Continuing our way down south we stopped at the ancient lava tubes of Undara.

Access to the lava tubes was only by a special guided tour to the national park. When we arrived we walked through a dry savannah then into a pocket of rain forest thicket to enter the tubes. Before we arrived at the mouth of the tube we noticed the drop in temperature. We came around a bend and the tube loomed before us – a large cylinder made out of ragged rock faces. It became darker and damper. As we went further into the lava tubes we spotted bats with our torch and saw the special “drawings” in the rocks made out of the silicon minerals like a heart, a polar bear without its left ear and a kangaroo.

After the tour we went on a walk around a crater rim. During the walk we stopped at a look out and saw a strip of darker trees snaking its way across the landscape, that was the lava tube we had been in that day and it was amazing that you could see it extending for kilometres. The Undara lava tubes was a very impressive natural feature and landscape which was definitely worth the visit.