Upside Down

Images upside down? Sounds strange. Should be easy to see if an image is upside down or not. But it seems it is not too easy on cave pages! I do not really know why, but I think, it is because the webmasters have no idea about caves. Should be easy to see the difference between stalactites and stalagmites... if you know what the difference is.

When I first found images which were upside down, I wrote an email to the page owners. The normal reaction was to ignore me. Some of them insulted me, and some were absolutely sure the image belonged this way and tried to persuade me of this. But I still believe, soda straws hang down from the ceiling!

Thinking about this a second time, I saw that my reaction was wrong. Upside down images are actually quite funny! At least for the one who knows that they are upside down. So I made this page to collect upside down pictures of caves. And no: it is not a pillory!

Quite interesting: while I do not think that my page has much influence on stupid photographers, and also I am not sure those guys who published upside down pictures actually learned something. Nevertheless, there is the fact, that the number of such picture is now almost zero. I cant explain this, probably the idiots closed their sites after the WWW was not new any more? Probably those pictures were too poor in other aspects, and so they were replaced by better pictures? Whatever the reason, for some time we added new links and removed broken links, and at the end only a singe link remained. The tradition of publishing upside down cave image is obviously abandoned. But fortunately there is the Webarchive!

So if you want to see some examples use the links below. And if you also know a page like this, just send me the URL to

• Upside Down Links
• Zhejiang Scenery: Ruijing Cave (visited: 12-FEB-2025) They have numerous upside down pictures on various websites, it seems they are issued this way by the cave administration.
• Image of a cave on Costa Rica
• Fiesta De Las Cuevas, maybe they drank too much wine at the fiesta, so they saw the cave upside down. Its only a small picture at the last part of the page, dedicated to the Benifallet Caves.
• The Cave of Lakes, it’s the third picture.
• Dunmore Cave located in Ireland, the second or middle picture is upside down.
• Yuhua Cave’s unique Karst landform in Jiangle, Sanming, the main picture is upside down. Its titled "The amazing karst landscape in Yuhua Cave". Indeed.
• Xian Qi Cave Travel Guide. Best China Travel Guide (visited: 01-FEB-2012) A small gallery and the first is upside down. And of poor quality too.
• Grutas de Alvados (visited: 20-MAY-2025)