Our last day in Thailand, we decided to go on an adventure, and be more like tourists for a change. So Seth and I rode out somewhere in the jungle with our Thai tour guide to an elephant park near a river. Riding an elephant is definitely a unique experience, and well, pretty cool. While I had joked that they use elephants as taxis in Thailand, I was pretty pumped to actually get on one. It's harder to balance up there than it looks.
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| I couldn't get over how funny those ears look close up |
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| A friendly giant |
After saying goodbye to our elephant, we hopped onto a raft to take on the river rapids. We met some Indian software engineers and a couple from Israel in our group. Our guide taught us commands in broken English such as, "Forward!" and "Get down!" as well as procedures for how to get out from under a rock if you fall out. We had a blast, and got cooled down by splashing waves too.
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| You can see the determination here as we prepare for the next rapid |
Especially after focusing on the construction project, design work, and networking it was good to get out and have a little adventure. This was a great way to end our time in Thailand, definitely an experience of a lifetime that I won't soon forget.
so which one's the "friendly giant"? the one on the left or the right? i can't tell.
ReplyDeleteHa yeah we were a pair of giants I guess.
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