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A long, well-lit show cave near Ratchaburi threading through a series of named chambers full of dramatic stalactites and flowstone formations — cool, quiet, and easy to walk.
A vast river cave you float through on a bamboo raft by lantern light, past stalactite chambers, ancient teak coffins on high ledges, and a dusk sky that fills with hundreds of thousands of swifts pouring in to roost.
Every evening at dusk, an unbroken river of millions of wrinkle-lipped bats pours from a cliff cave beside this Ratchaburi temple for nearly an hour — one of the great wildlife spectacles of central Thailand.