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1st December
Khao Sok National Park
MARK: Our package deal at Morning Mist consisted of 2 nights accom including brekkie + Elephant ride + Tubing, so our itinerary for the day was clear - elephant trekking in the morning and tubing in the afternoon. On the way to the ellies we met a british couple - Matt (who should be a Chris) and Sarah (who should be an Emily), who were also doing the ellie trekking tour with us. Matt is a history lover and we spent the rest of the day and night over many beers debating history and the right and wrong of various dictators and wars. I'm sure we both made up most of what we said under the pretense of alcohol induced expert knowledge! Sarah was quieter and Kim and her hit it off well and spent the remainder of the day talking weddings (they're engaged), boys, and girly stuff. It turns out that as couples we were VERY similar - in fact so similar it was a bit weird like looking in a mirror. They spoke to each other the same way, bickered over the same things we do and made & laughed at the same jokes…. Strange yet it was a fun day.
The elephant trekking turned out to be a huge success and was way better than our Chiang Mai experience. In Khao Sok we actually trekked through a jungle and the elephants walked for hundreds of meters up a river - IN the river! Awesome. That afternoon we headed out for some tubing - which turned out to be a bore. Having done Vang Vieng this was a let-down. In fact even if we hadn't done VV this would've been boring. The river was small and hardly flowing. No rapids. And we had to paddle for what seemed like the whole way. Hardly tubing more like paddling down a river using your hands on a tractor inner tube! Anyways, the scenery was great and we got to float with a school of river fish, which I captured on video. Wait till you see this!
KIM: Agreed… the tubing was hardly something to write home about. The elephant trekking definitely was though, even if our ellie (or are elephant master) was a bit of a grump not letting either of us ride on the elephants neck.
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