9. 3. Koh Lanta

Today was an exciting day as we were off to "Khoa Mai Khew" caves. We were also slightly hesitant as Thai caves don't have a good track history as recently a football team of 14 boys got stuck for 14/15 days! We headed to the caves and sat and waited for our guide to come. After about 30 mins we upto the cave which took about 30 minutes walk through the jungle up the mountain. We realised this was going to be more difficult than we thought as even the walk up to the caves was really difficult, slippy and steep. We eventually got to the top absolutely dripping in sweat we headed into the cave, it was really tight with alot of crawling and tight spots and sketchy ladders. Typical Thailand... But was very enjoyable we saw a big spider and about 100 bat's. James had hiccups and was letting out the loudest hiccups all the way around the cave which the group found entertaining. On our way out we had to crawl through the smallest hole about 2 mtrs and it was full of a muddy puddle which was lovely 😂. Once we left and got back to the bottom we were so sweaty, hottest thing we've ever done, hands down.
After cooling down we headed back to our cabin to get changed and then headed down to Koh Lantas scenic beaches alongside the national park. First stop Bamboo Beach, which was lovely but full of rubbish overflow as Thailand has a real issue during off season with Malaysian and Indonesian rubbish floating ashore.We stopped and saw a family of Monkeys which were on the road. We decided to move on to our next stop Nui Bay, here was lovely and less litter so we stopped for the evening, we then stopped for a look at Bakantiang beach whilst racing the sunset home. We ran down to our beach with a beer to watch the sun go down and it was a cool sunset tonight. Afterwards we had some tea and then we packed before unwinding for the evening.Read more