, we headed out to see the Cyclorama. It’s a turn of the century circus that went bankrupt and the state had to take it over. First the state turned it into a city zoo and then they built on the Cyclorama, it houses a huge panoramic oil painting. We sat down and the auditorium begins to rotate within the building showing some amazing Civil War paintings. Then they build a diorama at the base, which only adds to the whole experience. This whole tour tired us out, so we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the Cyclorama and headed back to our hotel for the evening.

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