Mønsted Kalkgruber - Limestone Mine close to Viborg, Denmark
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- During our tour of Jutland, we spend a day at the Mønsted Kalkgruber limestone mine. It is a massive complex with a fun history. It is also the home to thousands of bats! We learn a ton about its history and we explore the mine. Join us!
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You guys must be the worlds best travelling guides to Denmark. Tak skal I have.👍
Thanks, we are trying our best :).
So enjoyed this. It might be time to revisit Mønsted Kalkgrupper. Miranda, you should have your own channel where you interview people. You are awesome at that 👏
Denmark looks beautiful.
If you're into flat plains i guess. Color variation is kind of nice in some areas of copenhagens buildings though.
65 year Old Dane …. I have explored DK with parents and own kids forever…there is no way, I will ever see all that I want, be it buildings, landscape or cultural heritage….you are doing far better than most….wish you enjoyed our little beautiful culture rich country for as long as possible, letting us enjoy your take on things….it is truly interesting……
Found this little jewel, super nice, thank you for sharing!!
It's a great place! Sometimes they have classical music concerts inside the place. It's some crazy acoustics, so if you're ever in the neighborhood you might check if they have one of those events.
I think it is called "Cold Hawaii" a smaller, but interesting version of the huge waves of
Hawaii.
6:19 Love that little Star Trek reference you did, Miranda, Lirpa moves and all :D, also the rest of the video was great too, as usual :)
Visited last week. Also visited Daugbjerg kalkgruber. A very different experience.
Mønsted Kalkgrube, such an amazing place! NEXT vacation, Mariager Saltdiapir!! in Hvornum or Læsø Saltsyderi (which is best in the summer)
Proposing or gladiators..I'd vote for music, bc the acoustics are just, wow!
- although modern music might make too many reverberations??
maybe classical, would be a better choice?
I love Viborg, a city with quaint atmosphere! and the nature surrounding it, is beautiful too
hello from Hundested 🌸 🌱
Kalkgruberne IS pretty impressive. When I was invited by my friend and her mother tosee them I was like "m-yeah I guess it could be fun"... and it just blew me away.
You have to go to know!
Next summer, you guys gotta visit some of the summer amusement parks such as Fårup Sommerland and Djurs Sommerland. I promise, you will love it!
We visited that place in our summer holiday. Lovely place!
Mønsted was probably my fiercest culture shock within Denmark, moving from Central Copenhagen to Viborg. Complete 180 with Techno-blasting scooters, "HalBal (barnbal)", tractor pulling and all that belongs to Mid-Jutlandish provincial life
Edit: Also, this scary game, was it Until Dawn or maybe Firewatch? :-]
I live in northern jutland. No one got licenses for scooters, but instead they had licenses to drive tractors, and by default they could then drive scooters 😅
So happy to know that that Miranda is a fellow bat lover ;)
I love them all! Even the "ugly" ones! (they're still cute to me!)
@@TravelinYoung
They are truely wounderfull creatters :P
I'm actuelly trying to find a way to have bat houses put up defrendt places in Århus as a pest control.
Im not surten that the county will alew it but i do wonna try..
Thy in the winter, and then go out to the sea in december. It's just amazing :) any season actually. My birthplace! Love it
But I guess it's the place in Denmark with most cold winds! Summer time would be better 🌀❄️
@@davidpax baah, don't matter :D wear appropriate clothing is all ;)
At this point I think you guys have seen 10 times as much of Denmark than I have :D
Haha, and we’ve only just started :).
Haha yeah the nice cool temperature and the bats is something I remember very well
Yes! We made in the final vertion! 😁 🙌
I worked on the restoration about 20 years ago. It was only for a few weeks, but it was during the winter so I used the cave to warm up. The temperature is quite consistent all year around, so it's nice place to go at any time.
Next time you visit the area, try Dollerup bakker it's really cool and you can see the remaining features from the ice age carved in the hills.
BTW I love bats too..
