Caves

Day 23

    Chilled out at the family guy bar for breakfast and heard about the caves you can go to see close by so we decide to head out to see them. Mandy, Kirk, Debbie and I got a tractor tuk tuk from town 7km to the caves it was quite a ride through swamps and over some gnarly roads.

    We got a guide and he gave us headlights and took us up the hill a 100ft and into the caves. They were slippery and dark so having a guide to show us where to walk was a good idea!  He took us about an hour deep into the caves where it was pitch black and into huge rooms that were 50 ft wide and 25 ft tall! Some spaces we had to duck down and squeeze through entering all sorts of different sized caves with stalagmites and stalactites all over.

     I was literally dripping sweat and after our spelunking in the caves there was a beautiful swimming at the bottom of the hill with deep blue water and a tree you could jump off into the cool water.

     As we sat and relaxed I met a guy named Chris Taylor who had lived in Mendocino until he was 8 yrs old and went to the Green house School with me when I was in first and second grade! He moved away to Hawaii, and he also knew Jake Barefoot our good friend from Hawaii and a child hood friend of mine whom I had grown up with. I remembered his dad Ron Taylor who used to work in Mendocino at the Chevron gas station. It really makes you realize how small the world is.
     Our ride back on the tuk tuk was crazy and the driver didnt slow up for anything almost nailing cows, dogs and even children. We returned and of course found Chris at the family guy bar where we joined him and relaxed until around 9. We went out to Bucket Bar and met up with the crazy Aussie guys who we met back in Pai, Thailand who were trashed from tubing all day and still going hard. We partied there for a while and ended up back at the Q-Bar where we met the Swiss Boys from Laung Prabang who were dancing and "cutting shapes". We finished the night at the Sunset bar across the river the only place still open until they finally closed as well.