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G’day all,

Well I’m back home in little old Adelaide and as always it feels bloody weird to be home. The worst thing is that everything reminds me of Holly again. My last week in Thailand was pretty cool but I thought of Holly a lot which kind of spoilt me trying to enjoy myself. I had only a few days back in Bangkok before heading up to Chang Mai to start my jungle hike. I headed up to Chang Mai with my American mate Matt’s friend Zach who is also a legend and from Washington DC too. We walked with two groups of people on our three day hike. The first group were all annoying Korean girls who wore heels and took hand bags with them. Zach and I had an entertaining time watching them slip over onto their arses and sliding down muddy slopes because they couldn’t keep their feet. On our first day we first did our elephant walk which we found quite cruel. These mongrels that ran the joint slashed the poor elephants’ heads with a knife when they misbehaved then and also whacked them in the head with a big sharp metal hook to steer them. Apart from that is was good fun and we enjoyed our ride. After the elephant ride it was time to walk and our 2 hour walk ended up taking 4 hours thanks to our not so talkative Korean mates. After walking through rice fields all day we finally got to a little self sufficient village where we were greeted by a tribe and had an early nights sleep in a bamboo hut. On the second day we split from our Korean mates and met up with these cool English dudes and a nice Danish sheila for the rest of our hike. We could actually talk to these guys and they were good fun. We pretty much just walked all day long and saw a few spiders. At night we had a bit of grub and played this cool card game all night whilst having the odd Chang beer. On our last day we had a bit of a tough jungle walk and got lost for a good hour and had to cut our way through vines to find out way back to the track. We eventually got to this big waterfall where we swam and got pounded and massaged and almost drowned by the thick waves of water. It was then time for our bamboo rafting adventure and that was wicked fun. We went down a few light rapids for a good hour or more before finishing at this pond where we jumped off some rocks in the water and it was great fun. The trek was really cool and I ended up seeing a couple of snakes and a heap of spiders and lots of great scenery too. When returning to Chang Mai I had only a couple of hours to see the sites and all I really saw was this sweet old Buddhist temple that was almost reduced to rubble it was so old. I got the whole back seat of the bus for the ride back to Bangkok and ended up having a pretty good sleep. My whole last 2 days of Thailand were spent shopping until I couldn’t shop any longer. I spent so many hours looking at funky 3 buck t-shirts that I froze up and hardly bought any thing at the end because it gave me a massive headache. Everything is so cheap in Thailand that it’s almost worth it just coming there for a shopping holiday. My flight home was a bit of a shocker because the air conditioning in the plane was stuffed and it was pretty much 30 degrees and humid for the first 2 hours of the flight. I had a fair old crowd at the airport welcoming me home and it was a nice touch after such a rough few weeks of my life. Well that’s all for this trip, I hope the blog wasn’t too boring for you, watch out for my next trip whenever and wherever it will be.

Thanks for your support and reading,

Pauly

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