word to my mutha
let us all rejoice for the annual celebration of my mother's birth! without her i would be nought.
sorry i haven't updated things in awhile- there has been much travel and my mind has been elsewhere.
in kanchanaburi i met a french girl named lea. she convinced me to do many strange things by saying in a french accent that was just too darn cute, "i theenk it might be funneee". adorable.
we rented a motorbike and explored the africa-esque landscape between kanchanaburi and sangklaburi. we went to a very rustic woodland monastary that worked as a wildlife rescue centre for animals saved from poachers. lea kept stalking animals saying "i want to tooch! i want to tooch!" i suggested that perhaps she shouldn't. ironically, i was the one who got bitten by a tiger that was roaming around. it was a baby and tried to play with me by grabbing my arm in its' vice-like jaws. the monks stood around smiling even after my comment of, "ummm... i think he's actually biting me...." only a ripped shirt, a bruise and a few drops of blood and i get an awesome story. i also got to pet full size tigers, although i'm not convinced they weren't doped, as they weren't in cages and didn't have collars or restraints. these tigers were raised in human captivity but they are building a "tiger island" on which they hope to raise tigers to survive in the wild. an interesting and beautiful place of scrub brush, animals and saffron robes.
the next day we went drinking on a river boat disco that floated up and down the river kwai near the famous death railway where hundreds of people were killed. history coming alive! at least it wasn't one of the karaoke boats that the thai tourists go on. i was awakened by many of these as i was staying in a guest house that floated on the river; karaoke boats go from 7 at night until 6 in the morning. thai people are insane.
i then jetted out after no sleep (stayed up talking to an islraeli man named rrrroy all night- jenya you would have been very embarrassed of my attempts at rolling the r properly) to meet eben, who had the unfortunate shock of going from a silent hermitage to bangokok. all i saw was the bus ride from the bus terminal to the train station and that was enough for me- it took 3 hours. from there it was up through chiang mai, land of package tours and dust, and now we're in mae sai on a border run into myanmar to extend our thai visa.
myanmar was interesting, although we were only there for a few hours. before coming here i wanted to avoid it like the plague but i have to admit that i'm now intrigued. travel there would be difficult, especially to avoid using government services, but could perhaps be a good experience. thoughts?
sorry i haven't updated things in awhile- there has been much travel and my mind has been elsewhere.
in kanchanaburi i met a french girl named lea. she convinced me to do many strange things by saying in a french accent that was just too darn cute, "i theenk it might be funneee". adorable.
we rented a motorbike and explored the africa-esque landscape between kanchanaburi and sangklaburi. we went to a very rustic woodland monastary that worked as a wildlife rescue centre for animals saved from poachers. lea kept stalking animals saying "i want to tooch! i want to tooch!" i suggested that perhaps she shouldn't. ironically, i was the one who got bitten by a tiger that was roaming around. it was a baby and tried to play with me by grabbing my arm in its' vice-like jaws. the monks stood around smiling even after my comment of, "ummm... i think he's actually biting me...." only a ripped shirt, a bruise and a few drops of blood and i get an awesome story. i also got to pet full size tigers, although i'm not convinced they weren't doped, as they weren't in cages and didn't have collars or restraints. these tigers were raised in human captivity but they are building a "tiger island" on which they hope to raise tigers to survive in the wild. an interesting and beautiful place of scrub brush, animals and saffron robes.
the next day we went drinking on a river boat disco that floated up and down the river kwai near the famous death railway where hundreds of people were killed. history coming alive! at least it wasn't one of the karaoke boats that the thai tourists go on. i was awakened by many of these as i was staying in a guest house that floated on the river; karaoke boats go from 7 at night until 6 in the morning. thai people are insane.
i then jetted out after no sleep (stayed up talking to an islraeli man named rrrroy all night- jenya you would have been very embarrassed of my attempts at rolling the r properly) to meet eben, who had the unfortunate shock of going from a silent hermitage to bangokok. all i saw was the bus ride from the bus terminal to the train station and that was enough for me- it took 3 hours. from there it was up through chiang mai, land of package tours and dust, and now we're in mae sai on a border run into myanmar to extend our thai visa.
myanmar was interesting, although we were only there for a few hours. before coming here i wanted to avoid it like the plague but i have to admit that i'm now intrigued. travel there would be difficult, especially to avoid using government services, but could perhaps be a good experience. thoughts?
posted by natalie at 2:53 AM
2 Comments:
Ahh... I loved the fact that you referred to being near the "death" railway as history coming "alive". Beautiful.
hmmm...something i do is useful? things aren't making sense right now. and what is juiceman?
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