The Elephant Cave

These photo's were from our second cave expedition of the day, the Elephant cave. The cave itself is home to a temple, as many are . I guess it saves on building materials.
The reason it is "The Elephant Cave", is the stalagmite that looks profoundly like an elephant. Check it out. Cool huh.
Also the big foot print is Buddha's, yep, "Buddha" has size 207 feet.
Also it was right next to a field of Buffalow, from which our guide showed us exactly the right poo to get Magic Mushrooms from.
We weren't alone on the trek, there were two others, a couple from Brighton actually, small world huh. Anyway, at the beginning of the trek, the guy, forgotton his name, lost both sandals in the mud turning them into flip flops. He then had to trudge through the mud, in makeshift flip flops. Hehe. It was totally the most unlucky thing that happened that day. As we all got filthy in the mud our guide suggested we took our shoes off completley, only to feel the mud squelching up between our toes. Not a pleasant feeling.
After getting to the Elephant cave, we were knackered, had walked about 8 miles int he mud, to get to these caves, and was expected to go the exact same way back. Amy and I had opted for the tubing experience down the river back to our place, but the river had swollen so much that the government had put out warnings to the guide that we shouldn't do it for safety reasons. I was still up for it, but had no intention of maiming Amy on a tree or rapids or anything at all really. So I will say for her sake we didn't tube back, but we will definatley not turn down the option to do a bit of exteme tubing next time.
We got back to Vang Vieng and ate our dinner, with the unpleasant taste of fresh Buffalow Shit Mushrooms as an entree'.