Hello everyone, so another early start again for us as we needed to be up, dressed, van packed with tent in trailer for 6am! I hadn't been up that early since school I think. Personally am starting to get bored of camping but at least the rain has stopped for a little bit.

After a couple of hours of cramped bus driving through deserted flat land we stopped to breakfast at IHOP, both Nikki and I's first experience of the international house of pancakes and it didn't disappoint amazing, thick and fluffy YUM!! At the same time I managed to book blink 182 concert tickets for me and nikki in Vegas with a couple of other guys on the trip, it will be incredible and much cheaper than in the UK. So after breakfast we got back in van and after another 4hours of driving arrived at our campsite.

We set up camp and grabbed some dinner before driving into the caverns to view the famous bat flight. In the national park the long winding road carved it's way through the hillside before reaching the bat amphitheater at the summit. The seats carved out of the hill side over looking the large cave entrance below us. As the sun set the bats start to leave the cave, the guide estimated there were 75k bats heading into the night sky in search of dinner. It was amazing as if the air was alive around us, flying round our heads and over into the mountains surrounding the cave. After this magically sight we heading back the camp site to bed down for the night.

We were woken up at 7am to head back into the caverns to view the caves by day light. We again drove up to where we watched the bats but this time followed a small winding bath into the cave. It was breath taking, each switch back turn took us deeper into another world (which unfortunately didn't smell to great, bats = guano or bat poop) there were stalagmites and stalagtities everywhere, floor to ceiling. We continued further into the cave to view some fantastic rock formations,caves and alcoves. After the caves we headed back up to the visitors centre to collect our junior rangers badges for completing the 5 to 11age work book :).

With badges in hand we hitched up the trailer and headed to onward to our next stop Santa Fe.