The day after the first tour we went on another tour where we got to have a private driver and explore one of Vietnam's nature parks.
Our first stop on our private tour was the cave of pre-historic man's cave. We had to hire a torch to go in because the cave system went on for EVER, it was pitch black once you got further in.. As we entered we thought we had been scammed for the torches because all we could see was a big hollow in a mountain, we then saw a keen little girl scurry out from under a huge stalagmite. We found the way around this stalagmite then saw (with the help of our torch) lots and lots of small red dots which we all agreed, must be iron, pushed down from the water dripping through the ceiling (on the way back out of the cave we thought we saw a small bit of silver on the roof of the cavern but ,unfortunately, could not pick it off).
As we went through the caves I saw a small iron deposit on the rock, so decided to pick it off but almost touched... a weta! (for those of you who have not seen a weta before, they look like this:
*uuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!! it's a bug!!!* these small bugs are native to New Zealand or so we thought before we saw this specimen).
So yeah... unless we saw some type of mutant cockroaches they obviously live elsewhere than NZ.
After a short time walking we found an old, rusty ladder that lead up,vertically, so ,naturally, we climbed up (well mum and Lockie didn't) and (no it was not a giant slater at the top!) saw... (no the ladder definitely did NOT brake at that moment) another impressive cavern with nothing much inside except bat poop. We went back down the ladder and joined mum and Lockie (the wusses) again.
Next we went to a monkey rehabilitation center. We saw some monkeys that had not yet been eaten by hungry human beings (well what else did you think we'd see? Aliens?!). After them (it took about 1/2 an hour) we went to see the turtle conservation center (Bruno called this the turtle conversation center) I usually like turtles but at this place, in the searing heat, you had to find the right language on the signs (that's all there was) and also burn in the heat.
We had had a boat trip through a valley planned but it turned out that if we went for a boat ride (3 hours) we would miss our night bus and that would not be good. The night bus (which I really enjoyed) is a bus filled with beds. We're headed for Nha Trang , the city on the beach.
As we went through the caves I saw a small iron deposit on the rock, so decided to pick it off but almost touched... a weta! (for those of you who have not seen a weta before, they look like this:
*uuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!! it's a bug!!!* these small bugs are native to New Zealand or so we thought before we saw this specimen).
After a short time walking we found an old, rusty ladder that lead up,vertically, so ,naturally, we climbed up (well mum and Lockie didn't) and (no it was not a giant slater at the top!) saw... (no the ladder definitely did NOT brake at that moment) another impressive cavern with nothing much inside except bat poop. We went back down the ladder and joined mum and Lockie (the wusses) again.
Next we went to a monkey rehabilitation center. We saw some monkeys that had not yet been eaten by hungry human beings (well what else did you think we'd see? Aliens?!). After them (it took about 1/2 an hour) we went to see the turtle conservation center (Bruno called this the turtle conversation center) I usually like turtles but at this place, in the searing heat, you had to find the right language on the signs (that's all there was) and also burn in the heat.
We had had a boat trip through a valley planned but it turned out that if we went for a boat ride (3 hours) we would miss our night bus and that would not be good. The night bus (which I really enjoyed) is a bus filled with beds. We're headed for Nha Trang , the city on the beach.
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