Riding Elephants and Laos
Trip Start
Jan 22, 2008
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Trip End
Mar 21, 2008
Luang Prabang,
Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Friday, February 29, 2008
We went on a trek yesterday and it was unreal. First things first we rode on elephants, like on their back, and some people on their head. Crazy, I know. And they were HUGE. Ours was cool, the one behind us was a brat though. He kept putting up his trunk and as,king the lady riding him for a banana, so she'd feed him one (that was cool actually they like reach up and take it outta your hand and throw it into their mouth with their trunk...but their trunks are sick and if you dont feed them they snot on you and ....gross) and anyway it would eat it and just go right back and ask for another one, and it wouldn't walk if she didn't feed him. When she ran outta food the elephant starting poking me on the arm with his trunk and begging me for food...it was pretty funny so I took pictures of it. Those things are like tanks, they go over EVERYTHING. Very cool.
Next we trekked for like 2 hours, which is basically hiking, and stopped @ this super nice water fall that looks like something out of a TV commerical or a movie where there are like 3 good looking people swimming under a water fall lol you know?? Maybe not....ANYWAY. Then we ate lunch and went bamboo rafting. It was sweeet cause 2 ppl sit down in the middle and 2 have to paddle and we were with guys so we made the guys paddle and we just sat down. As we were floating down the river there were elephants and stuff on the side of the river just chillin and so we decided it was like that movie the Jungle Book. I asked where Mogli was, and we realized he was likely the Thai dude that was paddling. Cammy pointed out that Mogli has grown up. This is true.
Anyway we did pretty good except for when we tipped the raft and I fell half way in and wasn't wearinga n bathing suit, good times.
All in all a VERY cool Trek, not to be missed.
Then we caught a plane to Luang Prabang in Laos (whicn is where we are noW) and now we're here and i've never seen anything so beautiful in my entire life, ever! It's insanely gorgeous...It's completely indescribable. Laos is kinda like a 3rd world country and it's really poor and really sad. The average income here is $400 a year...alot of people are starving and dying and it's really kinda depressing.
Anyway we went to this restaurant called Laos Loas Garden for supper and ate some really effing good food and drank some 2 for 1 coctails (which made them $1 each and they were STRONG!). And delicious. One had coconut milk, vodka, leom juice and sugar and it tasted like a big delicious coconut that got yo drunk really fast haha. Anyway we made a freind named Terry from England and he's really hot so we all got a little tipsy and hung out @ that place and it was really fun!
Today we're guna check out this mountain and some caves, which should be tedious because it's pouring rain...got damnit..and it's cold, like 10 degrees outside. Yeah sorry to rub it in. But that IS cold when all you packed is shorts and tank tops!!
