Eggs Cave, Sodom
- Grid ref.
- 1857/0574
- Location
- Central – western Mount Sodom
Cave mapView the map (PDF)Description of the cave:
The structure of the cave is that of a winding channel which is the underground part of a surface channel in the central – western Mount Sodom.
The surface channel descends underground in a wide salt shaft about 40 m deep through which light penetrates into the cave space. At the bottom of the shaft a narrow, winding passage developed, above which there are abandoned upper levels consisting of very narrow passages. The passages developed in salt rock in a general westward direction.
About 20 m from the shaft there is a narrow passage on the northern side of the passage leading to another shaft – narrow and abandoned. From the abandoned shaft the passage descends another about 40 m (in which the shape of the narrow, winding channel is preserved)
and at their end the channel breaks out an opening in the mountainside and proceeds as an open channel until it drains into Nahal Sodom. Above the lower entrance of the passage there is a ground collapse that created another opening in the passage ceiling.
Access and touring:
The most convenient entrance to the cave is from the lower entrance of the passage, which can be reached from the channel of Nahal Sodom.
The lower entrance of the cave is narrow and impassable. Entering the cave is done from the opening created in the passage ceiling near the cave entrance. This opening is about 4 m above the lower entrance of the passage and can be reached by climbing a short slope above the lower entrance of the cave.
* No bats were seen in the cave.
Equipment:
- Knee pads.
Written by: Boaz Langford
