Today was an eventful and fun day. It started out with an hour long ride from Phuket province and into Pangnga Province. Our goal was the Tone Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary where our first activity was elephant trekking. This was by far the best elephant trekking I have ever been part of. Not only did we go through the jungle and over very rugged terrain, but the greatest thing was that Kim got to take the place of the Mahut, i.e. the elephant "driver". She got to sit on the elephant's neck and actually "drive" her. I was sitting on the back in a throne like a real jungle queen. The trek went over rocks and even through a river. Along the way our elephant, Jambee, a 35 year old female with a mind of her own, was grazing and even decided to trek off the beaten path through the bush. She then decided to pose for a picture by lifting her head and wrapping her trunk high around a tree. She was the only one who did that. A true individual; a girl after our own hearts. 
From here we drove further high up in the mountain and then took a short hike to a waterfall. Kim went in the water, which was icy cold. I opted to stay out because if I had gotten in I would never have been able to climb out. The rocks were very slippery. After the waterfall we returned to our base camp to prepare for our white water rafting. We were 4 Americans and 2 guides in our raft. Two girls from DC and us. Old age has its privileges - I did not have to paddle - just hold on to a rope and make sure I didn't fall out :-) It was a blast!
For dinner we went to a restaurant that our DC friends told us about. There we discovered a little shopping plaza with several restaurants and shops. So we did some shopping to work up an appetite ;-) Dinner was good and very inexpensive - too bad we didn't discover that until today.
Jisses vad häftigt!! Det ser fantastiskt ut och du Maggan ser verkligen lycklig ut, Kim också!!
ReplyDeleteKram Gunilla