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May 3rd 2007
Published: May 3rd 2007
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Water fall
Well.... we spent the last two day treking in the forrests of Chiang Mai in the Do In national park, its mainly ridge mountains coverd in all kinds of trees there pretty cool!

after driving there in the back of a pick up we firt went up the highest mountain in thailand! its pretty big! the air force buiilt both the king and queen Stuppas (big spires) there massive and the view from them is emence! your actually above the clouds and can look down on them and they slowly roll onto you aswell!!

after that we drove out to the forest and walked to our campo which was just bamboo huts by a river! it had a waterfall you could slide down but it was only small.. we had a really good meal, the food was all localy grown organic and then we played games with the guides from the local hill tribe! we also drank this whisky which they make out of tree bark! its well good!

next day we were off again to meet our elephant that carried me and pat, we didnt get the biggest one but it was really stuborn and would just walk off into the forest to look for food draging us through branches and down steep hills... elephants can understand there trainers when they want too and work for 61 years! its was slow progress but we got through it..

we went up to see a hill tribe but it wasnt really what we had been sold it was really just a very remote village that spoke a different kind of thai but it was cool none the less..

these two days now seem a lot more as we did so much in them the other people (4) were all really fun which made it loads better!

then we went to play in the big waterfall which was way more fun and did it like 6 times! its pretty dangerous the rock are super slippery and hard and sharp! but no one got hurt
!

after that cam the bambo rafting which was ok, mainly just trying to make each other fall into the shallow rocky water! i fell off and the got speard by some bambo, but its just a scratch.

over all it was welkl worth $20!

weve got a reggae all nighter to goto tomorow nite befor bella leaves soo all good!

BYE


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3rd May 2007

just printed the pic of u n pat on ur elephant n ive pinned it on my notice board!! love it! u look like ur havin a wicked time!! xxx
5th May 2007

arrrgh!
stop falling off balconies you foool! kisses x x x x x
14th May 2007

We are enjoying seeing your life over there. Keep posting the journal!

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