Phung Chang Cave - Elephant Cave is something that at that spot is not a lot written about.
At the front end of the cave at that spot is a long route leading to a temple - lovely surroundings.
At the side is a long wooden terrace - non genuinely something to photograph or write abode about!
At this indicate yous are kitted out amongst with a caput lite together with a torch...
Walking downward some steps yous come upwardly across a give away of smaller Wats in front end of a big cave entrance.... The stalagmites together with stalactites laissez passer on the most amazing sites equally yous motility into (carefully) in.
It was at this indicate that I was told that nosotros were non allowed to accept a photograph! Why?
"Tham Phung Chang is a cavern on Khao Chang or Chang Hill (Elephant Hill) within Phangnga Municipility. The Cave has ii entrances, 1 on the West together with 1 on the Eat of the hill, within Wat Tham Pung Chang. The cave houses beautiful stalagmites together with stalactites of diverse shapes, equally good equally contains sparkling calcite crystals on some parts of it's wall. H5N1 current flows through the cave all yr circular amongst deep H2O inwards some parts. The distance from 1 entrance to the other is unopen to 1,200 metres.
According to legend, Yomdung, a wanderer, sought refuge at Chongdong's house. The dyad moved out of the solid to constitute their ain family, earning living yesteryear farming. Towards the halt of the harvest season, a herd of wild elephants trampled their crops. Disappointed together with infuriated, Yomdung got a pike together with pursued the herd. He encountered an elephant that belonged to a homo called 'Ngum', mistook it for for the 1 inwards the wild herd, speared the brute to popular off through it's belly, gutted it an cooked the guts for nutrient together with lso cutting the tusks - unaware of the animal's innocence.
The dead elephant became Chang Hill together with the speared belly became 'Tham Phung Chang', the elephant belly's cave.
This was written on a board.
The cave length is close 1,200 metres together with yous commencement motility into on human foot together with are swiftly set onto the canoes. Carefully canoeing along yous hold back everywhere together with equally yous are told yesteryear your guides the shapes are genuinely the shapes of animals - I am real lucky having a Thai married adult woman equally she was able to interpret everything for me!
This made me affair of the oddness - what would the caves hold back similar on film? Despite this nosotros were taken inwards yesteryear the atmosphere together with I did non heed inwards the slightest... Then at that spot was a raft - instantly this was a fiddling scary to tell the to the lowest degree together with I was glad that I was non trying to accept photographs....
Returning was easier. Leaving the canoes was a relief...
We together with thus left a dissimilar agency on human foot walking yesteryear a Buddha footprint where nosotros left some coin - nosotros don't consider many of these.
