After a quick breakfast of rice porridge, toast and tea we headed for the first national park of the day, Tat Ton. Like Sai Thong, Tat Ton’s only attraction for the casual visitor is another rather average waterfall. But we were determined to hit all the national parks in the area, so off we went and by 0800 we were in the park and had trekked to the waterfall.
The sun was in the wrong place, the waterfall was not exactly stunning, and after a while I had had enough.
But Nik reckoned that if he crossed the river and climbed up some particularly treacherous looking rocks, he might get some better shots from the other side. Normally this is not something I would worry about, but Nik has a crumbling back and has recently had metal scaffolding screwed to his vertebrae and is meant to be taking it easy. Of course he doesn’t, and too much exercise and too much shagging means he is constantly in pain, and a fall on some rocks would do him no good at all; and me neither as I would have to extract him from wherever he fell.
So I sat and said little prayers to the god of surefootedness and eventually he could be seen on the other side, Didn’t get any good photos though.
By 0900 we were leaving the park and on our way to the last park of the trip, soon we would be heading home. But this is Thailand, and little did we know we were about to endure several hours of frustration in the search for Phu Lan Ka, the Stonehenge of Thailand.
To be continued.