Today we went white water rafting and i am now shattered!
We made our way on our bus to the mae tong river. The journey was really rough we went up the mountains through the forest. The scenery up there is lush! Looks like we have stepped into jurassic park! This is where one of the many rambo films were shot!
Anyway back to rafting... wee had diiner by the river a nice jasmine rice and stir fried veg for me- yum! Then a load of fresh fruit (which i must say tastes even better here). We had our saftey induction and learnt the five basic commands. We were in the raft with a couple from Austria. I on the back right and steve up front on the left. The first part of the river was easy going through a few small rapids and then long stretches of calm water where we could get out of the raft and swim. It was so nice to swim in this cool river, the heat is too intense.
The rapids got more fierce further down the river and we got stuck on rocks and had to jump up and down or all move to the left then all move quickly to the right to get off . We ended up going backwards quite a few times which was scary. At one point steve nearly got knocked unconcious when we were hurled head first into a huge rock and I have a bruise on my bum where we smacked into the rocks! Really hurts today.
The scenery along the way was amazing. we saw local village people spear fishing for tiny little fish, thai children swimming and tubbing on the rapids. They swim here fully clothed which is a bit strange! They were all saying hello and waiving at us. The children kept throwing water over us so we in turn soaked them!
We paid to get it all captured in DVD so i can bore you with it when we get home.

We went to the night bazzar in the eveing which was ok. We bought a coconut lamp carved into a frog, some more hareem pants and a bracelet all for under a fiver! Such good value.
Along the night bazzar they have a mcdonalds, burger king, Starbucks and a subway. we have even seen a tesco, boots and the bodyshop since we arrived. Amazing!
Anyway very tired so now going to sleep. Night!