Another cave on the “hit list” was Tham Men. This cave was visited by the B.E.C. in 1998, but not surveyed. It had some promising leads to follow up. When we got there it was a well developed show cave and when we asked if we could enter by ourselves to explore the further reaches of the cave, we were told this would not be possible. We explained that we wished to survey the cave and that our trip would take longer than usual! We were allowed to survey the cave, but only the show cave.
We spent around four hours in the cave which was impressive in size and had some stunning formations and surveyed what we could.
With still some daylight left, we decided to look for another cave on the list which was only a few miles away. To reach Tham Nam Lot required driving along a dirt road for a mile. As we drove along it started to rain and we didn’t want to get stuck if the road turned to mud, so once we had found the walking track to the cave, we headed back to town - once we had driven for a few miles we were out of the rain shower.
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