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Loving Chiang Mai
Hello from Chiang Mai. We are having such fun here. I absolutely love this city. Our train ride was a full seventeen hours long...as long as it took me to fly to Thailand from Los Angeles...but we did get some sleep and arrived safely. Our guest house, Baan Kaew, is lovely and very clean and peaceful, the people working there are very, very nice …
Trekking in the Jungle - OMG!
... Farm at Ban Pa Kha . Quite a hard trek for me as most of it was quite difficult terrain and uphill. All was going well and I was actually feeling quite pleased with myself, until Sore Paw mentioned THE BRIDGE!. What bridge says me? That (rather dilapidated) construction up ahead that will lead you across the river – if you’re lucky! WHAAAT? John saw it before me and his first thoughts: “she’s never going to ...
I Do Hope We Get A Small Elephant....
... us. The two elephants are a couple (awwww) but at 10 and 12 they are still too young to mate. This small fact and the assembled audience does not stop the young male from having a go though. It's hard to be polite and not look when 'cassonova nellie' is wafting his elephant sized dong about! We all laugh and the tension eases a little bit. As Sumit demonstrates the commands and how to mount/dismount without falling off - it's a long way down off the top of an elephant - ...
Goodbye Chiang Mai
And so this is it - the last blog from Chiang Mai. Do I hear a collective sigh of relief that there will be no need to suffer through more blogs? Actually we haven't finished quite yet. We are about to embark on an 8 week extravaganza, so there will be plenty more to read about before we get home.
Meanwhile, after listening to the children talk about England and how they have missed their friends, cousins, grandparents, the dog, the last remaining guinea pig, the ...
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk...
... of cold brown river water over me. Luckily, the elephants are much friendlier and enjoy our ‘bath’, some of them even joined in themselves, showering us all with a trunk-full of water!
Our next activity was supposed to be watching a film about how the Elephant Nature Park came about and how it helps and why it is important. But, about 20mins into it we had a powercut. And there was no reserve power. So, instead, our group were able to visit the ...