Carlsbad is known for a huge cave structure, about 20k out of town. Today's agenda was all about exploring the caves. We arrived at the caves about 8am, and set about exploring the huge caverns below. Entry was via the mouth of the cave where we saw all the bats leave the night before. The whole cave structure is absolutely huge with hundreds of caves, a fraction of which are open to the public. The structures inside were awesome and incredibly beautiful and see...

After an early lunch at Sadies Restaurant, we left Albuquerque and headed towards Carlsbad Caverns. Passed through Roswell, known for stories of UFO crash landings ( all false, I'm told) and on to Carlsbad, where we made it in time to see the spectacular exit of over 300,000 bats from the mouth of a cave. After setting up tents at White City camping ground, we headed back into Carlsbad, 20k away, for our first taste of American Pizza Hut. Another post midnight b...