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A view of the same village from further away so you can see the size of the mountains in the background.
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Drying off on the dock after our swim!
best + chieow laan lake
Check out the totally jungley mountains in the background. Can you believe that this place actually exists in the world? Even though I was there, every time I see these pictures I'm like "What? That place can't be real!"
best + chieow laan lake
...WE WENT SWIMMING! Hahahaha. Check out the action shot of Mer jumping in for the first time.
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...ta-da! And we've arrived! Turns out these raft houses were build by the locals and you can totally rent them out and vacation in them!
best + chieow laan lake
...we spotted a series of floating raft houses built along side the edge of the island (which pretty much looked like someone had dropped the top of a mountain into the middle of a lake).
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Then we rounded a corner and what we thought was the other side of the lake turned out to be an island in the middle of the lake! We entered a cove of some sort and then a couple of minutes later...
best + chieow laan lake
The guy at our hostel highly recommended the tour of the lake and I took his word without asking him to go into too much detail about what we'd be doing on the tour. Around this time we'd be driving across the lake for almost an hour and we were starting to wonder if the whole tour was going to be spent on the boat.