Leaving Elephant Cave we cross a man made log bridge then we are walking through muddy fields and pastures to our next destination. With fresh air and clear skies, I don't mind occasionally slipping in a cool mud hole.
Fortunate for us, we have a local guide with us because our carefree hiking may have stumbled us into a "sting operation". Thanks to his advance warning, we avoid a possible temporary change in identity as he navigates us around a massive active beehive.
A huge money transaction ($20,000) and we are equipped to venture into one of the dark sides of being in Laos. After climbing a set of stairs, we are given fair warning of what lies ahead.
Wearing just sandals that limits my ability to run, I am both nervous and excited as we descend into the abyss of Cave Loup.
Video: http://youtu.be/h0pkaxoYr1k
Laos, Cave Loup (Tham Loup)
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The Music of The Cave
One of the advantage of having local tour guides is the benefit of their knowledge of things you would not think about. This knowledge does not have to be of a serious nature like knowing the location of a beehive or preventing me from falling down a thirty feet deep hole.
Sometimes this knowledge can just be about having fun.
Although I have visited a few other caves around the world, I never knew or experience the joy of playing a stalagmite. It is almost like being in a “Light Metal” Rock Band.
Stalagmite On, Dude!
Video:http://youtu.be/U3l1npIHiuE
Neato! (but give me a cave with lighting so I don't have to wear the headgear!!) I also don't mind climbing steps and using prepared pathways instead of walking on the bare rock...
I've experienced the mud puddles first hand. Give me a pathway please...!!
simpsonc510,
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I almost feel the same way you do about the caves and lighting but fumbling in the dark made it a cool experience.
Have you been in "Heaven's Cave" in Halong Bay? You would love the lighting there. Will have a video when I get to posting about Vietnam.
Having lost my sandals at the beginning of the cave, I came out of there with my feet covered in red mud and feeling like a real caveman.