Last Saturday I went on another trip together with my local coordinator Stephanie and two other exchange students: Raed from Tunisia and Nick from Bangladesh. After spending the night at Stephanie’s farm in
Casey County we left in the morning for
Mammoth Cave close to
Glasgow, KY, which is a
United States National Park and the longest cave in the world, it is also a United Nations Natural Sanctuary and a truly interesting place to visit.
But before we got to the cave we had yet another highlight on our tour of Kentucky: We stopped in the little town of Hodgenville, Kentucky, where some 200 years ago, on February 12th 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm. Most people usually connect Illinois, or maybe Indiana with Lincoln, however, he was a Kentucky native and is supposed to have said once: “I, too, am a Kentuckian.” So of course, as visitors to Kentucky, we had hardly any other choice then to visit his memorial in now La Rue County. The memorial was constructed in the early 1900s and features a rebuilt Log Cabin enclosed by a monumental temple similar to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
After exploring the memorial and this impressing historical experience in blistering hot May sun we moved on to Mammoth Cave (thankfully we had AC at 86 degrees). The cave is a major visiting spot for tourists from places as far as China and India and when we got there the area was already quit crowded. Yet, despite our large sized group we had a pleasing tour through the cave which was especially welcome to us since the temperature inside the cave was some 30 degrees lower than on the outside.
After touring the cave we wandered around the outskirts of the Mammoth Cave National Park for a bit to get back warmed up, then we started back home for Lexington ending our day trip with a delicious – and nutritious- dinner at Rafferty’s.
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