It started about 130m years ago. Mammoth colonies of corals lived and died their colorful lives just here. Speck after tiny speck of calcium hardened into a gaint hill undersea. The hill was happily under water, building calcium girth.

That was 75m years ago. Then Mama Earth discovered her fault one morning and decided to heave. The corals agonized and sprouted out as calcium hills.

Some of them decided to get funny.

For a five thousand years, the water level was 8ft above. It devoured the calcium hill, before it settled down at the current level. (That created the overhangs).

It merrily rained all year. The rain water took up its quota of calcium suppliments from the hills. Stalagmites they are.

Million year old calcium oozes from the bowels, and it is white as a lilly in the rain.

The emerald green water’s thirst for Calcium is never quenched. It eats up the underbelly of the hills, creating a maze of foot high grotto.

Lay low as the as you kayak and glide through another cavern.

As the kayak-man maneuvers, you await the treasures in the bright end. The contrast in the landscape befuddles…

Suddenly you smell the bats. Now you can feel their flutter. Flinch. Hold. But never move. Or you will end up with a bloody nose.

…for sheer limestone karsts jut out vertically from calm waters.

Then a hush of brown descends, casting a pall of gloom. Your heart sinks. And then as if to satisfy your last whim…

The landscape turns blue.

The hue of the sky, the gentle breeze, the ripple of the waves, the occasional call of a distant egret…

…all relax your shoulders. And remind you, how Amazing is Thailand. [Phang Nga Bay]