Day 61: Doi Inthanon National Park
Trip Start
Sep 21, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 01, 2007
Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
There is even less trekking to be done today, and we don't ascend the promised Doi Inthanon mountain. Still, beside the river and through banana plantations, it is most scenic.
We're driven to the Wang river for a half hour led downstream on a bamboo raft. It dips underwater over the mild rapids. Then, we're put aboard elephants for a patrol around fields of sugar cane. The elephants help themselves to the crop when we're not spending 20 baht on 'Food to give the elephants pleasure'.
In the evening, back in Chiang Mai, I join our merry band of Canucks and Germans for a stomach-soothing pizza and hunt for a bar not offering football, pool and female companionship. Instead we are interrupted by more hill-tribe women and their interminable frog toys, and another elephant wanting to be fed.
