Thailand - part 2

Elephant trekking

On Wednesday we went on an elephant trek. It was pretty neat. The top picture is our elephant and our driver. While we were on it we sat on that seat and our driver straddled the elephants neck.

This is what Cam and I look like when we're on an elephant.


Part way through we got off the elephants and walked. We went to a cave, saw a snake and a spider and some bats, then walked to this waterfall. It's not really that impressive compared to some other waterfalls I've seen, but it's pretty.

Then we got back on our elephant and rode back to their house. We were probably on the elephant for 20minutes at a time. So not heaps. But definately enough. Plus I felt a bit sad for them because they had those big chairs strapped to them.



We could pay $5 to feed our elephant after the trek. We got a basket full of bananas and a pineapple.

The elephant took the food out of our hands with his trunk, just like in cartoons. It was so cool. And he took the whole pineapple, held the green bit, put the rest in his mouth and ripped off the green part so he didn't have to eat it. So smart.






Back at Camp

Wednesday night was our last night on Ko Lanta so we had some dinner and drinks with our friends and said goodbye.

From left to right is Steve (the English guy), Andrea (one of the Itallians) and Michael and Rachel, the Irish couple.






And this is Javi, the Spanish guy who had just spent 5months working in New Zealand.

Javi and Steve were our first friends and our favourties.

On Thursday we went to Ko Phi Phi and I forgot to take any photos with my camera because we bought and underwater camera that we played with instead. On Friday morning we went on a 1/2 day snorkelling trip and went to the beach where The Beach was filmed. It was fun. Then Friday afternoon we took the ferry back to Krabi, stayed in Krabi for a night and flew back to Bangkok Saturday morning.


This is Kieth, you may remember him from our first 2 weeks in Korea. He moved to Thailand to teach english after we'd been there about 3 weeks. He's the only person we knew in all of Thailand and we ran into him at Bangkok airport. Unbelievable. And the girl is his friend from LA who had come to visit.

He showed us how to bus for 34baht from the airport to the city, our first night in Bangkok we paid 800baht to get to the same place.



We spent Saturday shopping, eating and watching the new Batman movie on Imax. We stumbled across some fortune tellers. This one spoke english. This is what he said (after asking for Cam's birth date) -

1. He was born in the year of the Tiger
2. He was born on a Friday
3. He has a very good education
4. He currently has very good work with very good money
5. He will have a good wife in the future
6. His life and money got better on July 17th
7. In his life love, money and happiness will all be very good.
8. He will have a management position in his career.

Then he looked at his palm and said -
1. He has a lucky and happiness hand
2. He will have a happy and long life
3. There will be no great problems in his life
4. He will own good property
5. He is very clever
6. He will have good work with good money
7. He will always have strong health

In November 2009 he will become lucky in money and love. He will have a good wife and good children.


Then Saturday night we flew back to Korea, and got back to our apartment by midday Sunday. We had an amazing trip.