An early rise for me at Raft House 3

Some others are also up already

The latest addition to this Raft House: some tents, they were pitching these yesterday

Looks idyllic, right?

But turn your head a bit to the right and see the less idyllic part where the Thai crew is housed

We go for another wildlife trip on the boats, this time we go closer to the shore

And indeed! We see a monkey at the waterfront, I guess it went there to drink, or wash?

Another monkey somewhere in the trees

Sunlight is slowly getting over the mountains

Another boat looking at another monkey

We’re boating around a bit

So far we’ve seen a handful of monkeys

Including this one with what looks like her young

A last look at what remains of some trees

And we turn around and head back

We see some birds

Almost back at the Raft House, some others used their time to go kayaking in one of the available kayaks

Breakfast! Pancakes! My favourite!

We’re about to leave

Yesterday, because we arrived 1.5 hours later than all the others, we missed visiting Khao Sam Kler, I spoke to the Thai crew and demanded we (our group) would visit it today instead, they agreed, now we’ll have to see if they keep their word, we’re on our way east here, at least that’s in the right direction

The area is really beautiful

Ah, this is it! This is Khao Sam Kler! Cool! Wouldn’t want to have missed this

Yay!

We’re back!

We drove from the marina to the Chiew Larn Lake View Point and were given this terrible lunch (with fish sauce)

Since I’m not having my lunch I walk around a bit and take some photos of the lake

Statue of someone

I sent up the drone again, hoping I would not be caught

Clear view of the Rajjaprabha Dam

Statue again and me hiding somewhere in the photo

The dam to my east

It’s a lovely viewpoint here, bit of a breeze, some shade, most welcome

Cool tree roots

Last view at the lake! Bye lake, nice meeting you

I will stay the night in Khao Sok, itself, the village, on booking.com I find that everything is rather expensive here, the only affordable place is here, in a tent on a raised platform, I decide to give it a try, I mean, I like camping so why not? I’m about to send up my drone here, more in the video lower down the page

The tent, the platform isn’t great, lots of big holes underneath that are covered (up) by those carpets. I really needed to have the fan going, it’s soooo hot here

Some drone photos of the area I am in, stunning!

The resort I’m staying at

I bought some snacks at a local shop in the village and noticed a cute cat so I bought some cat food in the shop and gave it to the cat, she loved it!