There are so many tours you can do as a tourist in Thailand and whilst we didn't want a trip to be one endless tour, we did do a few. This one went through a national park that was mostly made up of mangroves so the tour vehicle was a long boat. There were a number of sites along the way so plug your ears (the boat was noisy) and just aboard.
This is the kind of boat we were on.
We were seated a few rows back. Our fellow travelers were really nice but the boat was too noisy to strike up any real conversations. But we still had fun on our own.
The first part of the trip took us through passages of mangroves and then opened out into this:
A whole bunch of jaggerty islands popping out of the water. Some of these island had been eroded away leaving 'water caves' for us to journey through.
Rob loved it!
We stopped in at one of the islands. This one was famous for being in a James Bond movie. It was pretty much a few big rocks separated by a small beach. There is also a rock that protrudes out of the water a short distance from the beach. I think this was part of the movie. I could imagine one of the bonds speeding around it in an expensive boat.
Below are some pics of and on the island.
We jumped on board again and cruised past some beautiful rock art. Many of the caves are home to swallows. These are the swallows that make their nests out of their spit. These nests are in turn harvested by humans and sold (by weight for as much as silver) for eating and, I think, medicinal purposes.
The last stop was a Muslim fishing village. Some of it was built on a small sliver of land, but most of it was suspended over the water on stilts. It even had big a mosque (see the left side of the pic below).
This is the kind of boat we were on.
We were seated a few rows back. Our fellow travelers were really nice but the boat was too noisy to strike up any real conversations. But we still had fun on our own.
The first part of the trip took us through passages of mangroves and then opened out into this:
A whole bunch of jaggerty islands popping out of the water. Some of these island had been eroded away leaving 'water caves' for us to journey through.
Rob loved it!
We stopped in at one of the islands. This one was famous for being in a James Bond movie. It was pretty much a few big rocks separated by a small beach. There is also a rock that protrudes out of the water a short distance from the beach. I think this was part of the movie. I could imagine one of the bonds speeding around it in an expensive boat.
Below are some pics of and on the island.
We jumped on board again and cruised past some beautiful rock art. Many of the caves are home to swallows. These are the swallows that make their nests out of their spit. These nests are in turn harvested by humans and sold (by weight for as much as silver) for eating and, I think, medicinal purposes.
The last stop was a Muslim fishing village. Some of it was built on a small sliver of land, but most of it was suspended over the water on stilts. It even had big a mosque (see the left side of the pic below).
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