A magic cave

Near Thong Pha Phum, 26 Febr. 2014.

This cave is like magic and too much of a temptation not to give in to, though I can quite easily make it to Kanchanaburi before nightfall the irrefusable urge to spend the night here is just overwelming...

I am not all tat unaccustomed to caves filled to overflow with Buddha statues in Thailand - or Laos - that as always remind me that according to Lord Buddha, the Greatest of mankind, we only inhabit our bodies temporarly and should therefore by comfortable in our here-and-now abodes...still when opportunities arise I grasp them together with Hong Thong whiskey I ussually refer to as Honky Tonky whiskey and often as Ting Tong whiskey - the Thai word for NUTTY - this cave should not be turned down as an overnight abode for the here and now coming night, campfire and cooling down Khao Pad Khung from a nearby roadside restaurant will contribude possitively to the fun, and I don't mean HIV possitively, after all no girlie-bar from here to high heaven around so Pas De Danger there...neither do I have any intention to get intimately familair with the many Thai monkeys around this humid hole in the Karststone jungle clad mountains...

Apart from countless  Buddha statues, every nook and ridge is filled up with plastic figurines from the Comic book department as well as anything imaginable in the minds of Hollywood film producers, over a hunderd various toys all facing each other like armies in some Roman war film, GI Joes waiting for Vietnamese King-Kongs, Superman squared off against his Numero Uno mate from the Justice Leaque Batman, A red and blue dressed Spiderman locked in frozen comat with a dozen Starwars figures, the kicker Yoda doll, a full thirty centimeters tall, included which somehow gives me the impression my old childhood pal/hero with the red and blue piyamas might be in for his ultimate demise here, size might matter here but Mister Yoda is not on the dark side after all...beware, beware...

bamboo pole ladders in the back of the cave point to several more layers of the comic plastic universe of superhero Ting Tong magic but being out of a torch and scared of the Thai spirit world makes me decide not to push my luck though wondering seriously whether or not how many floors this cave really goes up, maybe as many as the Bangkok highrises but without storey thirteen, the unlucky number and always excluded in Thailand's skyscrapers...as a matter of fact rumour has it Bankok building companies ship all their thirteenth floors off to arch enemies in the regio like Cambodya and Burma hence these countries unfortunate histories...an egocentric way of foreign aid I guess...