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map of the cavern
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ready to enter... sweltering in our jumpsuits
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Enrique looks nervous
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19th century graffiti (mostly names and dates)
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the entrance to the "womb room" is a narrow tube
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I preferred to enter feet-first
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NO, don't fart in the womb room!
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admiring the strange formations
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occasionally we had to crawl or slither
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starting to get muddy
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which way is up?
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stalactites
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ropes and platforms helped us through some tricky spots
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using a rope to avoid wading through waist-deep water
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skeleton sculpted out of mud
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handy raft to traverse small underground lake
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Philippe preferred to swim
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emerging from the lake, temporarily clean-ish
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heading back to the surface
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Braden endorses mud-slithering
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this frog near the surface was the only life we saw
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made it
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ready for the showers