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Khao Yai
The tour guide took us trekking into the jungle where we saw Gibbons, Macaques, spiders, caterpillars, centipedes, lizards, a crocodile and a green snake that we were told was very poisonous - not that that stopped people getting up close for a photo as it coiled back ready to strike. At the visitors centre there were some deer who weren't afraid of humans, and would let you come quite close. In the afternoon we visited two waterfalls, one of which was used in the film "The Beach".
On the way back we tried to spot elephants, but they weren't around for us. The next day was a much later start. First we went to a freshwater spring for a bit of swimming. We were told we could jump off the bridge (about a 2m drop) but the water below was only 1.5m deep so nobody did it.
We jumped off the sides of the pool and, after a bit of trial and error, found out where the deep end was where you could jump without hitting the rocks, but not before we had gotten a few bruises. Health and Safety is just not the same in Thailand. Next the guide took us to a local market where flys swarmed around all the food, but it didn't seem to put anyone off. The guide got us a few different foods to try, some of which were nice, and some which were fried silkworm/locusts.... Fuck that for a laugh. Still, it was interesting to learn about the weird things Thai people will eat, like handfuls of live shrimp. After that we went to the bat cave.
The floor was coated in bat shit, but it didn't smell bad. We saw a long legged centipede, a speedy bugger which the tour guide called an alien hybrid between a caterpillar and spider - not far off really.
She also showed us a tarantulas next, where the tarantula sat guarding the entrance.
We didn't see many bats in the cave, maybe 5 or 10 at most, but when we exited the cave we watched as over a million bats flew out in a long line, which lasted for an hour. After this we went back to the lodge, and in the morning we got the 2.5hr train to Ayutthaya.
So many bats
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