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Published: April 21st 2008
Been a while I know but when you are as busy as us its hard to find the time sometimes............................ A lot Shorter this one you'll be glad to hear, although we're sure some of you pretend your doing work while reading these, ha ha !!!!!!!
Well I can safetly say we are looking more like travels every day with Jen wearing multi coloured fishermans pants and Dan's hair now that long he is thinking of having dreds and calling himself Raymond...........
We arrived in Ayutthaya the ancient capital of Siam (thailand). This city is full of ancient ruins dating back to the 13th century, Some are beautiful however most look like piles of rubble now, but you could imagine how grand they used to be. We potted around for a day on a push bike, it was like being one of the locals. We soon realised the bigger you are the more right of way you have, we almost got flattened several times. That was a paticularly bad day as dan walked into a bees nest and got stung several times and then road over several cheverons at high speed buckling his front wheel, as well as having
Local Thai Tribe
Giving the locals a few tips on shooting!!!to cope with bangkok belly!!!!! We found out there was also plenty of wildlife around her as walking a long the street one evening an 8 foot snake slithered out in front of us and across the road, stopping all the traffic in its path.
5 days and several packs of antibiotics later and we were on our way to Chaing Mai, Northern Thailand. The old city was surrounded by a moat and a lot more chilled out than we thought it would be. There was loads of Cooking, massaging and painting courses to be done but there was also loads of trekking to the hill tribes villages and learning to be a masout (elephant rider). We did not do any of these however we wondered around the cities temples and palaces, which were very beautiful and different from the southern region as they were made out of teak instead of concrete. We visited the long neck Karen tribe who are migrants from Burma, from a young age the women have gold rings put around there necks stretching there heads from there body, which looked really perculiar but was facinating.
We also went to a muay thai fight which
Karen Long Neck Tribe
All of the women have these put on from a young age........ How strange!! was a little disapointing as none of the fights got passed the second round and to top it off there was a lady boy caberet as the grand finale.
Our last destination in Thailand was Chaing Khong on the Thai-Laos border which are devided by the huge Mekong River. We sat eating tea overlooking the Laos village of Houy Xai which intermittently kept having power cuts all night, we were starting to wonder what we were letting ourselves in for as we had already heard many stories about Laos and the food they eat.........dogs, snake blood soup etc. We will let you know what experiences they have in store for us soon.
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Emma, Craig, Amber & Bump
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Lucky buggers!!!
Glad you both well again. You both look great and im so jealous of your tan as i am paler than pale now that i cant go on the sunbed. I will be so glad when summer comes so i can sit in the sun. You look like you are having so much fun! I bet the first thing that came to garys head when he saw the woman from the tribe is that they would be great at deep throating...ha ha!! they look so weird and that little girl was so cute. Not much been happening here still working unlike some!!!! Love you both loads and just think the next time i see you you will have a new nice or nephew! Amber sends a big sloppy smoocher kiss xxxx