The plughole cave

The Nettle cave had 476 steps

The imperial cave had 258 steps It is considered the easiest 

The plughole cave has an age minimum of 10 year old

but no maximum,they told us we should be fine.

I did not tell them that I was a bit claustrophobic 

on top of not being to keen on height.

Also they only take 12 people, we were only 6

plus 2 guides.

We thought that they were trying to sensationalize

the difficulty of the tour

First we had to abseil down a big hole.

It was not too bad, so Claude said to me:

"It should be easy, a piece of cake,

they just exaggerate it ".

But soon we changed our mind.

What an adventure, we had to crawl into

narrow opening, squeeze through hole.

Climb and slide over rocks

and the scariest for me was going  through

a long S bend tunnel. My body

was just fitting through, you could not crawl 

you had to wriggle your way.

All that with only the light on you helmet.

If I had been a couple of kilo heavier I

could not have done it. I got so scare of being 

stuck in the middle.

I am very glad I done it but NEVER AGAIN.

Photos taken by our guide

I was just squeezing out of a passage saying:

"I am going to kill him" (Christopher)

it took us 2.25 hours

We were all the time in the dark with only 

our headlamp to light the way.

Happy 70 th  birthday Claude from your son Christopher

(I don't think Tina would have done that to me!!)