Sunday, August 17, 2008

Caving n swiming at the lagoon




Day 19 - Today we decided to rent a moto crossing the bridge to see one of the biggest caves n do some swimming at the river.

Arrived the Lagoon. It was beautiful. It was another river flows to the Mekong. Since it is not the main river, the river is milky turquoise in color + green trees, cows, swings and the lime stone, has created a fairy tale scene. We swam there for a while, had lunch n started climbing up the mountain to the cave.

The way hiking up to the cave wasn't easy. It was pretty steep n slipery. I can hardly say there is a path to hike. We were most of them climbing up, especially me was with both hands. The cave was big. There was a shrine table with one sleeping budha n some small ones. Sun light coming in from the cracks shining on the budha's face.

Behind the budha n the big rock, is the huge cave. Dont get me wrong, we needed to half crawl n half hike in order to get to see the budha table. But if you wanna see more, would have to climb deeper.

Walking down was another hardwork. much worse than going up because of the slipery mud. There were 2 locals behind us. The kid was jus hoping down the mountain, made me looking like a retard. Today I learnt this word "argile". not me, them.

On the way back, hit the rain. Got heavily bombarded for 10 mins before the ending. All wet afterall.

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