The Chinese Hole is a deep, vertical cave set in a karst landscape in the settlement of Ofra, northeast of Jerusalem. The infiltration of rainwater causes limestone and dolomite rocks to melt, creating a natural vertical space.
When discovered by explorers from the Israel Cave Research Center in the 1980s, it wasn’t clear how deep the cave went, and they joked it must go all the way to China. Now it is known that it reaches a depth of 60 meters. There are a series of metal steps and ladders inside the cave.
The final part of the descent is on iron ladders. The first ladder is about 20 meters high, and the second one is about 30 meters. In between the two, there is a platform where you can observe a nearby crevice filled with stalactites.
