Thursday 18/02/10

The plan was to find another cave from Martin’s list, although this cave only had a village name and national park but no GPS reference. It took a bit of driving and asking various policemen but we eventually found the right area, but in a different national park to the one on Martin’s list. There was a visitors' centre in a national park office but when we enquired about the cave we were told that it was closed because it was too dangerous! The man in the office would not tell us exactly where the cave was, so we had to go for another drive around!

We found a cave nearby in the village which we believed was the one we were looking for and got a GPS fix and photograph of the entrance. The cave did not, however, match the brief description supplied. We do not know if we found the right cave – or another one.

On the drive back to town we stopped at a cave that was signed from the main road (Dawadong). We thought we would get a GPS fix on this one, just in case it was missing from the database. On the walk up a mud track to the cave a man on a moped stopped and told us both to climb on the back to go to the cave - we had found a cave guide. We had a tour of four chambers in this cave by lantern light. We then had the hair raising trip back down the path on the moped to the car.