Hmm, we don't like people smoking when we are having breakfast! Naughty! Nice breakfast all the same though.
We got a taxy with 'Tus', firstly to the fruit market, where we bought 2kg of mangosteen, 1kg dragon eyes, and 1kg of mangoes for $7! Amazing!
We got to Tiger Cave, and it was pretty hot. A woman made bracelets for all of us to wear for luck, and the we went up to Tiger Cave, and read about the cave and how the tiger with a big roar lived in the cave, and the Buddhists move in, and the tiger migrated and never seen again. Lots of monkeys everywhere.
Then we began our walk up the 1237 steps. Wow, it was hard for everyone, and we took our time, stopping at the top of each steep flight of stairs. Roxy did so well with her short legs, and Aiysha stopped complaining after 500 steps after Daddy stopped talking about taking small challenge as it comes - it got boring. We had 2 water stops on the way up but refilled at the top by the girls who were desperate for a drink! Survival!
Amazing temple though, amazing view, lit josticks for good luck by Clog and Paish.
The way down was a lot easier, and we stopped to talk to a Burma couple, and English / Thai couple - pretty funny. Roxy's legs were shaking on the way down! As we almost reached the bottom, we were attacked by monkeys! They even stole our precious water bottle! We finally got down by trying to ignore them, but they seemed to attack the next family coming up! Oh dear...
Once we got down, we had a fruit fest! It was lovely!
Once we ate our fill, we headed off to the Crystal Pools - it started raining, and we decided to get some snacks - sweetcorn, eggs, and a not so nice sausage :-(. We walked to the Crystal Pools to the loud sound of cicadas, and it took a while through the forest, but it was worth it! It was amazing! It was so clear, and so slippery we used the waterfall as a slide! It was so funny. Clog climbed on Daddy, shouted 'Taxi', and waved like the Queen, and I did gymnastics on the side, as usual. There were amazing damsel flies, butterflies, and after about an hour, there was really loud thunder. Mummy tried to tell Clara it was a motorbike - strange Mummy. What an amazing place.
On the way out, we had more fruit and bought another egg. The taxi stopped off at the fruit market on the way home and we got more mangusteen and dragon eyes. We got home at about 6.30 after Tus told us about spending 24 years in Switzerland as a chef and he had a 14 and 16 year old who live there, which was a bit sad as he never saw them.
We headed out at 7 for dinner, and we ordered our bracelets which said Aiysha and Clara on them from a lovely boy - they were amazing. A young Thai boy chatted to Daddy for ages and didn't even try to sell him anything - that was a first! We had dinner at Jeanettes which was yummy again, and had ice creams, but the pancake place was closed - Daddy was sad. We got another tut tut home, and still they didn't understand Mummy - so funny!
Mummy and Aiysha had a night time swim, had fruit, some TV and DS.
A great but exhausting day.
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