JC arrived back in Beirut by 9:30am, so the 5 Brits piled into the hire car and headed for the village of Hrajel to visit the cave Nabaa el Mghara, which Issaam told us was easy to find and close to the road.
We found the correct road and after asking a couple of locals we found the cave entrance but it was gated and locked. After a quick phone call to Hadi, he told us that there was another entrance higher up that you could use to climb down into the cave. We set off on the hillside looking for this second entrance. Whilst searching the hillside a local man came up to us and was talking in Arabic to us and pointing up the hill. Again, with Hadi as our phone interpreter, we learnt that there was another cave higher up.
JC, Rick and Steve went into Nabaa el Mghara whilst EP and MC went loking for the new cave. The entrance was discovered and we went in to explore and photograph. The cave had seen a lot of local traffic and there was a lot of graffiti on the walls and old torches on the floor.
On our return to Beirut we described the location of the new cave but the Lebanese cavers did not recognise our description - a new cave for SCL?
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