Busarakham Phrae

... like hush of the two storey high atrium described as reception. We were courteously received by a beautifully dressed receptionist who clearly sees travel-stained westerners in crushed clothes carrying non-designer backpacks every day; not only was a double room available but she offered a 200B discount. We were whisked up ten storeys to our eyrie overlooking the whole Phrae valley; the view was worth 700B and the room was up to scratch as well. Well, nearly but I ...

... him it was strange that I was only apprehensive of this animal that was capable of stampeeding at any minute!). At the first stop we didn't buy the nelly any bananas and it seemed to get a bit agitated. Tommy thought that was it and we'd made it angry so at the next stop we bought loads of bananas and sugar cane and Tommy nervously fed the elephant at 2 minute intervals until be got off! We also visited some tribe people and ...

... a signboard saying "elephant hospital" and I couldn't help myself to stop to go see what can be an elephant hospital and what it looks like...This was the high of the day and very interesting. There was an elephant that just gave birth to a 5 year old weighing 70 kg...and apparently it can go up to 100kg. Basically a small baby is born my weight and a big baby is born my father's weight! (Je rigole ...

... which we all agreed was the best place to eat at - you could choose from just about any dish you could think of!! A little shopping afterwards, following which me, Marty and Pete decided to pay a visit to a local Thai kickboxing event - an italian kickboxer was one of the fighters for the night, who Marty had heard of, and we were assured by Marty it would be worth seeing. That particular fight was quite good, but the others were a little tame - where's the ...

... 2 nuits au Parc National de Doi Inthanon. Le guide va nous ramener directement a la station de train d'ou on va repartif pour Bangkok. Notre vol pour le Vietnam (Bangkok-Hanoi) est le 8 juillet et nous n'avons pas encore recupere nos billets. Alors voila! En gros c'est ca! Je vous donne des nouvelles bientot! Je vous aime daudish xxxxx p.s. Pour ceux que ca interesse, mon stage en sante-voyage a ete accepte a la clinique de laval en periode 1 ...

... wana pay.. its a game that u have to play with every stall... by the 3rd hour.. i mustve jus crackd the ***** at one of the women... We then decided it was time to go home! Day 3!! Gona make this short and sweet me getting hungry..We went on a safari tour! our first stop was to the Orchid farm... uhm yea.. flowers..! Lol, we then went to the elephant camp to watch a show they had put on.. never underestimate elephants... they can perform tricks like dance, play footie ...

... they know that the "missionaries" Eugene (Gene) Long and his wife, Mary, who moved there over twenty years ago stopped being missionaries after their second year with the tribe because they did not feel that the traditional "church and steeples" missionary work was what the Mlabri needed. Further, the editors would not know that there are actually between 280 and 350 Mlabri instead of the "possibly as few as 150" they published. Maybe, quite maybe ...

... station and we caught our bus just in time. Unfortunately our friend Sara wasn't as lucky. She had a mis-communication problem with her taxi driver and missed the bus! We were able to sell her ticket though two minutes before the bus departed. She caught an early morning bus the next day. Dane and Justin picked us up with a friend of theirs at the bus station and took us to a hotel. Even though the town is ...

... t even listen to me ! Ok so they ended up in this last village where people didn't understant what kind of "devil's machines" they were driving as the path through the mountain was supposed to be taken only by pedestrians all the way to the other side of the mountain. "Well, the persistant knight said, we've reached this point now, i don't see myself going back and miss this beautiful opportunity !", "You know ...

... hotel and dropped off our bags, we set off on foot to see some of the temples and old teak mansions. Every temple we went to, the main hall was locked, and if it had a museum it was padlocked as well. The one teakwood mansion I wanted to visit, Vongburi House, was closed for renovation. People were working hard outside stripping paint from the teak wood. Luckily we did find one place that was open to public, a beautiful mansion that was an ex-governor's residence ...