Thailand: Day 6 (Longtail)

We return home, shower, then head back out again and look for a long tail boat driver. So many come up to you and ask if you'd like a ride. If you're looking, it's great, but if you're not, not so great and really, just disruptive and you try to take different footpaths to bypass them.

We can't find the one we want (we meet one the other day that looked really friendly and spoke english well). So we go with someone else. He tells us 600, but we say no, 300. He wants at least 400 so we find another couple to do it with. And off we go. Finally a long tail boat ride!

We get to the caves and there's a 30 baht entrance fee.

It's so amazing. Everything is just amazing. It feels like you’re in a different time. A completely different land and its paradise. We see one monkey but that's all. The stairs up are just so different from anything I've seen before. They're beautiful. So well done. We reach the caves and are just awestruck. What a cool place! It's indescribable but I felt like I could have returned a million times and wouldn't have tired of it. It's a simply must see. I even climbed the ropes! It was so fun! Tiring! There were trees on the other side and you could see the side of the cliff upwards. It's breathtaking. 

Back on the boat we head to the mangroves.

It's very narrow but the driver navigates through very well.

We thought that this would be the end of the tour but as soon as we see the end of the tunnel we see there are houses on stilts and it goes on and on.

It's so amazing to see. Right then I was so amazed and couldn't believe I hadn't heard of this before.

We stop at one of the restaurants. But what I didn't realise is that there were fish to see. There were some big and some small. I can't say it enough but I was mind blown. I didn't expect this at all.

One of the guys comes over and says something to the Asians, he doesn't understand but I see he's pointing so I follow him.

He leads us to some of the fish and gets some fish out to feed them. He slaps the water with the fish and moves the water around. The big one comes around, and chews it up! It looked so funny!

He then lets me have a go, woohoo! The fish comes and gobbles on it, I quickly let go!

He then leads us to like 6 others and feeds the fish. Amazing experience.

Words don't even begin to describe how this experience was. I loved it. He then asks if we would like some ice cream and I'm like yes! I don't care if I don't want any but that was well worth the money! We give him a tip. We head back - what a cool ride.

We grab dinner from a place we'd been to before then a massage to wind us down before bed.

A cute little lizard. Animals in Thailand are so much different than back home. There are so many lizards here, lots of little orange ones like this one and we also spotted a bigger black and white spotted one on the way home one day. We've also seen a frog that was on the path while walking home from this restaurant one night. As big as my fist. Colourful fish. We'd see huge cockroaches while in the big city when walking home at night. A squirrel. Theres pretty much just one breed of dog in Thailand and they aren't like dogs in New Zealand. They're very slow and not interested in you. Sometimes if you feed them they wont eat it!