diff --git a/core/views/caves.py b/core/views/caves.py
index 325c593..7217261 100644
--- a/core/views/caves.py
+++ b/core/views/caves.py
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ def cavepage(request, karea, subpath):
     except Cave.DoesNotExist:
         # probably a link to text or an image e.g. 1623/161/l/rl89a.htm i.e. an expoweb page
         # cannot assume that this is a simple cave page, for a cave we don't know.
-        return expo.expopage(request, str(kpath))
+        return expo.expopage(request, kpath)
     except Cave.MultipleObjectsReturned:
         caves = Cave.objects.filter(url = kpath) 
         # we should have a -several variant for the cave pages, not just the svxcaves: