Koh Lanta Island exploring and caves

Yesterday we went driving around Koh Lanta island on our motorbikes, we did a big loop and on the way we stopped at a mangove forest and they tried to charge us 1,000 baht for a ride on a long tail boat to see the reforestation that they are doing there. We chose not to do it.

After that we went to a big ash tree on the side of the road for a little break. I saw a black and yellow lizard on the tree then when I hung from the tree, I got red ants all over me. They felt sticky and after that we carried on driving again and did the full loop back to where we were staying. We kept on driving and saw a sad elephant chained to a tree so we stopped and gave him some pats.

Then we went to an animal welfare place, and got to see all the dogs and cats that they rescue on the island. The local people arent very good at looking after animals very nicely here. They had 5 packs of dogs in different areas and we got to go into the puppy chamber. 185 animals got adopted from there last year and most of them were transported overseas. That’s pretty amazing I thought.

Mum and I went and explored a really amazing cave after that. It was a 40 minute walk through the jungle to get there. We had a guide with us and 2 other people, it didnt take long to get there because we talked the whole way.

Inside the cave had a really cool temperature, with high walls and roof.  It echoed all the noises we made. We had to walk over bamboo bridges in there and go up and down little ricketty ladders. Sometimes the space the huge and other times we had to crawl through little parts to get out. In the last area we saw hundreds of bats hanging everywhere.

That morning we went to a nice restaurant and I got a…… Full English breakfast which is a pot of tea, (that mum had) 2 pieces of toast with alot of jam and butter, some streaky bacon, 2 over sized sausages, some baked beans and SCRAMBLED EGGS!!!!!!!! It was great! And not Thai!

The end!!!!! Lukoia Coffey over and out