Good news everyone! Palmito is again open for sport caving trips, I was there last week with the Sea Aggies and spoke to Rogelio the former gatekeep, he and the guy who's in charge now said it was ok for people to get off the walkways and see the rest of the cave, provided of course that you ask for permission at the Comandancia de Policia, and pay your ticket (which is now $40 pesos twice as much as it used to) the one thing I dont like is that you're not allowed to drive your vehicle up the mountain, there's a shuttle service and you have to be out of the cave by 4pm. Rogelio mentioned being embarrased about the fact that the new management is also charging an entrance fee to people who were part of the cave cleanup efforts in the past (when the city owned the cave entrance was free for us) and asked me to talk to the mayor about it, which I might do sometime if I bump into him.
Nico