You're really putting alot of danes to shame. I bet you've seen more places in Denmark than 90% or all danes but on the other hand you're great inspiration to get out there visit alot of these places in the next holiday (Efterårsferien)
Ha we are trying to see as much as we can! I do hope we inspire folks to enjoy more of Denmark. We’ve had a lot of fun!
So cool to see you visiting Mønsted at Viborg.
I’m living in Viborg, so if you ever come to Viborg again, I’ll like to show you the city if need some “local culture” 😊
That was interesting. I’ve never heard of this mine or the bats. Thanks ☺️
Actually only a walk away (I visited both some years ago) there´s another chalk mine, I think mostly known as hiding place for a gang of local robbers, who got punished after being caugth, many years ago. But during my many years of long distance walking in Belgium, we often met bats flying round the lampposts during nights, and I also did get a plan for making a house for the bats in Mønsted. Sadly I never got to actually making a home for them.
You guys are the greatest ! You have really embraced the Danish way of living. At first I thought you were only interested in Copenhagen, but you have traveled to all parts of Denmark, small towns and islands and remote locations. Amazing. You should have some of the local residents teach you how to pronounce names of local sites i Danish, and trust me, I know how difficult the vowels are to foreigners. Keep up the good work, and make more videos. Cheers !
Thanks! We were patiently waiting to be able to get out more post covid. Copenhagen is easy cause it is next to our home, but we are so glad we’ve been able to finally see more of Denmark!
So Nice ☺️ next time you visit Viborg you should visit Viborg bryghus and eat at Brygger Bauers grotter👌 Brygger Bauer has a VERY intresting history
Another great video. Thanks for all your exciting videos and positive energy in all of them (even the one about parking tickets:-) ) keep ‘em coming!
Haha, thanks! We’ve got a lot planned over the next couple months so stay tuned :).
@@TravelinYoung i Will :-) looking forward to it.
I love that place!!
Your family really are good ambasadors for seing more than just Copenhagen.
Thanks, we are trying our best to get out and about :).
YES Bats are awesome!
I remember the temperature difference of the mines to well 😅 its really quite a shift.
P.s I vote for gladiator fight as well!
There is also Daugbjerg Kalkminer.
Wonderful guys. You are great story tellers and great advocates for Denmark.
Have you been to Rudolh Tegner Museum and statue park at Dronningemølle in the northern Zealand?
The statue park is free and it kind of reminds me of a landscape in Jylland. The museum is inside a big concrete building. It's a lovely place to visit and even quite close to Lyngby. Find a nice day in a weekend. I believe a nice sunny Autumn day would be lovely. The museum closes for the Winther at October 24 so there is still some weekends to to consider this year.
Thanks! We have and we did a video about it earlier this year :). It is a great place, we enjoyed it!
@@TravelinYoung Thanks! I just saw the video and you guys did a great job there as well. I must admit that I did not search for it (or just walk through the video titles). I took a chance which obviously was a bad idea. Sorry ;-)
When I visited Mønsted Kalkgruber as a child there were copies of classical statues in some of the caves........and I'm a bit saddened by the fact that you didn't mention that some of the caves are used to mature a certain kind of cheese called Grubeost - you would be able to peek into the storage. The area where they keep the cheese was the area painted yellow on the map you looked at when entering. Besides that, it was interesting to hear about this place from a foreigner's perspective (loved the Zelda reference btw XD) and I like the fact that you take the time to visit places in Denmark that to my knowledge seem to be lesser-known among foreigners.
If you're into naval history I would recommend visiting Strandingsmuseum St George in Thorsminde (West Jutland) - they apparently have the largest collection in the world of everyday items used by the British navy in the 19th century.
Yeah we never got that far in the caves. I tend to get distracted by taking video and lose track of time and location in the caves. We didn’t mention mostly because we didn’t see it so it passed our minds when we were talking later.
It was a fun place to visit though and a great day during our holiday in Jylland.
