点评:Wake up at 3:00am to line up for the tribal reserve forest gate to open at 6:00am. An easy 1-2 hour wait in your car. Then drive through a very pretty forest to get to the ferry. A vehicle and passenger combined ferry where the humans go as packed sardines!!! It is the slowest ferry ride just to get to the other side. Govt operated vessel with no seating or safety. You stand along with the cars inside the ferry, almost on top of each other and hope no one pushes you out of the ferry! It is like traveling in Mumbai locals. Once on the other side, get on a speed boat (a regular one, not glass fibre ones as they are not allowed any more but the association doesn’t want to remove the description) to travel on the same route as the ferry. Why can’t the speed boat get you from the other side? Govt vs private tussle so let’s make it arduous for the travellers! After the harrowing 6 hours you finally get to see the 90 seconds mangroves and then the trek to the limestone caves. The trek is nothing to write home about and the caves are a joke. Then you do the whole journey back the same way to get back to sanity. A 12-13 hr day for 30 mins of trek and caves - NOT WORTH IT. They are fleecing travelers there with incorrect information about glass fibre boats and unnecessary travel hassles. With kids? Be prepared for washroom troubles, food hassles. We were prepared but it still doesn’t take away the hassle you have to endure and with no gratifying moments in the end, it just seems like a self inflicted torture!
翻译:凌晨三点起床,排队等候部落保护区森林大门六点开放。开车轻松等上一两个小时。然后驱车穿过一片风景优美的森林,到达渡口。这是一艘载客车辆混乘的渡轮,人挤人,就像沙丁鱼罐头一样!这是最慢的渡轮,到达对岸也极其费劲。政府运营的船只没有座位,也没有任何安全措施。你只能和汽车一起站在船舱里,几乎是肩并肩,祈祷没人把你推出船外!这感觉就像在孟买坐本地火车。到了对岸,再换乘快艇(普通快艇,不是玻璃纤维快艇,因为玻璃纤维快艇已被禁止使用,但协会不愿删除相关描述),沿着与渡轮相同的路线行驶。为什么快艇不能直接送你到对岸呢?政府和私人企业之间的斗争,所以就故意刁难旅客!经过六个小时的煎熬,你终于看到了那短暂的红树林,然后开始徒步前往石灰岩洞穴。这段徒步之旅乏善可陈,洞穴更是令人失望。之后,你还得原路返回,才能恢复理智。耗费12-13个小时,只为了30分钟的徒步和洞穴参观——简直不值得!他们用关于玻璃纤维船的错误信息和不必要的旅行麻烦来坑骗游客。带孩子出行?做好应对洗手间和食物问题的准备吧。我们虽然有所准备,但这仍然无法减轻旅途中的种种不便,而且最后没有任何值得回味的体验,简直就像是自虐!