21 OCTOBER 2006

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Team 2 catch a morning flight to Enshi where they are picked up by bus and taken the two hours to Lichuan arriving in time for lunch. Whilst waiting for their arrival, the others completed some chores. The tackle store was tidied and Harvey and Eddie measured and labelled the ropes. Bruce engaged in some computing but struggled due to viruses and a corrupt print driver that was overloading the processor with jobs. (Graham later identified the problem but the offending file was not found until Bruce got back to the UK).

When the others arrived, we all boarded their coach and drove to Teng Long Dong restaurant for lunch.
Afterwards we wandered into the showcave entrance and waited for the drivers of the electric 'buses' to arrive. Emerson walked ahead and managed to get as far as the laser show set. Unfortunately we were all too late to see this, but instead we satisfied ourselves with another performance of the grand show.



By climbing the pole he wins the girl


A powerful projector illuminates the back wall of the cave passage


Professor Yan poses with the gorgeous lead performers of the show

In the evening, the complete team gathered for a briefing given by Ged in one of the large spare bedrooms in the hotel. This was followed by a team gathering in the BBQ street around the corner from our hotel where we downed countless beers and polished off many BBQ spicy beef skewers.