Today was going to be an adventurous day of caving, rafting and visiting other attractions! We met up with the driver outside the shop where we signed up for the tour the night before! Besides the 6 of us, there are several other tourists sharing the van with us. Driver told hubby and I to take the seats next to him. So that was how we had our 1st class view the entire journey!
First, we visited the Mae Yen Temple (White Buddha) that was the nearest of all attractions. There was a large Buddha statue on top of a hill. But to get there, we had to climb a rather long flight of stairs. After covering our legs and shoulder, we raced up the flight of stairs.
Next, we headed to the Lod Cave after about an hour drive. Guides were present with kerosene lamps to bring us around the 3 caves in the area. It was like a geography lesson field trip when the guide showed us around the cave. Most of the path was easy. And when we reached the 3rd cave, we embarked on the much anticipated rafting. However, reality was a vast difference from my expectation. I had imagined it to be a leisurely ride while we look at the scenary. However, the ride was in the dark and I was more busy covering my head after seeing the bat droppings all over the place, so as to prevent having 1 on me. Dead bats were also found lying all over the floor in the 3rd cave. I seriously couldn’t wait to get out of the place! The guys in our group had bird droppings on them, probably due to their larger surface area (haha!). Once we were out of the caves, we quickly washed up and had a quick lunch at the shop at our own expenses.
On the way back, we stopped by a viewpoint. All of us alighted to take a better look at the mountains. There, we spotted a ‘ferris wheel’ that was unmanned. There were 4 seats on it, with no safety features except our own hands. The ladies started to pick our seats while the guys helped shift us so that we could all sit on it. Another tourist decided to take the last seat to complete the experience. We then started spinning on it! Looking back, we could have fallen! But it was really fun!
We then went to the land split. According to locals, it was a natural occurrence. We took a short walk up to see the split (another geography class)! The owner also sold drinks at a small stall near the entrance.
Next, we visited the waterfall not too far from the land split. According to the itinerary, we were supposed to be given some time to play in the waterfall. However, the water looked more like teh peng than anything else! We decided not to go into the water after a short walk in.
Our last stop was at the Pai Canyon. We were supposed to be there to catch the sunset. However, because of the drizzle, the sky was cloudy. We were also about an hour early because we skipped the ‘teh peng’. So we took our time to take photos instead.
When we were back in our resort, we were quite hungry and tired. We had a quick wash up and went to a nearby restaurant (Pen’s Kitchen) for dinner. It was a small restaurant that served very nice Thai food. The 6 of us had to crowd around a small table to fill our hungry tummies.
Table full of food 
We had to hold our plates cause there was no more space!
After dinner, we were getting tired and were all ready to settle for a good massage. We found a decent looking massage place next to our resort and had a good massage there before calling it a night!
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