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More Trekking with Elephants and Hill Tribes
Day 1 - Entering the Country
Given the price of the ticket had decided against trying to get transport all the way through and try to use the local bus rather than a mini van for one. Up early since I wanted to get an early boat and get across the border. Couldnt start too early though since needed immigration to be open.
Upon waking …
Boats & buses
We were sad to leave Laos, we loved it so much! Got on a 2 day slow boat trip up the Mekong River which was breathtaking scenery. The boat stopped overnight in a transit town which was over run with backpackers when the boats arrived. Everyone was scrambling for rooms, and what was available wasn't pretty... we ended up sneaking out of our shady $1 …
Thunder Storms In Chiang Rai
Get up at 7am, had our free breakfast and head to the dock to catch the boat over to Thailand. Best one yet, super laid back, no hassle, easy! We get our 15 day visa stamped and we are through into Thailand. We jump in a tuk tuk headed for the bus station and watch another tuk tuk drive straight through parked motorbikes and up a wall. The driver …
Day 305: Gibbon Experience - Day 3
As discussed last night, four people woke up at 4:30am to hike up to where gibbons might be. They were talking about singing a birthday song for me at 4:30am last night. Indeed they did! Yes it was my 31st birthday today and this gibbon experience was actually my birthday treat! I said 'thanks' to everyone and went back to sleep…
Far beyond anything I could have imagined...
... we were encouraged to make our way over, we got in the jeep and were taken, by Jerry, a short way across the road and dropped off at the entrance. We weren't sure what we were going to see in the time we had left but figured we were here now, so to make the most of it. We had to walk through a very poorly lit, long and very strange hallway which then opened out, brightly light, in the far corner was an example of an opium field and to our immediate right was the auditorium. ...