The path in the first picture led to Tam Khanh Kham Cave and what could have been my death. Seriously! After paying admission, all I had left was a 50,000 kip note (about $7) and hiring a guide cost 10,000. Unfortunately, the prepubescent boys at the entrance did not have change so they sent me to the cave on my own and apparently to my death. Seriously!
This was not a cave with a wide opening and soaring ceiling but it was more of a spelunking-style of cave. I started to enter using the extremely weak flashlight I had bought but the only thing I could make out was a spider about the size of my hand on the wall above my head. Time to turn back!
I headed back and persuaded one of the reluctant young men to accompany me. Thank God I did! At one point, we crawled through a hole which was barely a foot and a half in diameter. At another, there was a ten-foot stretch of cave that was barely two feet high from floor to ceiling.
The reward? To say that I did it and survived AND I got a picture of the "big Buddha statue" inside! Also, one of my roommates is an avid caver and I was hoping he'd at least give me props for giving it a try. Nah! He barely batted an eye when I told him. Oh well.......it was A LOT of fun and quite an adventure!
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