Now we have stepped inside the upper part of the cave. The ladder to your left is a recent addition which allows archeologists access to the floor, maybe 30 feet or so below us. Apparently, Calavera is Spanish for "skull." The formation you see in the distance, barely to left of center, is supposedly responsible for the name (changed through time to Kalabara Cave). This photo does a very poor job of showing size and distance. The skull is probably 40 or 50 feet away from us. The chamber we are looking into, according to Wikipedia, is about 60 feet tall. It's a much steeper and slick cliff between where I am standing and the bottom than what it looks like here (I was standing on a safe spot, but would not have wanted to step any closer). Photo taken without flash, and with no tripod (although I may have been steadying the camera against a rock a bit).

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