SO if you ever find yourself in Northern Thailand, you must must must go on a trek into the jungles...we just did a 3 day tour and it was absolutely incredible! Lots of hiking in the hot weather, but it's balanced with visits to waterfalls and swimming areas, elephant rides, and crazy bamboo rafting down the river...Claire and I challenged the two dutchman on our raft (9 bamboo poles tied together!) to a water joust if you will, and only fell in the water 5 times...each. We had a great group to travel with and a really fun guide (named Kiki), conversations were entertaining as everyone is translating from English to French to Dutch...very educational! OH, and we had a Thai Massage at one of the camps...it was so very luscious after a day of hiking...divine...you just have to get used to a little lady tugging on your arms and using her foot to massage you! AND we played soccer in a village with some locals and got our butts handed to us on a platter...and they weren't even wearing shoes...very fancy foot work indeed. We're in Chiang Mai for 2 more days, this city is well known for the shopping, and I've been giving my debit card some very good exercise....when in Thailand...
Before we left Bangkok, we did a day trip to the Bridge over the River Kwai (the movie is now on my to do list), the amazing floating market (the traffic was like India, but in boats), and the tiger temple (Tigers that are raised by Buddhist Monks from birth so they are extremely docile and apporachable by humans), which was bittersweet because I played with some baby tigers, but they had the grown adults on chains in the "tiger Canyon" and they didn't look too happy.
Food is fantastic, meeting lots of fun people, Claire and I haven't killed each other yet...it's all good in this hood.
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