Cobra Hood Cave

Descent from the top of the rock is much easier and quicker. You go down the same way you came up until just below the second checkpoint when you keep to the left-hand path that takes you down to the car park and exit. On your way from here stop at the Cobra Hood Cave, dating from possibly the third century BC that has a painting on the ceiling, and a drip ledge at the top that looks remarkably like a cobra hood from a distance.

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