Khao Sok and Chiaw Lan Lake...

With my teaching finished I left Chumpon and got a bus to Khao Sok. The place is beautiful and I got my very own tree house to stay in for a couple of days but for various reasons I did not have a good time here and all that is worth mentioning was getting to feed some monkeys. So then off to Chiaw Lan Lake which was amazing! I was staying there with a German couple and a hilarious Dutch couple, we all got our own draft house which was basically a small hut on the lake with only a mattress inside. After some lunch we got into a long tailed boat and headed out to a waterfall which we climbed up and got to see some of the jungle, unfortunately all the animals had decided to hide but the views were stunning. Then back to the long tail boat and over to a bat cave where with torch in hand we jumped from the boat into the lake and swam into the cave, the further you went in the darker it got and suddenly you see all the bats flying above. I realise this might sound awful; to some of you but I happen to quite like bats, luckily! That night we all sat down to eat and had fun with the family who live there. The next morning we sit down on a boat/table to have breakfast, with the pancakes and coffee ready our tour guide starts up the boat/table and we have a trip round the lake whilst tucking into breakfast. Probably the strangest and most amazing way I have ever had breakfast!