Day 64 Thursday 19/11/09

Time to hit the road again and this time we were heading to the karst area. We drove through Yefren and to the village of Bir Ayyad where Hussein asked for directions at the fuel station. They knew two of the three areas that EP had written down. Armed with this information, we headed to the old grain store of Qasr Abu an Niran, a fortified hill top grain store, as this is near the centre of the karst regions. We had a quick look round for caves and then headed to Wadi Fasat.

After a walk around, MC & EP locating on the of the connecting shafts, we followed the reeds up the dry streambed and found the entrance to this cave, Ain Wadi Fasat. The cave is 618m long and as JC went ahead locating other entrances, MC and EP took photographs. In the cave was a colony of long-eared bats, with their Bugs Bunny ears, waking up as it was getting dark. MC and EP progressed in the cave, admiring the marbled walls but stopped at a low damp crawl, whilst JC had exited one of the minor entrances to survey the other valley. As it was reasonably late, we headed back to meet Hussein who had a fire going and had prepared a pasta tea at our camp for the night.