Dozens of caves are scattered throughout El Choco National Park, near the town of Cabarete, but only a few have been developed for tourists. Guides tell stories of playing in the five-million-year-old caverns when they were children and point out art on the walls made by Taino (Arawak) natives, who were living on the island when Columbus arrived in 1492. 
The highlight of the tour is a visit to one of the largest caves, where you are invited to swim in the deep, clear, spring-fed pool that fills the bottom. Ben and Nolan were brave and swam! I cannot believe I was brave enough to let them.
This was very scary...the only way you could tell, since it was so dark, to see if it was cave floor or water was to touch it. Some of the pools were 60 feet deep in narrow little holes.
The cave frogs were hard to photograph
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