Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Caving Adventure...


....which was much harder than I expected.  I pictured us strolling through the woods, walking into 30 ft caverns, taking pictures of stalactites.  Instead, we hiked through the jungle, bellycrawled through 3ft holes, got scratched up by jagged edges of rocks, pulled ourselves up and over 5 ft boulders, and generally got the snot beat out of us.  Just for context, the guy from Man vs Wild spent a week in this park, so it's not for sissies. While I feel like a total badass for finishing, this is not a Panama experience that I need to repeat.  

gorgeous, but intimidating

in many of the caves, cockroaches the size of oranges were hanging out everywhere.  And the passage through the cave was very skinny, so it took a lot of shimmying to make it though the cave without touching any huge cockroaches.

It's hard to tell, but all of those little black spots are bats.  There were so many bats in these caves, and although  I definitely screeched the first time one of them dive-bombed me, they were pretty cool 

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