We got up at 6:30 AM to be ready for our morning boat ride on the lake. The spider monkeys had been quite active and noisy during the night and this morning they were still marking their presence on the opposite side of the lake.
We headed out with our boat at 7 AM breaking the perfect morning quietness with a boat that sounded like a machine gun. Not the best combination for a quiet morning but our boat driver was kind and turned the engine off and during the next hour we managed to see some monkeys and a few birds before returning to camp and breakfast.
Planning and information is not always the strong side of Thai guides, so after breakfast we were told to pack our stuff since we would be leaving for another cave hike and not coming back to the floating village. Quite annoying since we would have liked to stay back and just enjoy the morning sun and the quiet place. Not an option though.
We back tracked slightly with the boat going towards the next stop and the caves. Once at another floating restaurant we were told to join another group for the hike - our guide not really into hiking this morning. Malene stayed back at the restaurant and Mikkel went with the group towards the caves. No water this morning, just uphill until we got to the cave entrance. Many more bats once we were inside and after some 10 minutes we came to the far end of the cave, turned around and headed back to the restaurant on our own. We had lunch there with a lot of other groups feeling very busy before heading back to the pier, our mini bus and eventually making it back to our hostel.
Reunited with our big back packs we left for the bus to Khao Lak, This time it was a but with and engine and a driver who didn't have to do a 30 minute service stop on the way which cut the transport time down considerably. We were a bit confused as to where to get off the bus in Khao Lak not having done our home work with directions to the hostel fully, but we asked the driver to drop us off at the end of the town and asking a woman in one of the many tourist offices we had a great reply - down the road 100 metres and to the left. We followed directions only to arrive at the hostel we booked and then being told that we had booked at the other branch - which was back the same way we came and more or less across the street from where we stopped.
We got our room in a hostel that had been setup inside an old shopping mall - and then we headed out to the dive shops to see if we could get a reservation for a liveaboard in the next few days. Turned out it was busy season but after a bit of back and forth we signed up for a three day/two nights even though they were short on instructors and Mikkel therefore couldn't get a PADI dive course but had to snorkel on his own. No big deal though. We signed up.
Dinner at a local thai place - they are hard to find in Khao Lak where most menus are in English or a Nordic Language and include Western dishes such as Swedish meatballs. Then back to the hostel to relax after ice cream and coffee for desert. No action tomorrow except for a trip to the beach.
We headed out with our boat at 7 AM breaking the perfect morning quietness with a boat that sounded like a machine gun. Not the best combination for a quiet morning but our boat driver was kind and turned the engine off and during the next hour we managed to see some monkeys and a few birds before returning to camp and breakfast.
Planning and information is not always the strong side of Thai guides, so after breakfast we were told to pack our stuff since we would be leaving for another cave hike and not coming back to the floating village. Quite annoying since we would have liked to stay back and just enjoy the morning sun and the quiet place. Not an option though.
We back tracked slightly with the boat going towards the next stop and the caves. Once at another floating restaurant we were told to join another group for the hike - our guide not really into hiking this morning. Malene stayed back at the restaurant and Mikkel went with the group towards the caves. No water this morning, just uphill until we got to the cave entrance. Many more bats once we were inside and after some 10 minutes we came to the far end of the cave, turned around and headed back to the restaurant on our own. We had lunch there with a lot of other groups feeling very busy before heading back to the pier, our mini bus and eventually making it back to our hostel.
Reunited with our big back packs we left for the bus to Khao Lak, This time it was a but with and engine and a driver who didn't have to do a 30 minute service stop on the way which cut the transport time down considerably. We were a bit confused as to where to get off the bus in Khao Lak not having done our home work with directions to the hostel fully, but we asked the driver to drop us off at the end of the town and asking a woman in one of the many tourist offices we had a great reply - down the road 100 metres and to the left. We followed directions only to arrive at the hostel we booked and then being told that we had booked at the other branch - which was back the same way we came and more or less across the street from where we stopped.
We got our room in a hostel that had been setup inside an old shopping mall - and then we headed out to the dive shops to see if we could get a reservation for a liveaboard in the next few days. Turned out it was busy season but after a bit of back and forth we signed up for a three day/two nights even though they were short on instructors and Mikkel therefore couldn't get a PADI dive course but had to snorkel on his own. No big deal though. We signed up.
Dinner at a local thai place - they are hard to find in Khao Lak where most menus are in English or a Nordic Language and include Western dishes such as Swedish meatballs. Then back to the hostel to relax after ice cream and coffee for desert. No action tomorrow except for a trip to the beach.
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| Beautiful morning on the lake |
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| Almost sunrise |
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| Looking for monkeys |
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| Our tiny bungalow |
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| Mind the gap |
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| Bye bye, floating village |
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| Heading back the same way we came |
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| Ready to go for another hike |
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| Tall trees |
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| Heading down to the cave entrance |
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| Lunch and fruit |
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| Reunited with back packs |
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| And the hammock |
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| Everything OK at the dive shop |
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