Chapter 4 Part 3

In addition to visiting the island, we would often team up with our friends, jump on the motorbikes and tour for hours on end.  This allowed us to see much of the country side and more of the “true” Thailand we were used to.  

With temples everywhere you looked, we stopped at several of them due to the coaching of one of our friends along with us being Thai.  Not being Asian, the temples didn’t have the meaning to us that it did for her and once you see a few, you’ve pretty much seen them all, but we respected her and stopped anyway.  I do admit there are a couple that are quite beautiful but I don’t agree with people pouring money into them when they need to better themselves instead of living in ruins, but that’s another story.  

The temple

One we went to was neat.  It was part of a mountain—which means—a CAVE (not a big one but a cave indeed)!!  It was my first time in a cave and I must say it was quite awesome!  The temperature was cool inside and was a nice break from the warm weather outside.  It was dark (as of course you already figured it would be) but there were a few dim lights in addition to a couple holes that allowed sunshine to show through. 

Bats!!

“I wonder if there are bats in here.”  And sure enough, there were!  We looked up to find the ceiling of the cave line with them.  As we were looking around, the bats would swoop by our heads.  We’d catch subtle glimpses of them as they flew by but being dimly lit, they would fly at you and disappear in the blink of an eye.  And…being the odd person I am…I couldn’t resist making the fitting statement of, “I want to suck your blood” in the ‘vampire’ voice and then pretended that my fingers were fangs and hit my neck.  (Yes, I know I weird but at least I always have myself to laugh at).