We’ve been here for almost 2 months now (Wow, can you believe it?) and we’ve seen many animals. First of all, animals can appear in the least likely places, like this chicken, who we found in the office of the Elephant Nature Park: And continuing with the bird theme, pigeons are here too. This one […]
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We knew something was up when Ligeia turned on the TV and on 6 of the 15 channels, this is what she saw: Mindy went online to investigate and there was already a big clue on the Google homepage: Here’s what we learned: It is called Phraraj Pithi Jarod Phranangkal Raek Na Kwan or Royal […]
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When traveling you must always ask if the local water is safe to drink. In Thailand this decision was an easy one as we learned very early on that even the Thais don’t drink the water. Yet buying large amounts of water in plastic bottles only produces a large amount of plastic that as we […]
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First, here is some general information about Thailand: The Thais believe that the country is shaped like an elephant’s head. Do you agree? If you’re having trouble, try to imagine the elephant’s head from the side. In this case the elephant is facing left. Can you see the trunk? Can you see the big floppy […]
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Today was one of wonderful people. It began with us changing rooms again because ours was booked for that night. The new room hadn’t been cleaned yet so the woman working at the front desk proceeded to clean it. This was clearly not her job, so she apologized afterwards because it “wasn’t as good as […]
Read More…After spending one night in Guilin, we found a bus going to Daizhai in the middle of the Longji rice terraces. Our three hour bus ride through the hilly terrain began by us finding our bus based on the license plate we were given. Amongst many buses in front of the train station we surprisingly […]
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