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- The thrill of Caving and Cave Diving

Caving and Trekking into to dark of limestone cathedrals deep in the mountains is some kind of adventure travel, there are plenty of caves to be explored in the mountains and underwater, this real thrill seeker probably go cave diving, but this needs scuba diving gear and a good knowledge where you move into, otherwise the caving tour will never end since no way back. Plenty of caves can be be found in almost every country of the world. Most caves are limestone caves where the water formed spectacular cathedrals with myriads of stalactites and stalagmites. Great caving destinations are the limestone caves in the Alps, in Thailand and other destinations. If there is a spectacular cave somewhere it is usually possible to do a cave tour and take out the possibility that something negative happen.

One of such a visually spectacular caving tour is through the cave system of the so called "Coffin Cave" in northern Thailand at Soppong, close at the road from Mae Hong Son to Pai. It’s great caving through a huge labyrinth in a limestone mountain where the river runs through the cave system and we move through by spectacular cave trekking and with the bamboo raft. The name coffin cave came after the people found dozens of coffin like wooden containers. Actually to me it rather looks like some canoes since they are about 3 to meters long and there are no people of this size.

If you go guided caving it needs only minimal preparation since the guides usually use a trek where there is no much danger, but still having fun and excitement. Probably the most important is, take a good jacket with you because there are always strong cold air currents and use orderly shoes, no need to buy expensive walking gear just some sport shoes since the floor of a cave can get very slippery and who wants to get the bat droppings covering the floor for maybe around 20 cm onto the skin. The most attractive caving is when there is a combination of cave climbing, trekking and rafting as it is shown at the caving pictures below.

Thailand Cave

Caving is mostly a casual trip to explore some great caves, for more sophisticated caving you better get a waterproof suit, helmets and lamps and some other gear such as a metal ladder and maybe some Nordic Walking Poles etc.

In the "Coffin Cave" is the usual underground architecture such as curtains of colored flowstone coating the walls, tiny pale needles of stalactites dripping from the roof. Breathtaking sights left and right opened up when the caving tour guide moved with the kerosene lamp. The main chamber is a vast cavern, around 30 meters high with spectacular long stalactites hanging from the top and wet stalagmites rising upwards.

Caving first took off in the 19th century and many cavers would break of stalactites to decorated their gardens. Luckily today responsible caving is the target, enjoy it, have fun and leave it for others also to enjoy.

Caves In Thailand

Caving Myanmar Style
Caving Myanmar Style

Cave pictures of bamboo rafting

Caving by Kayak

Boat Caving at Krabi

- Cave Diving

The limestone caves of Yucatan peninsular in Mexico once functioned as places of worship of the Maya. Today they are a great environ for cave diving, jumps into deep darkness. a natural monument full of mystery, the ideal destination for diving vacation and spectacular scuba trips.

Once per day, the sun breaks through holes in the ceiling of the caves and brings light into the underworld, that’s the time for cave jumps and cave diving, actually this is somehow a variant of extreme diving.

With the scuba diving gear at the back gliding through caverns, passing stalactites and through narrow tunnels that seem to never end. At this cave dive white dots move around the dive light which are tiny crustaceans looking like snowflakes. Two oxygen bottles are fixed on the just in case something happen. If you dive in the sea its easily to return quickly to the surface in case something

Cave Diving

Cave Dive

goes wrong, in a cave, however it become a prison with a death end. At this cave dive destinations a surrealistic panorama of 360 degree with limestone rocks is around, don't touch the ground, because when the fine powdered sediment are stirred up, the visibility will be zero within a few seconds be obscured in seconds and the orientation lost. If something serious happen during a cave diving trip it quickly could end fatal.

The limestone caves of Yucatan deep down under the surface of the the Mexican peninsula form the largest continuous underwater cave system in the world. The longest dive path is 180 kilometers across.

Over millions of years rain and water currents formed the stone, washed away the surface of the limestone and formed channels and .

caverns. Empty and hollow, the bottom frequently cracked forming deep craters in the rain forest. Yucatan is a land mass like a sponge. About 3000 of these craters are know they call them cenotes and are the environ for a spectacular cave dive, it wont even need some special scuba gear except taking a spare scuba tanks with onto the trip.

The Yucatan peninsula is like a giant tongue that stretches into the Gulf of Mexico, also know as the Riviera of Central America. On the beaches dive schools promote "open water diving" in the sea with coral reef, just a few minutes by boat off the beach. But the real thrill starts in forest. The dive instructor has loaded not only wet suits, regulators and oxygen tanks onto the pick up but also climbing ropes and other climbing gear. Diving in the caves needs first to descend about ten or twenty meters until reaching the water surface. Inexperienced cave divers only dive around 50 maybe 100 meters into the darkness, not more since after it

Cave Dive

becomes too dangerous because the orientation can be lost quickly.

At the walls of the caves are small tiny floating creatures and crawling critters living in seclusion, hidden around the rocks. Occasionally some blind fish are moving around like shapeless embryos. In the limestone caves of Yucatan dozens of peculiar species are living a ideal environment for great cave diving.

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