woke up at 7: at 8 am departure for the excursion yesterday! I have a breakfast and I go below 7.30 for the Thai but still asleep (on the chairs of the restaurant) so I make them wake up and prepare an 'American breakfast' rich and abundant! I also go back in time up to our room to brush my teeth and carry out the defecatio sundial. I go back down and the minivan is already there waiting for me with the 'guide' who nervously smoking a cigarette and two Japanese half asleep in the car. I'm not the last fact we are still waiting for another Japanese girl late. just get out and went to take another 4 people: 2 sisters in Singapore, a German couple. travel towards the first leg of the tour (an orchid nursery and butterfly farm) lasts an hour, the place is nice: the plants are numerous and of many colors, I do not understand but there are also rare piece (obviously all sold), the butterflies are confined in a tent in the greenhouse and among tropical plants and colorful flowers can be seen numerous cocoons and caterpillars, but also lots of butterflies of different sizes and breeds. very impressive, too bad you see that everything is built specifically for the tourist trip of an hour with various shifts and required courses up to the shop. from there another hour to reach the 'farm' of the elephants. Here we were divided in pairs and we went on elephants, with me is the girl Japanese latecomer in the morning, Kotomi, who is also her by making a trip through Europe and Asia but is in the final in a month will return to Japan, was also in Italy after a tour in Europe and spent a month in india to do volunteering, she left the job in a dental assistant to travel and thought he was way more, but he spent too much in Europe and is on the way home. this is making me worry about me knows that I misjudged the budget and I guess I'll have to get a job.
the elephant ride takes about an hour between the river and the forest. when we get back to base camp divide us into 2 groups: one goes to see the 'Giraffe Women' (an ancient people of Northern Thailand with the custom of putting the rings on the necks of women to lengthen the neck), and the other the ancient village of the mountain. The difference lies in the tour price (the one with the giraffe women cost a few euro more): in essence the two villages, one kilometer away from each other, are substantially identical but one has a couple of ladies around the necks of rings. for the rest of the huts are the same and the children who'll sell you necklaces are the same after comparing the photos of the two groups! I did not see the long neck woman but at least I have loaded on a cart pulled by two oxen sympathetic with the German couple, however, has now lost I do not know where the alleys of the village and returned alone. the return was ready for the buffet lunch at the farm of the elephants. pretty good and plentiful. Meanwhile there's also our other group and other tourists with another tour.
food waiting for us after the show of baby elephant circus scenes that I was not very pleased with those poor animals forced to dance or play football or painting pictures with his trunk then sold to tourists. it's time to get off the river with the raft, so we drive up in 4 plus the two drivers on these 'boats' made by tying together a dozen bamboo. the captain and first officer are the same who carried out the elephant in the morning and then did the elephants do the numbers after lunch of course. on our arrival in the valley, after about half an hour with the putrid water of the river on foot, there is a minivan waiting for us with our guide smoker who tells us to hurry that we're late. then comes to me saying that a surprise! even if I did not pay for the ride to the falls offer me the chance to go with the rest of the crew. ooohhh. I take this opportunity even though I have the costume and go with others. the German couple is instead moved to another van for another tour somewhere. before reaching the falls, however, lead us in a small factory for the production of items made from elephant dung, a thing unimaginable .. make everything from paper to household items to the covers of books to clothing. you might also want something done with the elephant dung and even knowing it!
past this screen we get to final boss: the waterfalls! very beautiful landscape and great sin nature that is a bit 'late, and the temperature has been a bit' down and that does not have the costume I would have gladly made a couple of dives into the water at 5 degrees, along with the Japanese) the two sisters singapore give up and wait while I upstream with the jap and a new guide in the meantime had come and gone there to smoker Late in the forest to a natural swimming pool where the first two guys throw a fish while Kotomi be a couple of times spurred dressed before entering the protocol as required by the Japanese. the place is full of Thai kids who try numbers from acrobats jumping off rocks and trees, and slipping into the river to waterfalls in the numerous ponds and lakes we encounter. one of two Japanese is also a flight from banana peel on the entire back of the lichens scratching and breaking the camera. the sun is going down and we head towards the van that will take us back to the city. before returning to make arrangements with the girl of Nagano for the evening: let's eat together!
we are in the hall at around 8, how sweet it is also putting the dress of the party! not so much that I go out to dinner with a girl for the most eastern .. who knows what they eat?! :)
initially wanted to bring to my Favorite shack along the way but I opted for a more romantic seafood restaurant in the area of \u200b\u200bthe night market. the night before because I had noticed this place with the tanks and the fish you choose them and the prices you were not even bad. We ate very well and she has been a really interesting person. spend some time as a couple on Valentine's Day and then we 2 step to the market for fakes. in just over a half-hour begins with a tropical storm at least 30 cm of water in the street so we take a tuk-tuk and went back to the hotel drenched but happy. The evening went much and we had fun. shame that I have the alarm clock at 7 for the second day of the trip and you have the bus to go to bangkok afternoon and so we leave you with an appointment in a couple of days khaosanroad and go to bed! floret goodnight!
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