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We leave Chang Mai and head to a wee local random market full of random stuff like pigs heads and an elephant dandering about. Quite surreal. Off to the elephant camp for an hours stroll. I share an elephant with Peaches (the man formally known as Pierce - renamed by Doh). Theres a digger near where we are and 3 of the beasts start to growl, seems as if they were going to charge the digger, with the only loser in all this being us!!

Jungle Trekking

Gareth Penpraze
2007-04-20 22:12:58

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sits and calls the monkeys and waits for the call back - "Tuk tuk 50 baht" he was sayin with the reply "Your out of yer tree!!" We all catch up and Doh starts digging at a hole, out comes a tarantula and he's pissing it off so the fangs come out. Mad man. We stop for lunch and the girls have been getting attacked by leeches!! Off again for another 2 hours to the next camp and into the river for some swimming - no leeches here though!! Didn't want a Stand By Me incident!! This time the camp isn't anywhere near a village, thew must have learned from the night before. We join Doh and his mates in the kitchen hut and Phil is probing for a smkoe of the "local tabacco" but Doh is having none of it!!

Day 3

Doh and the boys are up early to make some bamboo rafts - 30 mins a raft isn't bad!! Me, Phil, Sarah, Adele and Doh are on one raft. 5 mins in and we're one raft down - Peaches, Jenny, Chantelle and Janina get stuck. The raft nearly breaks and they're almost swept away. Must have been the highlight for me - felt like Indiana Jones! We walk a bit and get picked up to go to Doi Inthanon National Park. We're meant to go to the top but the clouds mean we can't see squat!! We stop at Mae Klang waterfall - 750m high which puts Gleno's to shame Ryan. We're back to the guest house not before Doh sleeps on my shoulder on the way back!!

Sarah gets her results, just missin a first, so we're all on the rampage tonight. Theres a couple of raggae bars nearby and some stupid falang (white foriegner) tries his hand and quickly dies on his arse. The singer is trying to get rid of him with not much luck, he can't take a hint. The next song the band plays is "I shot the sherrif" which is promptly changed to "I shot the tourist." Time to move. Next bar was meant to have closed but they have a hiden bar just incase the police come round!! Everyone is wrecked by 3.30 so we roll home with Adele falling asleep on the street, Phil passing out and Sarah trying to lock me in a cupboard. Its like being back in student halls all over!!

Update again in a couple of weeks folks. Heading to Laos soon.

Gareth Penpraze
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