We went to Kampong Poi dam and turned right and followed the lake, turning left at the end, and going to the wat at the foot of the hill, For 2 hot and sweaty days, 2 monks took us to caves.
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broken exhaust |
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drink for cavers!! |
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cycad |
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grasshopper |
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charcoal
rock shelter cave |
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chert |
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interesting formation |
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Naga steps |
Some of the caves had trees or just poles which the locals used to get down and up. Needless to say none of us cavers dared to do this.
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how to descend |
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coming up again |
In Buddha Cave, young monks watched us -
millipedes
cricket
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village shop |
On the second day we saw many entances but most of them were shafts so we couldn't enter. This shaft is 10 m deep -
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one man down |
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2 men down |
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3 men down |
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4 men down |
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all inside |
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chert |
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going back up |
Next shaft -
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monk uses this tree to climb down |
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this one uses an old branch |
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coming back up |
Calcite that has been collected -
The lake was built by the Khmer Rouge and is now used to irrigate the rice fields -
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someone's lunch |
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lotus heads |
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irrigation canal |
There are 6 more albums on the Battambang caves and 1 on cave fauna
Caves 1 phnom sampeu and
Caves 2 Sdao area and
Caves 3 crocodile hill area , and
Caves 4 kampong poi area and
Caves 5 phnom kdaong and
Caves 6 Banan area and also
Cambodia cave fauna .
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© Liz Price
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Liz, Cambodian also called village as "kampong"?
ReplyDeleteNo, in Khmer language, Kampong means port or a place for washing by the river, so it doesn't mean village as it does in Malay.
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