One of the days in Hpa-An we visited a local cave. Both Burma & Thailand are infamous for taking beautiful, beautiful places and covering them in gold and concrete for temples. This was in some ways the same: we arrived to a temple and walked through a lot of gold, some blinking LED lights, and other things I might personally label “gaudy.” I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The cave was absolutely incredible, though. We walked about a mile underground, up and down through this ginormous cave.
The end of the cave opened up into a beautiful lake that fed into the rice paddies. There were long tail boats waiting that you could hire to paddle you across the lake, through another cave, and down through the rice paddies.
This was probably my favorite part of our trip! It was stunningly beautiful, and long tail boats always feel whimsical! It’s the Burmese version of a gondola on it’s way through Venice.
