Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the jungle! The elephants send thier best wishes and some pineapple leaves :) Been having lots of fun with the elephants here at the sanctuary in Thailand, they are so comical and regal all at the same time! They love being given water into thier trunks from a hosepipe, it makes a gurling sound like water down a drain as it goes down thier trunks! And bathing them in the lake is brilliant, sitting on them to scrub thier ...

I love this city! If it were food it would be cherry Garcia, my fav icecream which is a high accolade for one who takes her ice cream seriously! I'm kicking back here for a while, enjoying all the delights of this funky, crazy, chilled out place and wishing I could transport it to the UK. The cafes, the music, the alternative people, the harbour, the library, the pancakes, the poker, the bellydancing….I tell you, this place has it all. Even found some incredibl...

Crazy big city. Lots of tall buildings, some are especially twinky and apparently famous, though I'd never heard of the Petronus towers myself…isn't that the stag that Harry Potter expels from his wand to ward off dementors? ( now don't pretend you don't read Harry Potter too, I know the truth!) Not my cup of tea!

Its turtle time! Off to 'Turtle Island', a sanctuary for Green and Hawksbill turtles who come to lay their eggs here. Witnessing the Green turtle mother ashore laying her eggs seemed somewhat intrusive, a crowd of 40 people clustered round gazing at her rear end and being marshaled by a guy shouting 'next row move up!' is not my idea of sharing in the miracle of the turtle's life cycle. But the release of the tiny energetic hatchings from the hatchery, the ones i...

I am Jungle Julie! Living in a basic wooden hut with mesh sides and sleeping on the floor in a mosquito net, no running water and mosquito infested 'toilets', the experience has been rather authentic. Macaques stealing our lunch, water monitor lizards moseying on by at breakfast, holding scorpions before bed, crocs on the boat safari and several different types of Hornbills flying over head, it was all there….but the best, most amazing experience of all was see...