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Jungle Fever - Anna & Ian Go Wild
... adapted swifts enter the cave to roost for the night. Truly a sight worth seeing. We are sold, we pack a bag with water and torches and head off to the cave.
Naturally we get lost, but on our second attempt we make it to the park at Tham Lod and hire a Lantern Lady (a local villager who will act as our guide through the caves and carry a lantern as it is pretty dark in there). We walk to the cave entrance and board a bamboo raft to ferry us into the jaws of ...
...Oops, gettin' a little behind here!
... the first time I really felt the reality of true Thai village life, and I couldn't help but feel like an intruder into their world. It was like I just didn't want our culture to pollute or infiltrate theirs in any way, not that it hasn't already. I was even slightly ashamed at my sense of intrigue and found it very hard to look directly at any of them not wanting them to feel as if they were in some kind of freak show for us - not that they haven't ...
Long neck
... in Thailand in terms of culture, food and people. We loved seeing this side of Thailand and decided to rent a motorbike to venture out of town.
The maps we had were pretty sketchy and somehow we pieced together where to go. So we drove through many small villages and gorgeous countryside and finally made it to a long neck Kayan village. It was fun navigating through the dirt roads around huge ...
Boozing to Mountains!
... nice to travel with someone for a couple of days, but then Sara had to go back on Sunday to carry on with her course and so went back to Soppong to Cave Lodge as I really like it here.
On the Monday I went with the guys who run the place on a hike to a cave entrance to do some photography. The guy who runs cave Lodge is a very interesting character and has had a fascinating life. Including, smuggling heroin, working with the Government on Caves mapping and travelling ...
Rafting through the Jungle to a Mountainside Town
... the water so didnt really get a good look at them.
As we headed down river we entered into a National park and had a short stop here. Found that this spot was also where another river joined the one we were on. This other river was the one that was being offered by the other tour agency in Pai and so would have meant missing out on doing a fair number of the rapids. From here saw the other overnight group and a group of day trippers come out.
Continued on ...
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