into the hills to go visit the local hill tribes, go bamboo boat rafting, and also explore the region via elephant for an afternoon. The elephant excursion was quite interesting most notably was watching how docile these large creatures are traversing steep, narrow inclines and declines. We also bought them food along the route and the elephants scarf 
down foot long pieces of sugar cane and bushels of 8-12 bananas in seconds. The elephants took us through the jungle and also across rivers until we finally stopped off for lunch in a local village.
down foot long pieces of sugar cane and bushels of 8-12 bananas in seconds. The elephants took us through the jungle and also across rivers until we finally stopped off for lunch in a local village.The next trip was for us to go river rafting and as our bus arrived and we walked down to the river we were 
able to watch the locals put together about 8 pieces of bamboo by tying them together with a reed from a local tree. We hopped on our boat and since Matt was in the back he was quickly given a stick, told to stand (while everyone else sat down), and to steer! Well, as most of you who know Matt, a challenge like this is what he lives for and within minutes we are sailing down the river gliding perfectly between rocks and over falls all while he is somehow balancing himself up on the back of our "floating stick boat". Well, other boats thought Matt made it look to easy so they took shots at trying to knock him off by running into our raft and trying to pelt us with fruits from local trees - of which Matt just used the stick as a bat and knocked them away. All in all, our boat members stayed dry and we had one heck of a ride! It was lots of fun. After a full day we headed back to our hotel and had dinner before starting to pack for our trip to Bangkok.
able to watch the locals put together about 8 pieces of bamboo by tying them together with a reed from a local tree. We hopped on our boat and since Matt was in the back he was quickly given a stick, told to stand (while everyone else sat down), and to steer! Well, as most of you who know Matt, a challenge like this is what he lives for and within minutes we are sailing down the river gliding perfectly between rocks and over falls all while he is somehow balancing himself up on the back of our "floating stick boat". Well, other boats thought Matt made it look to easy so they took shots at trying to knock him off by running into our raft and trying to pelt us with fruits from local trees - of which Matt just used the stick as a bat and knocked them away. All in all, our boat members stayed dry and we had one heck of a ride! It was lots of fun. After a full day we headed back to our hotel and had dinner before starting to pack for our trip to Bangkok.
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