Palm Hills Golf Resort Cha-am

... under the red corner. All very jolly.

Loving Hua Hin - long, blonde beach (but not very wide at high tide), fantastic restaurants on piers/jetties over the sea, and an interesting view into the lives of the girlies (who work the girlie bars) from our balcon looking down into their private lives with their kids.

... enrichment to keep them physically and mentally active. For enrichment we gave a whole coconut, still with the husk on, to Oompoom, the solitary bear. It's true that the most simple enrichments are often the best! He started off by ripping off the husk with his long, strong claws, but he had trouble getting into the coconut after that. He tried repeatedly lifting it up high and dropping it on the ground, to no avail. Then he moved to a different area of his ...

... ice cream man there waiting for us. The ride back was spent looking for a second hand book shop but we only found a poor excuse for one with nothing to offer. The sun was really blazing down and our efforts to explore the back streets came to a halt at a shady bus stop where we waited in the shade to cool down. Decided to return the bikes and head for the pool for quick swim before packing as away tomorrow by taxi to ...

... with her. The attitude was just all upset. Not so much at the staff who left the cage open, because everyone makes mistakes and really it doesn't do any good to blame her, but more in general, that we're here to help and protect these animals that have mostly been severely abused and hurt before. That sort of pain and suffering isn't meant to happen here at all. It's what we're working against. Here, the goal is to take excellent care of the animals--keeping them ...

... into their main enclosures) is sometimes easy, like with the silly babies, and is sometimes really hard, with the stubborn adults. We try to bribe with bananas, threaten with a water hose, and sometimes need to get help from the Thai staff who yell words at them in Thai like BAI! which means go on, get. I yell it too, but the bears don't respect me the same way! Lugging around the cart of all the food is heavier, but a ...

... benches - Whoops! Fortunately after informing Kik (pronounced Gik - one of Dada's 'helpers' who amongst other things had helped with most of the paperwork for the trip, was learning how to teach the kids from the guys at Whispering Seeds and was generally the go to guy to get things done if you know what i mean) of our error and following a quick phone around to the other vehicles we discovered that one of the mothers had spotted it and picked it up. Phew - we ...

... stuff in your face and trying to speak english to you so you buy stuff. its entertaining. Now i have started school and everything is going pretty smooth just doesnt seem like i should be having to do work in the beautiful country. little stressful to catch the bus everyday at 8:15am and then stay on campus like all day. but there are plenty of people to hang with and good internet. Well that is a brief catch up to around now.

SUAN MOKKH Like - the location Dislike - the breakfast! Though food is not for intoxication. J Do Differently - I don't know you don't have to do much except meditate, walk, yoga, listen, and then meditate again. Transportation - took an over night bus to Surat Thani and the bus dropped me off at 430 in the morning outside the gates. Though I had to ask which was the gates. Then to go to Koh Phangan I took a bus to Surat Thani ...

... in the hospital with liver disease wasting away even as leroy had done before him and robert before that. there were others. i went with leroy to robert's funeral and with mark to leroy's funeral. where does it end? if you've worked hard all your life way up there in the cold countries and then you retire where it's warm all the time and you have nothing to do but to sit in the shade and ...