The plan was to find Tham Than Nam Lot Noi from Martin’s list and we reached the vicinity without too much trouble. Tham Nam Lot was also on the list for that area but with no real details of location etc. so we intended to search for this later.
We saw a sign for a cave off the road (“Tanlod Cave”) pointing down a concrete road. At the end of the road was a path down to a large cave entrance. We thought that this may be Tham Nam Lot as the little description that we had matched, so we got changed and went to explore. The cave has a stream running into it and a lot of flood debris around the entrance chambers. The stream soon hit the dipping cave roof in a choked (with flood debris) duck. There is a bypass of this duck and soon we were into a larger river passage. We followed the stream for a few metres before reaching a large, deep, pool with bamboo fishing rods around it. The cave passage turned to the right and the stream flowed into another large pool. We crossed the waist deep stream and walked down the sandbank at the side of the second pool. The cave turned slightly left but we were stopped by a deep, “swimming” streamway. Could the cave continue round the corner? With just the two of us, we decided to play safe and not start swimming – the cave will still be there for another day. We surveyed the cave back to the entrance and when we got out there were a lot of locals around with some small boys swimming in the pool at the cave entrance.
We drove down to Surat Thani (2 hours) and booked into a hotel on the outskirts of town.
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