5.55am my alarm was set for... 5.55am. You’d think being away would mean that you actually get some form of rest, but nooo... not me. I have to have action packed all the time and don’t think about how tired I’ll be when that moment comes. Breakfast is between 7-10am and my private transfer was due to pick me up at 8.30, so I ideally wanted to be having breakfast at 7.30.
The night before I knew my hair would need fixing, as the humidity here is crazy and I will end up looking like Monica when she went away in season 9/10 Friends. Luckily, however, when I woke up my hair was pretty tame... that was the alarm going on for another hour.
My day started with an hour-hour and a half journey to a boat station which would take me further into some limestone cliffs and caves. Having booked this through a tour, it means that it’s all private so I don’t have to worry about not being able to see anything or not having enough time to take pictures and soak up the beauty.
The boat journey took around 30-40 mins to get to the first stop, which was a small bay with a couple of small shops and a shoe hire place. I had to hire shoes (which is my biggest regret so far because I took them off to find a leech on my foot EW) as the shoes I had on were inappropriate for all the climbing and walking I was about to do. The guide said it was a rainforest, so I’m going to call it that... it was around about a 30 minute walk through the rainforest. A lot of climbing was involved, but it’s ok because the surroundings were totally worth it.
Once arrived to the destination, there were loads of little shacks just floating on the water (which I later found out were the homes of the people that worked there) and in one of them were pictures of all the animals that has been found in the rainforests. From Bengal cats, to black panthers, to bison, leopards, elephants and porcupine.
We grabbed a bamboo raft and slowly made our way towards the caves. The journey was a short one, but the scenery was breathtaking and the waters were so calm. Inside the caves was both interesting and scary. It was dark - duh - and it looked almost like the cave was going to eat us hole. I was also most fascinated by a group of bats asleeep on the ceiling (if you could even call it that).
On the walk back to the boat I saw a load of black monkeys in the tree, a snake that I’m pretty sure was going to attempt to strike and a tarantula. Safe to say I didn’t get anywhere near that tarantula and let someone else take a photo of it instead.
The boat then took me to a ‘floating restaurant’ which was... a floating restaurant. Oh my lord the Thai’s sure know how to eat. Having had this booked in advance, the food was out within 5 minutes and there were FIVE different dishes to pick from. I thought this was something that was done just at my hotel, but turns out it’s everywhere. I’m quite lucky that I love Thai food, so I’m definitely going to be coming back 10 stone heavier from this trip.
I had some spare time and so headed out onto a kayak for a little while and soaked up the beauty that was around me (and also trying desperately not to drop my phone in the water).
My day was pretty much complete at this point and I was back at the hotel for 4pm to do whatever I wanted for the rest of the day. I’m not going to lie.. I did take a little nap. But I’m up now and writing this just before my planned dinner, which im sure will be another 100 dishes to choose from - I’m not complaining, I promise.
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