Em, Mike and Dave headed northwards through Tripoli to explore some caves we had not visited previously. Due to the poor road maps, we found ourselves getting very lost but help was soon provided by some friendly Lebanese in the town of Kousba. They told us about a nearby cave and we set off up to a monastry, following the signs explaining the strict clothing etiquette and vows of silence. Once we arrived, we could see no monks to seek permission and headed to Saint Hamatoora Cave which was guarded by a mule. We only checked out the entrance in which time the mule charged at Mike so we headed back to the monastry to get permission, only to be ushered into a service (by a workman) for the monks in Arabic!
In the afternoon, we attemped to find Zahlan Cave in Sir ed Danniye. Several hours later, having spoken to almost everyone in the village we gave up. Aside from the poor road maps, detailed maps are not available, the LMT map showed the cave and place names incorrectly, any available grid references are in Lambert which is not available on our GPS, and no one in the village spoke English (when we were understood everyone sent us in different directions) .... things were against us!
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