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Lynn in jeep
sitting on a magic carpet to get to start of trek 800m further up3rd may
A day of trekking and more caving but knarlier. We travelled up in the national park in a pick up with a mat of hessian i think, with two others Phillip and Johanne from Strasbourg. Forty minutes driving up to 800 metres in altitude and then a 2 km walk to the village to meet our guides. The village population is 100 and more dogs!, we were told to wait because i think our guide was working somewhere else ,he arrived very friendly and enthusiastic. In the middle of nowhere this felt unerving, however after an issue of caving helmets we all felt better, until we saw the gouges then we realised it could be a rocky trip. The walk was 40 mins through some burnt out areas before entering the teak forests on the way to the cave entrance. They,our guides/farmers, burn the areas for clearing and replanting with crops such as peanuts,chillies and watermellons.Once rested we spent a good hour in the network of caves which were not lit.One guide at the front with a cheap torch and the other cheap torch at the back. There was alot of scambling on all fours to get through very
Phillip,Joanne and Lynn
resting before cave entrance after 40 min walk,helmets at side low ceilings on ground which was a type of clay.Some of the gaps were so tight it was more like Potholing than caving, thank goodness we were told to leave our sacks back at the entrance.After returning to the village for a local lunch with cats and dogs we continued to trek up a valley to awaterfall then further on to a 2nd then 3rd village before being picked up.
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