Park and Ride

Yesterday we rented this awesome orange hog (see below) and rode for two hours from Krabi Town up to a wildlife preserve where there's this gorgeous emerald-green pond made from underground hot springs (the water mixes with cold water on the way up, so the pool is quite refreshing). The water just leaks right out of the rocks and collects in this amazing pool. The walks around there were nice, but we hardly got to see any of it because we wanted to get home before it was dark. We failed in this attempt because it started to rain pretty hard before we made it back and we had to stop at a construction yard where there was shelter (and several other riders taking refuge!). The park is the only lowland forest park in all of southern Thailand, and the scenery was quite stunning. Today we're going out to the tiny island of Koh Jum, just south of Krabi, where we'll hopefully have our own beach. We'll keep you posted...

-mike