A Thai Mistress and travellers rule number 32

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June 27th 2010

Published: June 27th 2010

What once was figurative, is now literal in the old name for Laos, “The Land of 1000 Elephants”. Now, it’s a land of environmental and ecological destruction. The habitat for elephants is well destroyed in the vast majority of the land and their useful agricultural role is now rapidly diminishing. Caught between not being left alone and then no longer been wanted, numbers have plummeted to b... Read Full Entry

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River near Elephant camp

Bamboo construction, wonderously able to withstand monsoon floods - not.

Chiang Mai Zoo

One of many stunning species in the massive Aquarium

Getting very wet

Not sure who enjoyed this the most

Feeding time at the Aquarium

World Cup fever is strong in Thailand. It's been a delight to joke with the Thai's about NZ participation, and their non appearance

Grand Designs - Laos

Ohh for this renovating opportunity at home.

Zip line attraction

How Molly managed to convince Bernard to shell out US$30 each for this is a mystery. However, she had a fantastic time. So did he, after the first hour.

LP street scene

Have I made it clear? This is one cute town! See it, before the Chinese take over.

Was this in the safety briefing?

Lauren, to her credit loved it. Dad has been running the "what if" scenarios ever since.

Tuk Tuk

Don't think for a moment that nice smile means he is a nice chap. He's an Asian taxi driver... enough said

Look closely

I am sure I smell the fear.....

Molly in her nice mahout uniform!!

Nice! How come she did not delete this photo earlier?

Molly riding our big boy

Ban Su

Cool eh!

I wish I could blame the happy pizza for this effect, man!

Rubbish

We watched open jawed, as a motorbike and trailer travelled about 500 metres from a village, dumped this pile of crap on the side of a path, left the residual detritus on the road, and headed back to the village.