Caving

Today was a day of mountain climbing and caving, the first cave is a popular cave with both locals and tourists (what few there are) Phraya Nakhon Cave, this cave is both a burial sight for monks and houses the Kuha Karuhas Pavilion which was built for Rama V (The old old king of Thailand, we are currently on Rama X), this was more of a climb than we were was prepared for as we made the decision to hike from the starting point to enable us to also see the views from the local viewpoint as opposed to cutting the hike and taking the boat.

We had some refreshments afterwards and decided that we should visit the less known Kaeo Cave, as after all, it was on the route back.

Dan was excited about this cave as you have to enter it via a ladder, what he failed to inform us was that the whole cave would be pitch black and the only lights would be the headlights which the national guard provided us as the start for the 100m vertical climb at the base of

the mountain, or that once in the cave would be following some tiny little arrows deeper into the cave for 400m until we saw the sunlight shining through the ceiling, the cave was amazing and was a definite caving experience. As Dan said "there is no way it would have been just open to the public in England", we physically crawled through gaps and climbed Stalamites to avoid the pits and bats. Overall a great day, not sure if I will be saying that tomorrow with stiff knees.