What an adventure in THAILAND!

We're towards the end of our journey in Thailand and it started off slowly but the two of us are really genuinely enjoying ourselves now. Right now, we are in the last couple of hours of our stay in Chiang Mai, and this city is far far superior to Bangkok. Yesterday had to be the highlight of our trip so far....

Yesterday, we RODE ELEPHANTS!!!
We were on elephants! It was quite nice, they are so majestic and placid, and very very quiet animals, the place was a little on the slightly touristy side.... but I can live with that, considering I am a tourist and all :)

A few days ago, our group stayed at a homestay at an elephant conservation centre, and that place seemed to treat the elephants much nicer than this place where we rode the elephants... but, as tourism goes, we gotsta share the tourism dollar and not spend all our money at the one place.

We, of course, got the greedy big fat elephant that tried to steal everybody else's food.... imagine charging us tourists 20bahts to buy a bunch of mouldy bananas to feed the animals what they would be getting anyway... oh well, I guess we are helping the elephants afterall, it's just the principle of the thing, I don't like being made to buy something when I really don't want to.

After that, Lu and I decided to go bamboo rafting and I haven't had so much fun in a LONG LONG time! I mean, they told us not to bring any cameras or phones cos we're gonna get wet... but I never expected to get absolutely DRENCHED!

No, I didn't fall in the water, and no, Unlucky Lulu didn't either.... but the cheeky raft guide people purposefully (is that a word?) splashed us and made us screech and scream. Me thinks, they enjoy hearing little girlies scream....

So we had our revenge. We splashed them back!

I'd like to show you photos, but for some reason, blogger ain't letting me upload... oh well, we're leaving soon, so arrivederci for now (I'm not sure why I just used Italian, rather than Thai, oh well). I'll post a full blog of our adventures when I get home. I really don't know how many of you are still reading this considering how dull it is. Even I know its boring :)