Highlights so far: eating ridiculously amazing street food all the time (and not getting sick), especially grilled bananas; being blessed by a monk at one of the holiest wats (temple) in Thailand; hiking through the woods to sit beside a few waterfalls; taking a bamboo raft trip (just Emily, Monika and I, plus the two men paddling the boat - no engine: really, ALL bamboo, in every manifestation of the plant you can imagine) for 2.5 days from Chiang Mai to Chaing Rai, during which we ate amazing meals cooked by our crew (including a full fish per person each night, barbecued on bamboo spits over a campfire), visited a few tribal villages, bathed in hot springs, and rode elephants (I sat in the driver's seat, on the elephant's head! and got punched in the stomach by an elephant's trunk!); riding on a bus that was probably built in the late 50's that seated about 30 people, but actually transported about twice that; hour-long massages that cost $5; happening upon some people farming (pulling shallots) in the fields, and randomly helping them farm for an hour or so, during which hilarious bouts of laughter ensued; and the amazing warmth and friendliness of Thai people...
Next stop, Laos and the Gibbons Experience.
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