It is most amazing how fast the weather changes minute to minute here in the tropical mountains! One minute you are planning to go to the night market, the next, a freak tropical storm sweeps in and you are watching the streets become a river! Plan B: to the spa! (rough life!) Yesterday, set out with our driver, Ari, to the elephant camps north of town. ari's son is a mixed martial arts fighter....anyway, he took us up to the Maetang elephant park...a well oiled machine! You pay, then elephant show (they sing, they dance, they paint pictures, they play soccer!) then on to the ox cart ride (???) to the elephants, who then ride you back to camp. Along the way, lots of opportunity to buy banana and sugar cane for 20B to feed your
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