Cave of The Mounds

... , lived in a few, and even had a baby in one! Why should anybody go? Chieftains Trail & Cannonball Trail & Indian Mounds & Civil War Battlefields & Great Locomotive Chase & Barnsley Gardens & Paradise Gardens & Rock Swaps & World's Deepest Caves & Main ...

... untouched.  This area was a ceremonial site.  Coming back down the ladder was a bit freaky and we walked back through the cave, passing a rock formation that looks a little like the Catholic nativity scene. We made it back to our shoes and back ...

... very stress free trip! In Greymouth we decided on cave diving. I had been "cave hiking" before when I went to Devil's Lake (Cave of the Mounds) in 7th grade, but this was very different. We were given a box of warm clothes, wool socks, wetsuits, ...

... – it was like being in a hippy girl’s bathroom – probably J  I also saw giant termite mounds (the mounds not the termites – giant termites would not have been good.  Best of all I saw loads of Kangaroos (and/or wallabies ...

... ! it is so much cooler under there. it makes the surface of the town look like Mars...all the red dirt and the mounds like huge craters...but they definitely have the right idea. Coober Pedy was such a quirky little place. some people didn't like it, i ...

... who crawled through a 14" hole in his yard that had wind coming out of it.  Brave man!  He spent 4 years discovering the cave and then was killed by the flu epidemic when visiting the Worlds Fair in Chicago.  The walk was nice, about 300 ...

... ash, leaving the hardy cones as refuge. The residents were true troglodytes of the 'modern' era. The pointed edifices call up images of termite mounds, 50m termite mounds, with doors, windows and air vents positioned to protect from searing 45 deg C ...

... Lake State Park, Natural Bridge State Park w/ Tom Pedger July 17: McGreger, IA - Pikes Peak State Park, Rock Springs, Effigy Mounds National Monument w/ Chloris Lowe July 18: Worthington, MN - Mississippi River w/ Tim Loose (going out on boats and stuff) ...

... for their camel races. I reckon a male camel is actually the biggest land animal I have ever seen in the wild. Later we saw some huge termite mounds our guide estimated were 130 years old. He could tell by the height, which was 4m for the ...

... park where we could swim and chill out, it was really nice but very busy which spoilt it a bit. We also visited the giant termite mounds that are about 5 metres high and about 50 years old.  The are incredible as they are built by the ...

... , and to the east is Iraq... I cannot believe we are driving on this highway.  As we are deep in the Dead Sea Highway, I see nothing but mounds of sand dunes, mini sand storms, and a whole lot of nothingness... sand and mountains.  Let's just ...

... , and there were several spectactular points where we turned corners, and saw the most beautiful scenic views - giant sand mounds reminiscent of Fraser Island. The murky weather didn't really do it justice though, I felt, but still, it couldn't be ...

... at one point, there is Chinese Cemetery.  If you have never seen one, they are something else.  They are rows of big mounds in the side of the hill with giant tombstones.   Just past the cemetery, we came to a temple ...

... are then decorated, if families have the money with a crocheted blanket and artifical flowers. Poorer graves are just mounds and some put upside down beer bottles around the grave so extra earth can be piled up to give more height. 2. We then visited ...

... back towards Tagbilaran City.  In Carmen, we saw a past "wonder of the world" the Chocolate Hills.  The Chocolate Hills are large mounds made of weathered limestone, but the composition has been debated as well as their creation.  The view ...

... a gorge and played with the giant termite mounds, then realizing that that area was traced with 1080 poison, we didn't eat the termite mounds so we're ok but learned my lesson about exploring and not reading signs. We headed to more beaches after that ...

... though the women were happy for me to swim (Boleh? Boleh! Can? Can!) we went on to see the caves. The caves are impressive, vast structures with huge mounds of bat and bird droppings (also known as "guano", or "bat/bird shit") on the floor. No artificial ...

... campsite at night and were unaware of the lunar like environment that we were surrounded by. Crisp bleached white chalky mounds poked up from the orange sand and resembled scenes from Antarctica. As the sun continued to rise, the shadows that it cast ...

... usual supplies, beer, toilet paper and peanuts. We reached the base of the mountains and set up our tents sharing with the goats, we had to clear mounds of goat shit out of the way but still our tents wound up stinking of goat shit and piss. For dinner ...

... around the salt lake before cutting across toward a few large puddles of water surrounded by fifty square miles of sharp mounds of salt. The sun climbed up over the volcanoes of the northern Chilean Andes-Licancabur and Lascar the most notable; the ash ...