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| Waterfall cave |
Run by an Australian who has lived in the area for over 30 years, self proclaimed caver, archaeologist, kayak and trekking guide...anything was possible at Cave Lodge. Everyday he drew us a sketch map of a new cave to explore, a prehistoric rock shelter, cave paintings, a water fall, 2000 year old teak coffins...For three days we, and our Auzie friend Aaron followed these maps, trudging through the jungle sometimes on our own, sometimes with a local guide for help. What we found was amazing...
February 5th Our fist day we had an organized tour to fossil cave, about a 700m walk through a cave with stunning formations made from limestone with invertebrate fossils in the rock. Then on to waterfall cave where we followed a stream flowing into the cave. In places we had to crawl through the water on all fours, the water up to our necks and the ceiling just above our heads...tight! about 400m in the stream falls over the edge into a cavern about 30m bellow and we could go no farther. Of course the owner of the lodge has repelled down it to explore the cavern bellow! The final cave we visited that day was called Christmas cave (not sure why) an open cavern with amazing flowstone formations and a calcified spider!
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| Christmas Cave |
