Opps ..... Stuck in Storm
Well, we went in to town (Trekked in) for dinner. Started raining pretty heavy during dinner and basically didn't let up AT ALL but got worse. Even the Thais when we asked if they thought it would let up said....'noooo...BIG RAIN' Oh shit, whoopedoo. This meant that we had no way home as there weren't any taxi boat drivers crazy enough to do the 10 minute trek and risk a lightning bolt and there was NO WAY to trek back home as there were many 'animals' i.e. snakes along he jungle path.....in the end some Thais helped us by convincing a taxi boat driver to take us for 3x price when there was a slight break in the storm....off we went lightning a flashin' all around us!!
A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
