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BATIC ART
The steady hand.... Not to rest on our laurels the very next day following on from our jungle trek we opted for an activity a little more relaxing, we decided to take part in a Batic Art class. This is an old Thai art, a form of drawing with very hot wax on a fabric (Hot wax burns off hairs on your arms very very quickly. Trust me). Was a great day to some something different and it was like being a child again, Just spent the day colouring inside the lines of the drawings (A steady hand I am not!) We came away with some great pieces of art which we are going to sell on the street for a good price of 3 euro. The course cost 15 euro!!! (Marketing genius' we are not!)
That evening we ended up meeting some Canadian friends that we had earlier crossed paths with and after a few too many drinks we were out for the night drinking and talking to a baby elephant in the street. I kid you not! (Unless it was just the alcohol while I was actually only talking to a post box or something??) Nope, it was real; I
BATIC ART
I likes to draw.... have been assured by Gemma who spent ages talking to the very same baby elephant. We managed a tuk-tuk home at some hour in the morning before collapsing into bed and the following day was a chill out day, nothing but relaxing and eating with a nap thrown in for good measure.
This was followed by an all-day Thai cooking course. We visited the market for the food before preparing six courses each which we in turn polished off and it was all delicious. We are now fully qualified master chefs, as our certificates clearly state. We are also a good two stone heavier, as the torn elastic waist band on my shorts clearly indicates. I also learnt that adding water to a really hot pan with boiling oil in gives off a really big flame. (I am just delighted to be writing this with both my eyebrows still intact.)We wandered around the city that evening for a few hours to try to lose the weight gained from our Thai cooking class and we stopped for a savage late night burger and chips. (As I already mentioned, we aren’t geniuses. But, it was so good I had a
Thai Cooking Claas.
Gemma 'woks' - get it? dream about it.)
Having originally planned to do maybe three or four days here we are now on day number nine and thought sure, what’s one more day, so we decided do just that, to stay another extra day in order to go to the tiger kingdom and snake show. And are we glad that we stayed the extra day. Tiger Kingdom was just amazing, we spent today playing with baby tiger cubs and sitting next to big tigers, it was unreal. While playing with the baby cubs, myself and Gemma could only speak in high pitch cutesy tones of muttering gibberish (for example. uji budji bo) Trust me, it happens to everyone, there’s no shame. It was a great experience and the tigers are so well looked after it was well worth the 15 euro. We then went to see a snake show, as well as talking about the snakes that they keep there we got to see how the cobra ejects venom which was very interesting. There were many different types of snakes- King cobra's, pythons, water snakes to name a few, all within 1 or 2 meters of us. Gemma wasn't as comfortable with the
Thai Cooking Class
The finished article snakes as with the tigers. At one stage she nearly logged onto her inner net... (As in the inner net of her shorts).
It’s back to our lodgings for us now as we have to pack up our gear so that we can move on from here in the morning in the direction of Chiang Rai.
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Jo
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awwwwww
Cant believe i was in thailand and never went to tiger kingdom! im so booking a flight just to go der :) seriously jealous rite now