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      • Elephant Village
        07/29/11
        We attended 1 day "mahout training" today. Mahouts are the local elephant handlers. We took turns mounting an elephant involving pulling up using an ear while she lifts her front knee for you to step up on. We also learned and practiced a few simple lao commands which the elephant was s

      • Mekong River Trip
        07/28/11
        To get from Northwest Laos(silent 's') to Central Laos, one of the best options is the slow boats. These leave every morning, overloaded with people sitting in non-fastened backseats from vans. Roughly 80 people were on our long boat measuring 10ft wide and nearly 200ft? long!

      • Chiang Rai
        07/25/11
        The next day, we headed to Chiang Rai. Our goal was to get closer to the Loas/Thailand border, but break up the bus ride some. It only took three hours to get there, so it wasn't terrible.

        The city was cute. The first evening we didn't do much. The next day we rented scooter

      • Elephant Nature Park
        07/24/11
        On Thursday we went to the Elephant Nature Park. This park was created to rescue elephants that were abused by their previous owners. Many domesticated elephants in Thailand were out of work as of 1989 when logging was outlawed in Thailand. So, begging with elephants on the street became common a

      • Chiang Mai
        07/21/11
        We haven't done much while we've been here. We took a couple days off, where we mostly worked and relaxed. However, on Tuesday, we rented two scooters and went up a 'mountain' to Doi Sethup, a temple up there. It required climbing around 350 stairs, which wasn't too bad.

      • Overnight Train
        07/19/11
        On the day we were leaving Bangkok, we had a bit of time, so we just wandered the nearby malls and shopping centers. The MBK Center is huge and has a cinema in it. We spent most of the day there. We even went to see Harry Potter. After 20 minutes of mostly commercials and about 4 previews for ot

      • Bangkok
        07/15/11
        We didn't do much in Kuta. We found some yummy Mexicanish food and that was pretty much it. Sandra's flight left early, so she was up and gone before 7am. We left at 10am. Once we were in line to check in our bags, I went to the kiosk to get our tickets and noticed that Joe and put in

      • Manta Rays!
        07/12/11
        In the morning we got up and headed out for a dive. The goal was Manta Point and Crystal Bay if the conditions were good. We got to Crystal Bay and went in. There were fish everywhere. The water was pretty chilly, but it was still pretty neat. We were looking for Mula Mula (Sunfish) which are h

      • Hunting Komodo By Camera
        07/11/11
        This turned out to be a bit of an adventure... I'll warn you now, this is going to be a long blog. The trip is not something we would repeat and I'm not totally sure it was worth it, but there were some fun aspects and we saw some neat things. It was originally going to be only 3 days.

      • Gili Air
        07/05/11
        Our last evening on Gili T. we decided to go to a movie. They have a 'theater' where you just have to buy food or a drink and you can watch the movie. It's basically just cushions on the ground, then a projector. I got popcorn (first popcorn since Australia!) and we watched Water F

      • The Gilis
        07/04/11
        We decided to head to the Gili Islands to check them out. Sandra had heard a lot of good things about them. There are three. The 'main' one is Gili Trawangan. We took the boat over in the afternoon and found a place to stay at Bubble Dive. There are no cars or motor vehicles here. Tr

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