Did you miss me? =) I know I am way behind on this because we were traveling, but I plan to catch you up real quick. Finally you all get to hear about the Elephant park day. This day was jam packed with amazing activities and I am stoked to share all of it with you guys.
We started Thursday (Thursday is Orange in Thailand) with a very long bus ride from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi. We left the majority of our luggage at the hotel and only packed over night bags for this trip. Luckily I left my rain coat and umbrella in my locked up suitcase in the hotel and it was raining cats and dogs outside. Rookie move, what can I say? Hey at least I packed it right?
After our 3 hour long bus ride ( I didn't even have to stop the bus to pee once) we arrived at the Elephant Park just in time for lunch. We were all like little kids and a little too excited to eat all of our lunch. My group's first activity was bamboo rafting down the River Kwai. The river was beautiful and the mountain scenery was out of this world. Everything here is green and lush which made for a beautiful float for us. Don't be fooled by the sound of river rafting and think this was anything like intense river rafting. The bamboo rafting was more like a slow and relaxing river float, but it was perfect! Here are some of the photos of the bamboo rafting.
Jill and I all ready to go
Our bamboo raft with lots of scary critters
Headed down stream
Our boats lined up and ready =)
Not sure why I am making this face, but look how beautiful the scenery is around me!
Our Captain!
We only made it about 10 minutes on the raft before we all decided to jump in the water. Only God knows what is swimming in those waters, but we all made it out alive, so no worries.
Jill got cold feet, but I was ready to jump in the water!
All of us girls floating down the river. We have our ass in the water, toes on the boat.
I guess this is my "we're in the water face"...?
Immediately after our bamboo rafting adventure we headed to the little huts to catch our elephant rides. EEEK! It was so much fun and even though we had a mean guy leading our elephant, it was still a great elephant ride. In India I was able to sit on an elephant, but this elephant ride was way more fun and a little painful as well. We went on an hour long elephant ride through the jungle, across the river, and around the entire elephant park. Here are some of the shots from the elephant ride!
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Hello =)
Normally these guides get off and take photos of you on the elephant, but our elephant was acting up or our guide didn't like us because we were the only ones to not get pictures on our own cameras. We spent about two minutes mad about it, but the ride was too awesome to worry about our picture.
This guy was acting up too and making noise the whole way
Luckily our friends in front of us snapped some pictures. In this picture I am putting my hair up after the elephant just sneezed all over us! haha
Here are the elephants crossing the river. Luckily we did this part 2nd because we witnessed how much elephant poop is in the water we were all just swimming in and elephant poop is no joke!
Because our guy didn't take our photo, and we didn't know if our friends got any good ones, we bought this one that the elephant camp takes (quite the way to sucker us in to buying from them, but it was less than $5 and we got a cute frame)
Really this cute frame is worth the money and guess what? It is made of elephant poop! Really resourceful these Thai people are. haha No it doesn't stink!
That's not all folks... Next we went to the baby elephant show. I repeat BABY ELEPHANT. =) The elephants did all kinds of tricks and really were the cutest things ever. I am not sure how well they treat the elephants here or how hard elephants are to train, but I like to think these cute things are well taken care of and treated nicely. Also I really want a pet elephant! haha
Raising the Thai Flag
Playing the harmonica
Little bit of hula hoop
Some Darts!
I could have stayed with the babies forever!
I even got a kiss goodbye. An elephant kiss feels like someone has a vacuum hose attached to your cheek. Disclaimer: I have never had a vacuum hose up to my face, but I imagine that's exactly what it would feel like. =)
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