Day 71 Thursday 26/11/09

It was time to visit the Green Mountains. We had a GPS location and a description of a cave that had not been descended to the bottom near Takinis. Upon finding the cave it sounded like it was full of pigeons. We went back to the vehicles to sort out the caving kit but the house owner came over and told us that we could not go down the cave.

We continued to an area near the village of Battah, where there was a report of 11 dolines that had not been looked at before. In the village we caused quite a stir with the locals but none of them seemed to know where any were.

Driving on, we drove to find some large dolines near Qsar Libya. After a little searching we found the location of the farm near the dolines. A local offered to show us the holes and we set off following his pick-up. The dolines were impressive holes in the ground, but we had reports that they had been descended in the past and had no cave passage at the bottom.

We found a campsite at the start of Wadi Kuf, where we planned to explore the next day.