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Today was a crazy day filled with activities! Up at stupid oclock and packed into a van filled completely with chineese people! Literal even the tour guide was chineese, don't know how we managed to book onto a chineese tour but it was cheap so oh well! First stop was of course the butterfly garden! I don't know why but every tour seems to include a trip to a butterfly garden?!
This one was awful as there was a huge spider web where all the butterfly's were getting stuck! We hoped someone noticed, because obviously no one could understand us! Next was zip lining! We got into our harnesses and started the small trek up into the forest where we ziplined and abseiled across 19 platforms the longest one was 400 metres over the river and the elephants down below! It was really quite scary and so high up but amazing as well esspecially as you had to brake your self using a tiny stick of bamboo and some platform just had mats for you to crash into to stop yourself! Next was elephant riding, we sat on a bamboo chair on the elephants back while our guide sat on its head to direct it we went all through the hills and ended up in the river were we stopped to feed the elephant bananas, he was very greedy so this didn't take long! Next we went up to see the long neck tribe which is a group who stretch their necks with metal rings their whole lives even the kids, some of the older women's neck were so long! And we learnt that they could actually die if they took them off as their neck could snap! Crazy people! We couldn't get any pictures because we felt weird coming to stare at them in their village in the first place! Next on the agenda was bamboo rafting (literally everything is made of bamboo here) about 12 of us on a few sticks of bamboo on a very fast flowing river, the 'driver' let one of the chineese kids have a go at driving which is basically pushing a bamboo stick through the water and he managed to drop the stick and very nearly fall in! When we got to the end of the river it was time for our last activity of the day! White water rafting! This was amazing! So much fun racing the other boats and paddling as the raft went over huge dips and rocks in the water! We got soaked! Finally time to go home but not before a stop at a waterfall of course in true guided tour style!
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