Thailand

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Hi all,
Thanks for the comments which were lovely to read. We enjoyed our 1 night in Bangkok and then went to Khao Yai National Park. We had a brilliant 1 1/2 day tour, the first part we joined with a Danish couple who were both zoo keepers- Mark & the guy hit it off straight away with their mutual love of wildlife quickly comparing photos taken and snakes seen (whilst us females sat & rolled our eyes!) Within a few minutes down the road the guide had seen a snake which he promptly handed to Mark- a little too close for my liking! However, it was an oriental whip snake only mildly venomous apparently! We saw other very intersting wildlife including bats (in a cave), scorpion spiders (which we held) gibboms and a pit viper(Mark spotted!) We spent saturday night in a dark cave looking for tarantulas( think I prefer watching strictly come dancing!). We had a brief stop in Ayutthaya the old ancient city of Thailand it was lovely to be there during the festival which celebrates the end of the rainy season- they light candles in baskets of flowers and float them on the river. We arrived in Chang mai, northern Thailand last night after an 11 hour train journey- lovely scenery outside the train but little cockroaches in the train!. We have enjoyed walking around this lovely city & i've just had my first Thai massage which was lovely (no pain, no gain & all that).
Tomorrow we are doing a Thai cookery course and then going on a 2 day Trek.
We'll write again soon and hopefully upload some photos
Lots of love
Jo & Mark
xxx

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Comments

[Jen Hill]

Cool!!
Hi dudes! I love the travel blog...why didn't I know about that when I went travelling?! I'm now going to become your official stalker! (Sorry if I'm scaring you!) Glad you're having a great time and that you like Libra Guesthouse. I wonder if the cookery course will be the same? So funny to think of you staying there and doing the same things that I did nearly 3 years ago. Take care and have lots of fun. Lots of love, Jen xxx

[Fi]

you HELD scorpion spiders? you actually, by choice, HELD spiders? you HELD them? why would you do such a thing? you went LOOKING for tarantulas? you chose to bring yourselves into close proximity with them? you LOOKED for them? why would you do such things? WHY? there was a large spider in the shower in the corner of a consulting room at the cottage hospital today (not entirely sure why there was a shower there at all) and i could barely concentrate on the consultation cos i was so busy keeping an eye on it in case it found its way out and attacked me. DONT GO LOOKING FOR SPIDERS IT'S A SILLY THING TO DO. xxx