Oh wait, correction.
I'm on an elephant.
Yeah, so this one time I rode an elephant. Oh, and that one time was yesterday. Cool yeah?
It's hair is poky
He liked to spit on me
We named him (her?) Chip (Chippy?)
Chip likes bananas (no duh.)
I thought I was going to fall off of Chip.
All in all, it was neat.
Next on the agenda was trekin. Full on mountain treckin.
Over logs laid over streams
Up and down muddy mountains
Under many waterfalls. Oh, technically only one today. I just get confused by the mass amounts of sweat constantly dripping down my face. TMI? Sorry.
Through cob webs (since I'm so much taller than the average Asian, I've learned one of the major downfalls. Cob webs. They aren't tall enough to run into the higher up ones, thus they leave them for me. Yay.)
During the biggest rainstorm i've ever experienced. Easily.
And through the most beautiful and amazing sites i've ever seen.
Seriously, amazing.
Next up, Hill Tribe
We slept at a village of the Lahu Tribe.
Highlight: Thai Massage... round two ding ding
Take a seat and relax for story time. This one requires your imagination a bit.
So we (all 8 of us White folk) are sitting around our table after arriving at the Tribe, just small talkin and takin a load off from the trek. Then we all notice that lots of Lahu women are starting to gather around us, we pay no mind at this point. Then one of the guides comes up to us and asks if we want massages. Next thing we know we are surrounded by at least 20 women asking all of us if we want massages. Grabbing our hands (or our butts in my case) to claim us for the massage.
I don't even know if I wanted a massage to be honest, but for the sake of peer pressure, the lady pushing my behind up into our hut, and the 20 other women crowded around, I literally had no choice!
Anyway, this is just one of those sites you had to see to believe. Picture this.
6 mattresses on the floor of this bamboo hut
Mosquito nets above all of them making the roof seems like it's 4 feet high. max.
Dark lighting seeing as there is NO lighting.
8 dirty, sweaty white people sprawled out on these who knows what covered sheets
20 tribe women hitting our bodies having absolutely NO CLUE what they are doing when it comes to a massage
And all of us just laughing slash writhing in pain depending on the moment
It was hilarious and honestly what I picture some back ally, sketch fest being like. Awesome
Yummy massaman curry dinner
Serenaded by the CUTEST little tribe kids ever. We bonded over patty-cake like hand claps. Who knew that is what would tie us all together?
Then serenaded by our awesome tour guide Rambo. Yeah you read that right, Rambo.
Then...all of us sleeping in our mountain side hut with mosquito nets and all. Which then leaked the entire torrential downpour onto our heads. Let's just say not the best nights sleep, but HELLO! Who needs a good nights sleep after such a relaxing massage? HA!
Next, trek day round 2
Woke up literally in a cloud. You couldn't see anything except for the mountain we were on.
Beautiful just doesn't do it justice.
Let hiking day two begin
Then we continued our trek to another waterfall. It was slippery but SO worth it.
Followed by some white water rafting. Nothing too crazy but boy did it feel good to be in water!
Then some bamboo rafting. If i'm ever stranded on a desert island. I know NOT to build a bamboo raft. They don't do jack!
So there was my Thailand Treking experience. Something words just can not explain I guess. And of course I didn't take the pictures to show it either.
Also, used my first squatty potty...holla! Survived and converted. Those are so much more sanitary than most toilets, i'm a fan. Who knew??
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