Day four, We had proven our map reading, jungle forging skills and were excited and happy to receive our next 'assignment'... a through cave to a rock shelter, teak coffins, and a neolithic burial site! Nothing could stop us now! The cave was called red rock, easily visible from the road. We hesitantly entered the cave...none of us having explored caves on our own before. We had to duck low to get in, fallowing a stream through the length of the cave. It imediatley opened up into a large chamber filled with stalagtights sparkling from the light of our head lamps on the millions of water droplets clinging to the moss that covered them...it looked like gold! And the eyes...eyes everywhere...little frogs adorned the walls next to the opening, and farther in the spiders eyes always catching the light of our headlamps...creepy and cool!
We progressed slowly... I think we were all a bit apprehensive. The cave was easy to follow 'user friendly' as he called it because all we had to do was follow the stream that ran the whole length of the cave. We were forewarned that there would be one spot where we would have to get on all fours in the stream, and it would be tight...we thought we could handle it but little did we know it was 10-15 m long! That's over 30ft of crawling through a very narrow tunnel with barley enough room to have our mouths out of the water without our heads hitting the ceiling! Needless to say we didn't make it through, but what an adventure! Latter that night he commiserated with us saying 'ya that's a scary bit, can barley make it through'...thanks for telling us that now! We hadn't lost our credibility though cause he already had an 'assignment' for us for the morrow...however we had to leave because our visas were about to expire and we had to get across the border to Cambodia...
We did catch the sunrise the next morning...
