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| More adventures in Krabi |
| 03.30.04 (5:52 am) [edit] |
More AdvVEnTures in Krabi....
DAY 8
The Princess Cave Beach becomes my favorite beach by day. Go past the 123 Climbing Wall down a monkey-ridden path that opens up to the Princess Beach. Stare in awe of the rock formations- like millions of roots and sinews and veins and such tangling shooting up and down hanging, tipping up, dripping crystals - reds blues browns grays greens... all around you hanging above you as you float on your back and imagine you are being born again like limestone in motion, just in imitation of the frozen growth the shoreline hails about you. Hundreds of all different sized wooden penises that fisherman have carved for good luck in the sea sit all around in the nooks of the caves by this beach. The penises are dressed in colored scarves and are surrounded by candles, jasmine flowers and the like..
PRincess Sri Guladevi's ship wrecked off of the shore of this beach and her soul, fed by the wisdom and power of many past lives, to this day brings good luck to those who notice and visit her. The overhangs of what they call her summer home there are incredible, stalactites imitating the seed planting the wooden phali wish they could achieve as well...I bouy on the rolling emerald- jade water and stare for long times at the guts, a beautiful little blue pterodactyl head-shaped bird visits one of the drippy stalactites and we ask the Princess to stay longer...
There are other places where the Princess is supposed to inhabit. We did a small upclimb to try to reach one of her dwellings - The Princess Lagoon. Amanda, Erin, and Zac got a very very little taste of the type of crazy untamed jungle climbs we have been through in Malaysia.They saw the Achilles tendon tree that loves to make us look like less than ants. We had to go through a steep rope guided orange mudslidey way and some fears surfaced to be dealt with..
Even in the littlest thing your fears emerge. Your comfort zones and your dependency on them arise so much out here. -- And the best and worst of people's weaknesses and strengths must be faced physically at these moments. And our mental wall games are challenged--and we learn the walls we erect that try to fortify fear and justify old habits might not be as great as the gold bricks we lay our walls with-especially when we see we've laid walls in places where perhaps we should have made door and window frames....
more on the princess caves later.. gotta run...
Much love and peace ... Andrea
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