I've been waiting for this since you mentioned it. Went there as a kid and found it so impressive with the bats... Also got some good cheese from there.
Edit: when I was a kid, I once found a small bat in some bushes, but I had always been warned how they may have rabies, so had to go get gloves.. anyway after a bit of water it was ready to fly again, so it all ended well.
Have you guys ever been to Valby, København. It's quite the leap from Mønsted, but it is an old worker livelihood of Copenhagen with a lot of history. I believe you've visited Carlsberg Bryggeri which is there, but the history surrounding Valby itself has some deep cultural roots in our society and is also the home to Nordisk Film which among many other things also produced the "Olsen Banden" movies which are considered an enormous part of our media (tv/movie) history. There is "Valby Lokalhistorisk informations center" quite close to Nordisk film Studie, if you want someone to give you an indepth look into the local history of Valby. It is also quite possible that you can get a tour of Nordisk film while you're there.
You should visit Ribe 3000+ year old town oldest in all of scandinavia former danish capital with the story of queen Dagmar
Yep, it is on our list!
I love the gamer knowledge dropped in the video. Cred given. :)
That thingy in the middle of the room was used in one of our Christmas calendars (Christmas movie/serie)
BTW. They used to turn the cheese down there 😅 I'm not sure if they still do that though
Mad respect to Maya for referencing the Atari E.T. game from 1982!
Been there today.
I love bats 😁. We had bats in our garden when I still lived in a house and it was nice sitting outside in the evening watching them catch insects. But my favorite experience was watching 450,000 bats leave their home in Carlsbad Caverns, NM to hunt for food.
Im so jealous you've gotten to go to Carlsbad! I want to go there and Bracken Cave. They flyouts at both look amazing. Getting to see the flying foxes fly out in Port Douglas Australia was a bucket list though! I was so excited to see them fly over our air bnb! - M
@@TravelinYoung Unfortunately I have no photos from Carlsbad as use of cameras and electronic devices are prohibited, but it was a great sight. On my next visif only a few hundred bats left the cave, as the park ranger explained, they had been "on strike" for a few days. I have also visited Bat Cave in North Carolina, but herd you ars not allowed to enter the cave. Btw did you visit the cheese storage in Mønsted?
"Batwoman Returns" - soon in a cinema near you 😂
Used to nightfish for crawfish during the summerholiday when I was a kid, and bats would fly aournd the lakes we went to. When we got boored we'd catch them but throwing a hat in the air and they'd mistake it for prey I geuss and get caught in them when the fell down. Never killed them, just a way to waste time when we were boored. I guess I gave away that I'm old^^
VisitDenmark should use you guys in their promotion.
I’d love that. Visit Denmark if you are listening, reach out :).
Come to 8444 Balle, an look at all the Gravel pit’s 😆👌🏻 love your video’s ☕️👌🏻
You really should see cisternerne on Frederiksberg...!🤗
Oh it is cool! I went before we had the channel when some friends were visiting. The exhibition at that time was remarkable. Super cool!
Okay, yeah it really is amazing that exhibition😊🤘
you need to read up on these guided tours ;)
you did notmention the cinema theater down there and the enourmes cheese storage where they mature the "grubeost", and the concert auditorium, and the 60 km worth of tunnels, it is the largest in europe, i know only 4 km of tunnels are used for the walk, but next time you should take the train tour :)
aaaanyhooo.. i love your trips outside copenhagen... keep them coming *thumbs up*
Hi :) There is also a great Limestone Mine near Rebild...... Thingbæk Kalkminer ...... where there is some statues and special a big statue of the big bull as to be seen in Aalborg. In this mine they do also have small music koncerts and events though the year. :)
Btw... I do play a game called Minecraft, and the mines in this game is more scary than the ones in real life. :)
Love the music very 80's. Who are we listening to during your tour in the mines?
