Trip to Thailand : Day 3 (Breakfast and Caving (Khamin Cave) in Surat Thani

Day 3 (20 September)

Location : Surat Thani

On the third day, we woke up fresh around 8am and went to take our breakfast in local dim sum shop. The food does not look like our Malaysian/Hong Kong dim sum at all. It looks more like steamboat where you pick your delicacy from a frozen ice area and ask them to make it hot for you. The taste is ok. Smaller portion, something like the Ipoh dim sum. Chee Cheong Fun looks weird.

After our breakfast, we actually plan to go see temple. But one of our gang want to go to caving. We all tempted to follow him since someone mentioned there's a lot of temple in Koh Samui (in the end of the trip, we did not enter any temple at all except the Big Buddha in Koh Samui). Here, things get interesting. We never expect to go cave in Thailand. And so, we went in and find it quite interesting to have such a big cave. It's some kind of mining cave.

Only after caving, we go to the pier to take ferry to Koh Samui....

Walking to take our breakfast...

Workers dripping oil after frying....

Not sure if he is the boss...

Customer eating...

Quite a lot of customer..

This is the frozen area where we take the dim sum to be heated

Preparing to be steamed... (steamboat?)

Pau....

Dim sum

Siu Mai

Lo Mai Kai

Chicken leg

Chee Cheong Fun

Meatball with mushroom

Ready to eat

Char Siew Pau

Asking for direction to go Khamin Cave

Everywhere can see this electricity cable

Cable everywhere...

Checking out from hotel

Thai yellowpages...

Finally we reach Khamin Cave....

Khamin Cave is there <--------

The paying counter to enter the cave

Stairs to the cave

Toilet at the other side of cave

The tree near the toilet...not sure what it is collecting..erm...

Me at Khamin cave entrance...

Stairs going up the cave entrance...

Looking down the stairs...

View at the higher ground....

Sun streaking through the big stone....

Hey, there's a bridge you need to cross too

The cave is dark...so scary...

First glimpse of what to expect in the cave...

Really going down the cave now....

The cave lighting

The cave lighting is nice that I take it twice....

I mean thrice....

More cave pics...

Need to go down some more using metal stair case...

PBS and Dino
A jeep used to transport bat's faeces to be used as fertilizer
Route going deeper
deeper...

and deeper...
cave formation....
stalactite...
water formation

light up the cave....
big spider roaming the cave...actually there's a lot of bugs...
cave formation..
rocks everywhere

during raining days, water coming down here...
formed by water rushing down...
another rock formation...
bugs....

Quite deep into the cave...must be around 1km deep
stalactite and stalagmites?
Can decipher what it looks like?

more stalactite and stalagmite

left shows the meeting point of stalactite and stalagmite

got look like human or not?
river flowing down
with flash...

Dino and Aeroplane...
the size of rock formation compare to our gang..
another huge rock formation...
Is this getting boring?

Maybe....
wah, can fall down...I wonder how deep...can gandalf survive?

light up the cave...

path to everywhere....
The tour guide said this got look of Buddha..

Look like skulls..
and more skulls...

long stalactite...
start to get dizzy..haha
ok, we're finally out of the cave..

Group photo before going out..

Another group photo at entrance..
Not sure what Dino is doing there...maybe paying tips and buying water...
The van driver is sleeping while waiting for us....
finally we're going off now to Koh Samui...tata...

Saying goodbye to Khamin Cave....