On Friday we went caving in the afternoon. It was dark and damp but pretty cool overall. We learned that one of the local traditional crafts that they do is to take the stalactites and stalagmites and carve them to sell. However, this is not a particularly environmentally friendly activity because stalactites and stalagmites take an extremely long time to form. So people who do this work have had to keep going farther and farther away to find them to carve because they’ve exhausted the caves that are near where they live. In the cave we were in you could see the areas where they had been broken off to be used. We also spent the night at a nearby farm that had a bazillion pigs. We slept in tents out in the yard. The farmer let the pigs out about 5:00 a.m. which was pretty early for the group of us girls that stayed up giggling until almost 2:00 a.m. And we had to take a test later on that morning when we got back to the training center in Santo Domingo. Here’s the pictures from the caves.
Leeann checking out some cool formations in the cave.
Walking through the cave.
So pretty!
Kiri, Jaron, me, and Andrea
Claribel posing.
A pretty, sparkling formation.
Sarah and Malia
Sunset near where the caves were and where we camped.
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