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Elephants, villagers and nature oh my...
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Hellllloooo...alright so we left Chiang Mai and went to the Elephant training camp [which isn't as bad as it sounds] In fact I was rather curious about the state of the elephants and they are actually treated considerably well...
They do a show or 2 in the morning for tourists to raise money for food, etc. and for the rest of the day they are free to frolic and sleep in the jungle and they come back on their own in the mornings...there are 38 elephants there and they drink 150 litres of water each and many many kilograms of food [half their weight or something like that...] The show was quite nice...the elephants were showing their skills, then after we went to play with a 5 month old baby and he was adorable, he kept trying to play with us, the mother too [we fed her some bananas]...
Later on in the day, we went to some sacred caves, we went about 600 metres in and it was quite eery...there's a buddha statue and 2 other smaller one's, that you pray to depending on whether you want a boy or a girl...since I'm so eager to have children, I prayed hard...no totally kidding... After the caves we went to visit the Karen tribe, and we saw how they lived and as soon as we got off the truck we were surrounded [literally there was about 10 women, we could've played a soccer game...] by local tribeswomen trying to sell us stuff...they didn't really take no for an answer [maybe they're secretly Italian] and all they'd say is hello! 10 Baht...over and over and over again...like robots...it was quite crazy...
Then we took a walk through the forest for about an hour and eventually we arrived at the Palong village where we would be spending the night...I think that that's about as close to camping as I'll ever get...we stayed in a big hut [square shaped though, not round] with a raised floor for all the beds and with 6 mosquito nets set up, it was surprisingly comfortable...the bathroom is a whole in the floor, but I must say the squat toilets are growing on me...they're far cleaner after all... The shower was a giant bucket of water, with a scoop bowl in it to spray yourself... in the evening, the village kids put on a show for us... Then we hit the sack cuz I was toast!!
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