Day 41 & 42/ 41. a 42. Den (14. -15. 03 2008)

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As we are not normal we have decided to go on another treck in this lovely warm weather, only this time elephants were involved, even that we had the choice to go by Tuk Tuk ( Tak Tak, as I Romi call it) we have taken the insanity route BICYCLES on not exactly flat road either ...15km later, drowning in our own sweat and without a breath we have arrived to catch a boat across the river to the Elephant Camp.

ELEPHANTS .... hurray... only Me Reni was bit anxious as what is going to happen to me now, I have fell of a horse, fell into water from kayak, what is going to be this time, felling of a elephant or being tread on by one... PASS!!

Elephant riding, it was cool, although there were times when we though we will have written in our Death Certificates - Cause of death: Smothered by Elephant.
Not to brake the tradition something did happen, to who else than Me Reni. I have received a beauty treatment - mud mask, which consisted of stale watter, mud and elephant dung.. lovely...

After lunch we went by boat to lovely waterfall and we have chosen the best time to see it - Dry season - so puddle it was... but still enough for us to have swim and it was so refreshing...and our first opportunity to take swimming trunks out.

Refreshed, off we went to take on the sun and the road to get to our overnight sleepover in one of the villages. The village itself was screaming with westernisation, and in our opinion there was not much true Lao culture left. The only true Lao was the children, especially playing with machete....We had wonder around the village and helped out to prepare our meal. Well we tried as we got constantly told off for our way of pealing runner beans.
The shower were the way we like them, laddle and tub with watter.
We have played card as were not very keen to go to the villages pre-wedding party.... but the inevitable happened and bit later Group was grooving on the dance floor with the locals.

And as another tradition go and Me Romi has to obtain some type of a harm, so I most probably got a mild sun-stroke and did not feel well.

Next day the sun was going crazy again, so after we have managed to get to our boat and then back to Mama's house it was "Take it easy, have banana time".


Protoze nejsme normalni, tak jsme se rozhodly v tomto hycu jit na dalsi turu. Tentokrat to bylo ze slony, a i prestoze jsme mohly jet Tuk Tukem (Tak Tak jak to Romca prejmenovala), tak nam asi hrablo a jely jsme na kolech. Cesta nebyla dvakrat rovna.... 15 km dale, topici se ve vlastnim pote a bez dechu jsme dorazily.
Nalodily jsme se a prepluly na druhy brech ke sloninu taboru.

SLONI .... huraaa... tentorkat jsem Ja Renca mela trochu obavy co se me stane, vzhledem k tomu, ze jsem spadla z kone, vypadla do vody z kajaku, tak co me ceka... spadnuti ze slona nebo zaslapnuti...OBEJDU SE!!

Jizda na slonovi, byla fajn, ikdyz byly chvile kdy jsme myslely ze nam na umrtnim listu bude vystaveno, pricina smrti : zalehnuta slonem.
A aby se neporusila tradice, ze se nam neco stane, a komu jinemu nez me Renci. Obrdzela jsme pletovou masku - bahnovou, ( slozeni?- bahno, mocalova voda a sloni trus)... nadhera...

Po obede jsme lodi dojely k nadhernym vodopadum a protoze jsme si vybraly nejlepsi sezonu, kdy je vydet - sucha sezona, tak to spise byla louze, ale bylo tam stale dost vody na to abychom si zaplavaly. Bylo to osvezujici a mely jsem moznost poprve vytahnout sve plavecke trenky.

Osvezeny jsme pokracovaly dale a Oskar (ta svine) nam na to pekne svitil. Dorazily jsme do vesnice, kde jsme prespaly. Vesnicka samotna byla velmi ovlivnena zapadem, mely jsme pocit, ze uz tu moc prave laoske tradice nebylo. Jedine co tam bylo autenticke byly laoske deti, nejlepe, kdyz si hraly z macetama...
Prosly jsme se vesnici a pak jsme pomohly pripravit veceri. No zkusily jsme to, protoze jsme byly buzerovany, ze spatne loupene zelene fazole.
Sprcha byla takova jakou mame radi, takova zviratkova, korytko a nadberacka.
Mastili jsme karty, protoze se nam velmi nechtelo jit na pred- svatebni oslavu... ale nevyhnutelne se stalo, a za par okamziku Skupina trsala z domorodci na parketu.

A jako vzdy, Ja Romca, ze me musi byti nejak ublizeno, jsme pravdepodobne dostala upal a nebylo me nejlepe.

Dalsi den Oskar zase silel, s tezi jsme se doplazily k lodi a pak zpatky k Mama House, bylo na case "Take it easy, have banana time".

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