needless to say after getting to bed at 3am a wake up call to go trekkinv at 7am wasnt too well received haha managed to guzzle down some scrambled eggs before getting picked up from my first hostel! it was an hour drive to start the trek and i was in a car with 2french couples and a french lady..they chatted so didnt notice my wee nap ha our guide was Bon...James Bon haha he was such a joker and made te trek so fun! he was such a jungle man..pointing out what cool functions various plants had, making hats from banana leaves and getting us to try all the local produce!we tried...lychees, pineapple, te middle of a banana tree, chilli,Thai ginger (which was quite spicy), chillis, we smelt Thai mint, lemongrass, saw oranges, papaya, mangoes, cabbages and bananas growing...dad would have loved it!! after about 3/4hours walking in the heat we mafe it to a tribal villaged for lunch! this was very wrll recieved by us all! the 'village' was made up of 3banboo houses..it seemed all rather new and there was quitr a lot of 'construction' work going on! this was the long neck tribe i was expecting but the had the big rings in their ears! but it was lovely for them to have us and we had a yum fried rice and poato curry with watermelon for pudding! but no rest for the wocled and we carried on hiking through the jungle to another village. again tjis wasnt 'tribal' but interrsting to see! from here we walked down to the waterfall..ahh it was SO refreshing!! after wallowing for a while we carried on to the elephant park. here one of the french couples were staying the night to ride the elephants the nexy day but we hopped in a car back to our hostels! i got back, had a shower and headrd to the sunday night markets...after doing a express food tour of the market i wandered round properly before meeting Ash for a drink at Rooftop bar as she is heading to Laos tomorrow :)
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