Simply pleasant surroundings.

It rained. We waited. It stopped raining. We set off about 08:00.

This is a rough map of the cave. The tour has been set up with some French help.

The entrance is on the far side of the lagoon. That black hole.

There's evidence of a bit of sensible organisation which involves the local village.

There's the water, a sandbank, and the wall.

The first motor powered boats went through in about 2004.

First tourist exploitation was about 1995.

The turnaround time was taken up with bailing the boat while the happy tourists drank an orange juice.

There was a village to visit about a km away but the track was a bit muddy. We were happy with the cave.

This is the entrance.

I think I took them by surprise. They weren't smiling for the camera.

Everyone out! Walk for about 20m. Everyone in.

Meanwhile the boat was launched down a bumpy bit.

The job of the assistant.

This one was a container boat.

The white dots are splashes from the roof.

The orange bit is a 1,000,000 candlepower torch we'd carried all the way from Aus for just this occasion.

Apart from allowing us to see independently of the headlights of the crew it gave the camera something to focus on.

A fairly exciting 3 hours for the princely sum of 110,000 Kip (about A$13 for both of us).