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The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park is located on the east coast of the southern peninsula of Thailand. Khao Sam Roi Yot is translated "Mountains of Three Hundred Peaks," an area of limestone hills and caves. The most beautiful cave in the region is named after Phraya Nakhon who discovered the cave by accident when he was traveling by ship and was forced ashore by a violent storm. Today you can still hire a boat from the village of Bang Pu 3/4 of the way or you can save the $7.00 round trip price and hike the steep winding 4 km trail up and down steep hills in 30 degree temperature to the cave entrance. I can see why it took a shipwrecked person to find this cave as no one would have accidentally found it hiking. My older brother Thomas was keen on the hike, and to our surprise set a hard to keep up to pace on our journey. After hiking one way to the cave we discovered that on the way back you can catch the boat for the half way trip back for $7.00, the same price as the round trip. I guess they figure after the hard hike to the cave you might cave and be willing to pay for the boat ride instead of hiking back. We hiked.

Aja's comment: I was just like Indiana Jones from the hat to swinging on vines.