29th The 3day trekkers split from the overnight trekkers this morning a lot more actual walking today, just four of us including Ken so very relaxed, lots of pine trees. We swam briefly at one waterfall before eating our prepacked that morning, leafwrapped lunch of noodles, Ken made us all freshly cut chopsticks.
We arrived at a little village (6 families) where tea was cooked for us and we played with the puppies and had quick cold showers before it got too cold, also got to try what the locals (including Ken) were having for tea spicy egg with sticky rice – I love sticky rice. Not that our spring onion dish wasn’t great too!! (the green bits)
Rice Paddys
30th Jan
Made a side trip to another waterfall, bit cold for me to go swimming, then we just had a short walk to the nearby restaurant where we had lunch and headed off to do bamboo rafting and elephant riding. The bamboo rafting was fun we made a race out of it against another 2 groups the bamboo raft is made up of about 5m long bamboo poles lashed together until it was about 1m wide, there was a little seat in the middle and the guy that knew what he was doing steered with a pole in the front and someone helped out at the back, except we thought we’d be great at this so demoted the professional. The rafting is done on a narrow, windy and rocky stream so you need to be pretty skilled in knowing when to dig your pole in and swing the raft around, I was out by about a mm, I thought I had made it past a rock, so I took my eyes off it and instead met the water head first over the front of the raft!! Rather painful exit from my turn at captain but very entertaining for the other rafts!! It also meant we lost our lead but managed to gain it back again just before the finish line. Then off to the elephant riding, by which time I was regaining the use of my jarred foot. All three of us rode the same elephant, always female elephants, and don’t let them see the sugar cane or bananas before you get on or they wont work!
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