The day started early, as we went outside the town to see the long-awaited elephants. Already approaching the place we saw various people riding elephants along the road and in the woods, the most ordinary thing for them and the most extraordinary for us...
It was fun to do bamboo rafting and even more trying to ‘drive’ it yourself, seeing natives laughing their pants off at your clumsiness and miserable attempts to keep the raft straight.
After getting to another side of the river, they let us have a ride on back of an elephant across the river and in the woods. At the end of the ride we found ourselves in a mountain village after which, an ox cart took us back to the valley.
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| bamboo boys |
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| a girl from the Mae Tang tribe |
On the way back to town, there were several roadside shrine vendors. And I bet they have quite some demand there as all Thais need to have a sort of their own ‘in-house temple. You are sure to see it in very house and every building, may that be a very basic shrine or a big pompously decorated one. All of them though will have a small statue of Buddha, an incense burner and some food/flowers.
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