We decided today to go on a trekking/caving tour with Green Discovery, a eco-tourism company. The trip was described as an easy trek and caving, but we were more than pleased to find out that it was alot more adventurous than it sounded.
The trek was easy enough, but the caving was…well, caving. We were given these janky head-lamps that were nothing more than flightlight heads attatched to giant batteries. The caves themselves had no footpaths, no electricity, none of that stuff you normally see in caves. Instead we had to clamber over rocks, slip down muddy paths, and very carefully make sure we didn’t fall into any gaping holes. It was scary as hell and a lot of fun. One of the caves we went to had a river in it so we lay in tubes and pulled ourselves along with a rope. I got scared when my headlamp started dying, luckily our guide Vath saved me before I got eaten by the darkness.
Our guide Vath, me, and Hugh wearing dodgy "waterproof headlamps" after river caving
One of the highlights was when Hugh spotted a pomelo (kinda like a giant orange/grapefuit) on the ground. Our guide was all, “You wanna eat it?” and grabbed one, then hacked it open with a machete. We sat around having a conversation, and offered the caretaker of the caves some of the fruit. He passed and explained that he could eat them whenever he wanted, just pick them up and grinned with a toothless smile. It was a great way to have a break after just climbing hand over hand out of a slimey cave.
I love this country.
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