Swimming into the Forbidden Water Cave at Tham Chang Cave System in Vang Vieng, Laos

Watch me completely ignore common sense and every safety sign as I swim straight into the forbidden depths of Tham Chang Cave's underground river!

While cute Laotian girls splash around in the safe, designated swimming areas, I decide to channel my inner cave explorer and battle against the rushing current flowing out of this pitch-black limestone tunnel.

Joe Distler wisely stays poolside to document my questionable life choices as I struggle against Mother Nature's natural "NOPE, GO BACK" water system. The current is relentless, the cave gets darker with every stroke, and somewhere in the back of my mind I can hear my travel insurance company weeping.

This is what happens when "Do Not Enter" signs are merely treated as friendly suggestions rather than legal warnings. Spoiler alert: swimming upstream into a mysterious cave system is exactly as challenging and slightly terrifying as it sounds!