We started at 3:00 for our half day tour to the bat cave and heaps of other places. We started at the hotel and drove to the springs. There were heaps of people there so we didn’t swim. Joe told us that we would come back soon so we carried on to the temple.
At the temple there was a flight of stairs going down in to a cave. We went down them and at the bottom Joe made me put out my hand and he put a tiny cave frog on it. He turned him upside down and stroked him on his under belly and he froze. He was playing dead and it was really cool but on we went into the other side of the cave.
There were alot of bats on the other side of the cave and at one point I got to hold a scorpion spider. A scorpion spider can’t bite but the centipede can. The centipede that I was holding was poisonous and it had so many legs it was crazy and myself and Dad went right to the back of the cave where bats were hanging and they were flying around us like they were magic. We had to go soon so we headed for the back entrance to the truck.
We went to the big bat cave now and sadly we weren’t allowed to go in to the bat cave or else the bats wouldn’t come out at night. Here are some photos of the bats coming out of their cave. The hawks and falcons catch some of the bats but there are about 2,000,000 bats that fly out of the cave every night so it doesn’t really make a difference.
After that we drove to the springs. It was geting dark but we still went swimming in the DARK!!! It was really refreshing and then we went home, ate a great dinner and went to bed happy. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 :-):-) Lukoia Coffey over and out.:-)
Hey Lukoia, I remember going to the bat cave almost 10 years ago. It’s amazing when they all stream out into the sky. Though it’s probably a good thing you didn’t go in the cave since with 2,000,000 bats at any one time there must be at least a thousand going to the toilet!
Hope you like the maps I’ve added. I’ll send you an email telling you how to add them.
Cool thanks for the information. Big love thx
Wow – maps would be great to help us follow you as you journey. Now we have to go to an atlas where the placenames are very tiny and tough for old eyes to read.
Could you tell us more about the king whose tomb you saw at the temple a few days ago?
sup bro its me hari i finally got into your blog can you give me more information about the scorpian spider hari d’hont over and out hahaha!
Yup I will tell you about it on skype. bros
Hi Koia, Wowweee. … I’m here with Pania and Shanti in Western Australia and we’re looking at all of your posts. We’re sooo impressed! We really liked the photo of the Buddha face that the tree was growing around, it looked cool. And how did it feel to climb up inside that awesomely big tree? It looked pretty high. Maybe that’s where the ticks climbed onto you.??? Were there hornbills roosting in that tree too? The photo of it’s pretty impressive by the way! Do they roost like chooks? Do they have nests up high or do they make nests on the ground? Annnd what did it sound like when all the bats came out of the cave? Was it freaky? Pania wanted to know what happens if you get bitten by the poisonous centerpede? Is it like a spider bite? Ouweee! Hope not. Do you have to take an antihistamine for it? what do the locals do in that situation? I bet they have some bush remedy for it….I wonder what it is?
Thanks for keeping us informed with all that your up to, the maps really help too. X x love you lots.
I hope your school mates and friends back in NZ are seeing yr blog too. Its pretty exciting!!!! Mama Kahu over and out. X x