We woke up early so we could move our stuff to the new guest house, then it was off to scarf down some food and get picked up for the tour. After a while in a tuk-tuk we got to the Elephant cave, which was another shallow, but large cave used as a temple. We then hiked a bit through farm land and got to the water cave. This was really neat, we get in a tube, light on our head, and pull ourselves into a cave by rope. The roof of the cave at the beginning was barely a foot above us in parts, but once inside it opened up a bit. It was really neat to see. Eventually we needed to just propel our tubes with out arms instead of pulling at a rope, and in all we spent about an hour in there.

After some food, we drove down to where the water was deep enough and kayaked. There were some small rapids, just enough to make it fun, and then we were in the “bar area” of the river. I tried the trapeze jump and it was a lot of fun. Back into the boats, and a very tiring paddle down and we were done.

We met up with a Filipino woman who has been teaching English in China for the last 9 years while on the tour and so we invited her to join us for my birthday dinner. We didn’t have anywhere special in mind so after some showers we wandered around until we found a place. After some food we went “looking” for dessert. I say “looking” because Amy had found a place which had birthday cakes and had snuck out the night before to order me one. She guided us into “a place that might have something” and poof there it was. Very cool. I even got to have some Will Smith music playing when the cake was brought out.

At the place we met another Canadian girl and invited her to share in the cake. She sort of worked at the place (or was while she was in the area) and so we decided tomorrow we would rent scooters (at 4 bucks for a day) and try to see as many other caves (there are tons.)

Our new guest house ends up being on the other side of the river from a bar, and the noise was crazy all through the night, but we didn’t have all that much trouble sleeping through it.