Thai Adventures!!!!

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So we arrive in Bankok on an extreamly hot day. It was maybe 45 degrees and Jordan and I were suffering from a flight hang-over and Jetleg. We decide to get out of the sity asap and head west to a national park. We jumped in a share cab and took a two hour jorney for Kanchanaburi. There we stayed on a floating house. It wasn't quite a boat, just accomidation on hte water. There were elephants roaming the grounds and the sounds of the jugle were surrounding us at all times. The first day We took an amazing train ride through the mountains an allong the largest river in South East Asia. We sat on the steps that lead onto the train and my feet dangled over the water 50 meters below us. They took us to a wee public swimming water fall. The kids were everywhere. There was a little trail through the jungles that led us to buddist cave shrines, the first of many we would see. The food on the floating house was amazing. Spicy and curry like....which is my favorite foods.

The next day we awoke to the elephants roaming down by the water. They all looked to peacful and free. We all got to choose an elephant to ride down to the water and bath. Mine was old and she took her dear sweet time getting to the water, but I enjoyed the ride. After that we Took a bamboo raft down the river. Jordan and I we jumping off and swimming like little children in a play ground, giggling the whole time. At the end of the excersion, we hiked up the old rail road that was built in the 2nd World war. It was beautiful, but you could feel the death all around. When we got back to camp, we went on a wee ride on the elephants through the jungle.

I'll finish the rest of this blog later...................

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Photos

HORRAY!!!
This is me jumping off of a Bamboo raft into the Largest river in Thailand

Thai Lunch
Eating some Thai Veggies on the Boat house we stayed on in the Jungle

Waterfall
A public waterfall for all to enjoy!

Steve and The Waterfall
Taking a shower, I hadn't done so in a few days......

Buddah
The entrance way to a cave shrine

Prey to Buddah
This is inside the sacred shrine where people leave offerings for Buddah like water with little straws sticking out of the bottle or fruit

Tree House
Jordan almost fell through the floor boards, it was pretty funny!!!

Baby Monkey
Jordan was playing with a wee monkey by the water fall

Bamboo Rafts
These rafts were hanging on to the wee boat house we were staying on....the sun wasn't out that day

Roaming Elephant
We awoke to the elephants freely roaming around the grounds

Bathing the Elephant named Jamima
This was the Old girl I got to play with one morning...she was cool, slow as mapple syrup

Thai Mountains
This is the view from our Bamboo rafting adventure

Thai Hut
This is another view from our Bamboo rafting adventure

Standing on the back of a pick-up truck share cab
Theres no road rules in thailand!!!!

Elephant ride
I allways said that I would not go on an elephant ride because they are suposedly tourchered, but this farm seemed to be really good to the animals, so I gave it a go...it was like one quid for the ride....not even

Tiger temple
We went to a tiger reserve where there were tigers in a breading program. The monks train the tiggers to live freely with people...I don't thinks that is a good thing though...I left the site a little sad

Mule
I don't think I need to say anything about this guy...............

The Most amasing waterfalls I have ever been too
This site was in another provicial park. There were 7 cascading waterfalls of utter beauty. We were so amazed with the view that we almost forgot to take photos

Rock Jumping
It doesn't look like much of a jump, but I had to take quite a leap outward to miss th e rock beneath the water.

Comments

[Stephilynn]

Hey, sounds like lots of fun. me and some friends are going to Erawan this wknd. Where did you stay?

[your lova]

ugly much?
hey i just wanted to know are you really that ugly in person too .cause you take some ugly pictures gypsyman. But this Jordan girl sounds amazing...... you are a lucky ugly man to travel with such a beauty....

[Laura]

Jordan
I absolutely disagree. She's such a piggie. A diet for her?