Our jungle house was a straight up hut. The walls were weaved like a heavy duty basket. Inside we had a mosquito net, thankfully and an outdoor shower and toilet. One night we left the soap outside and a little animal came and ate it and the wrapper. Oops, I didn't see any dead animals outside though, so it must have survived. The next day we signed up for a one day tour that included a cave, and a jungle trek.
This is a picture of the area. It use to be hills but Thailand decided to make it a man made dam instead. The landscape was beautiful. 
Yes, I was the only person on the boat wearing a life jacket. Doy (the tour guide) gave it to us for a reason...
Our first stop was animal watching. We took a longtail boat around with our tour guide and he took us to a secret location to see animals. If you look closely, that blob is a monkey. We were lucky and saw a whole family swinging from the trees.
Next was the cave. I was petrified at the prospect of meeting a snake in the cave. I had secretly been mentally preparing in case I saw one, luckily we only saw huge spiders and bats. It was pitch black in the cave and only had 3 flashlights for 5 people. Most pictures had to be guess-timated.
This one is a shell but I saw others this size too.
For lunch Doy knew of this brand new floating restaurant and wanted to take us to help bring it good luck. It was owned by one of his friends so all of his friends were there. It was cool to see natives in their actual native area. Actually this is their "new" homeland. They were recently given back the land that was taken from them decades ago. Instead of living in the hills they are now a river village. 
Two Aussies who were part of our tour group. They were cool guys.
After the jungle trek we took a dip in the water. It was a refreshing change. When I was jumping off the boat onto the raft I jumped right on top of the patched part on the raft. The workmanship of the patch was high quality, so instead of falling straight into the water I just made the dent deeper. So dumb on my part.
Doy- the REAL jungle man. He was a character. When we were hiking in the jungle he carried a huge machete. I asked him if he had to use it on any animals, he danced around the question and answered he needed it for bushwhacking. He only pulled it out once, it was a bit scary to be the one following him. You never knew when he would whip it out. 
On our ride home he ran into his house and grabbed this pic to show us, he was very proud. He said he takes his gun on longer trips to scare the animals. We also switched from his nice truck to his Jeep so that we could go off roading for our 7 minute trip back to our hotel. That 7 minutes was crazy. I felt like we were on a hardcore jungle safari in the pursuit of lions or something.
2 comments:
ooo the guy holding the gun, he has a SG550, i want one :(
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