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Walking with elephants
... br> PM: no chores! Just as we'd organised a group photo and walk the heavens opened. Typical!
Highlights:
Mud bath: Our job was to make the mud bath wet again so the elephants could easy bathe in it. We interpreted this as mud fight and dunk so within 5 mins the majority of the group was covered head to toe in mud (which of course consisted largely of elephant poo and wee). Sooo much fun, made more "entertaining" (debatable) by the fact that after ...
One night in Bangkok
Friday 16th November, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thailand is a popular tourist destination, and not without reason, this is also my second visit to Thailand. The first time what struck me is the general attitude of the people, being mainly Buddhist, the friendliness and relaxedness. This time we have a bit more time to look around Bangkok and we do the usual stuff: walk around, visit the temples, enjoy the street food and lovely diners, visit the ...
Walled City
... windy ride up a small mountain from Chiang Mai. My bike was an awesome orange Honda Wave 125cc semi-automatic that I fell in love with. We made a few bike adjustments and finished up our preparations for the trip. We set off with 3 bikes, Matt and our shared bag strapped on one, Andre and Nina on another, and their bag and myself on the third.
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The elephant at the end of the mountain
... hotel by 9:30, and we all huddled into two trucks for an hour or so long drive directly away from civilization. To give you an idea, these trucks are open air windows with benches along each side above the tire... because clearly having a back door or seatbelts is for chumps. After the hour drive, we stopped at a market in the middle of no where to all buy our last minute needs such as rain ponchos, torches (flashlights in American), bug spray (with so much deet that it ...
The mile high leech club..
... gather - think Roswell, Alamogardo ie UFO meets nuclear bomb testing country) has never seen country like this and is really digging it - I have seen rainforest many times in the Daintree/Cape Trib, but this is totally different action and Im captivated by the jungle vibe.
Anyways after about 7 km or so, (maybe more) of this, all uphill (and some reasonably steep) we at last find where we were supposed to start and are back on track! Now things get really groovy, ...
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