Next time you're in the Viborg/Randers/Hobro area, consider visiting Klejtrup Sø with the world map ;)
Uh - Kolding is not "Sønderjylland" - it's "Sydjylland". Sønderjylland goes from Germany to the "Kongeå". I suppose that they often make classical music arrangement in Mønsted Kalkgruber and that should be spetacular.
We do have Flying Foxes in Denmark as well, BIG ones, you should've tried going to Randers Regnskov(Randers Rainforest) when you were there... 🙂
Oh we did! Miranda stood with the bats flying around her for a while :).
@@TravelinYoung I wish you would've included that in the video buddy😁..
It's a great place, I love it there..
Have you been to Knuthenborg safari park?🙂
@@Madsen-by1hy we did, in the Randers video.
@@TravelinYoung Dang it, I've missed that one, I'm usually a first on viewer😂
Well you can't win all the time 🤷 🙄 😂
Ha no worries. Also to answer the other question, we have been to the safari park. But….that was before we started the channel so we don’t have any video. We plan to go back at some point.
I believe I went there as a kid (some 50 yrs ago 😀 ). VERY impressive !! Correct me if I'm wrong (anyone). Didn't they use to store cheese there!?
They still do, we just didn’t make it that deep into the cave and thus forgot to mention it.
Could you smell it though 😁???
I may not have been older than 5 back then, but I remember this GYNORMOUS stock of cheese. Funny what tends to stick, while at same time I couldn't tell you what I ate yesterday 😄 ! God Søndag til jer alle 👍😀👍 PS: Actually I had a really good Beef Tenderloin steak @Floras Steakhouse 👍, "after Ternet Ninja 2" 👍😍👍
You did not tell about the fact that the mine is also being used for storing cheese🤔
Have you seen Rebild?
did you ocme across the cheese storage?
na na na na na na - nature
It amazes me how many times Yanks say "super cool"
Learned it from my danish friends and colleagues :).
One of my dreams, is to visit Australia Zoo, I love animals! 😍
I’ve been at Samsø, it’s also very beautiful
The zoo in Sydney is fantastic. I hope you can see it one day!
@@TravelinYoung I’ve been a huge fan of the Irwin family forever, Steve Irwin was my hero as a kid
@@amaliemadeleine8296 Jeg besøgte Australia Zoo for 20 år siden. Tilfældigvis var Steve i parken den dag. Han fortalte og fodrede saltvandskrokodiller med den ene hånd mens han holdt lille Bindi på den anden arm. Herlig fyr 😊
@@twisterwiper Hvor lyder det fedt! Har altid været stor fan af ham, nu er jeg jo på alder med hans datter Bindi, hun virker skøn, ligesom resten af familien
Chicken of The Cave 🤣🤣
i remember,when i was there as a kid, there were caves with cheese, do not know if there still is,hehe
Cheese is still stored in the back part of the tunnels.
You mentioned that you love bats. You can build or buy a bat-house that you can hang up in your garden, like you would a bird-house.
Here’s a link to build one: www.naturfamilier.dk/naturoplevelser/byg-en-flagermuskasse/
It’s in danish, but if you use chrome you can use it’s translate function to translate it into English if needed.
The webpage is from Danmarks Naturfrednings Forening. Which is a nature conservation union in Denmark.
Just wondering. ....is a flying dog an bat ?
I believe flyvende hunde are called flying foxes in English. Yes, they are bats.
@@klausolekristiansen2960: x-actly, og der er også "fruit bats". ✌️
Now you nov soren the batman is living I viborg
I would say, a Gladitor fight, for the right to propose.
Oh well done! Combine the 2 :).
is it the one with the cheese? the churce in viborg is worth a visit.
there r two mines. we went to the smaller of them. they had a lightshow thing on the water it was very interresting.
daugbjerg is were we went.
u know that the big stone infront of the church is were the kings used to be elected
Hvad tænker I om, hvad der sker i Afghanistan?
Ikke en skid!!!!!!!!!!!
@@BigAndTall666 why not- hvorfor ikke?