Quite the adventure, it sounds like. I think it's amazing you can meet up with your friends after so long and pick up where you left off, reminiscing and having a good time. I'm kind of concerned about some of them already being dead. You all should be way too young for that kind of thing to be happening.
Slipping in a cave could do that to you, too, so thankfully you all managed to get out of there with just bruised egos.
A friend of mine and I went to a cave in Cancun. It was also made of limestone. There, you either have caves or sinkholes, and sometimes, you end up with a little bit of both.
The place was called Loltun, which are tour guide tried to infer came from the sounds made when you struck something against the a stalactite and and a stalagmite that had grown together. Sure enough, each end sounded different and roughly made a lol or tune noise.
It was kind of interesting how the temperature changed in different sections of the cave. It could be very hot and humid in one chamber and very cool in the next.
It took about 45 minutes to walk through it all. Pretty interesting. I wouldn't want to get stuck down there, though. :)
That sounds like an adventure!! 45 minutes and changing temperatures my gosh!!!
all we had was hot and humid all throughout glad I was wearing shorts and a shirt.
Unfortunately we had some of our classmates who died young. One even died when we were in college and was a very sad affair.
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So, there would be places where air shafts had opened from the surface and so it was coming into the cave. I don't know how big they were, I couldn't see them really, but you could definitely feel the breeze when you walked through it and the difference in temperature.
These were more of a series of caves that had basically been worn down into one. Large, mostly open spaces. It would almost be like how you would build a home. In fact, we were told that there was at least one group of the mayans that stayed in the cave during some conflict. I would think it would get kind of gloomy and people would go stir crazy after a while. You would need to be coming up to the surface and getting some food and getting some sunlight, too, just to feel human.
re: died young
Yeah, that would be very sad. Are we talking illnesses, accidents, overdoses, gunfights?