In the Jungle
THEY REALLY LIVE LIKE IT
06.12.2007
Ok so i went elephant ridding, trekking, rafting and seen the tribal people and stayed in their houses for 3 days.
Day one we went a ride on elephants fro about one hour, which was great. Elephants are so lovely. I brought a big bunch of bananas to feed Nelly the elephant and they were gone with in the first 5 mins of the walk, he was so cheeky and if i did mot give him a banana he would walk up to the edge of the mountain until you give them one ha ha.
We then walked for about 3 hours in the rain forest to the first villi age, it was a pretty hard walk and most up hill but very energising with an amazing view.
There was a group of two Irish, two Ozzy's one Holland woman, 2 Germans, to from Brussels and one french Canadian. We all got along great and had some laughs.
The first night we stayed in a bamboo hut in a villi age where all natives are living day in day out its miles from anything and reaches -7 at about 4am. Blooming cold even with full clothes and 4 blankets it was freezing.
Second day here was a choice of a hard 3 hour walk again or a doss. I went for the doss with the Irish and one Ozzy ha pretty boring walk i had but we then got to the waterfalls absolutely freezing cold water. I jumped in fully clothed as i had forgoten to take a costume and the temperature and force of the waterfall was too much to take, i went in to some sort of panic attack, my feet could not touch the floor and i kept sinking and i could not breath, all good fun watching people get i the water though very refreshing. After all the excitement of waterfalls and what not, we then walked through the rain forest to another villiage, this one was set up especially for tourists and we stayed in the same sort of thing. We had a camp fire and a guitar which gt passed around throuout the night for some entertainment and beer just about all you need, oh and two Irish stoners who had a stash of weed that they smoked through a hand made bong.
Day 3 we walked to the rafting hut split the group in to two and jumped in a raft, there were some good parts on the water for rafting but mainly the water was calm, but it was good fun getting the other boats wet smashing the water with our paddles. (not much in writ ting mood sorry if sounds boring) we then got on a bambo raft and took a long strole down the river our guise kept making the bloody thing sink form side to side so we had a good swim in there too, soon dried of. Any way that's all really we drove back to Chain Mai and that's that. We all met up on the nights at a bar and went out until 4am had lots to drink and Good fun.
No more to tell. I'm now heading of to a place called Pia pronounce (bye) its got live music on every night, hot water spars its in the middle of rain forest with wooden huts for accommodation. So cant wait speak soon.
Posted by surman 20:11 Archived in Round the World | Thailand





