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28 May
We woke up to the calls for breakfast of the guide, got dressed and headed for fresh coffee. Breakfast was fire grilled toast with some type of fruit jam. After breakfast we headed out on the trek, having greeted the other group and two Germans from our group who were now heading back.
The trek was tiring but the pace was not really that fast, the guide however made a point of stopping every 20 minutes to first shoot stones with a catapult at different objects. This was very amusing to the two Dutch guys who had never before had the opportunity of playing with them, we partook but left most of the shooting to them seeing as we had grown up with them.
After two hours we stopped at a house in the forest where the resident came down from the upper level with a bag of 2 minute noodles. The guide prepared it over a fire after which we rested for 30 minutes with the idea of setting out for the last 2 hours trek. Thing is it started pouring and the trek was postponed for about an hour. We lay there under the upper level watching the rain fall, taking a few pic's before curling up in blankets to keep warm.
The last 1 ½ hours went quickly to the village where we arrived again just before another downpour. We walked around taking pictures of the animals roaming around and a man taking a shower at a public tap while waterbuffalo look on. As the rain started falling we all headed for a shower which was also just a 1 m elevated tap before heading for dinner. Dinner was Tom Yam soup (water soup) and rice with pumpkin and vegetables.
After this we spent the evening in the village chiefs house (open bungalow) with a fire in the background. He had entertained us the evening with tricks and puzzles that other tourists had taught him, unfortunately he had been able to get the better of us with most of them. We were also entertained by the village 'crazy person' (or so he appeared to us to be). He apparantly used opium a lot and also quite a lot of their natural weed - I think it has taken it's toll! Sometime during the evening he started eating a type of "rysmier" - some he just put directly in his mouth, while others he held over the candle for a few seconds first...After a bit of joking and cajoling each of us tried one - tasted like a bit of burnt nothing! After lots of laughs we headed to bed on our bamboo beds surrounded with a mosquito net that had more holes than cover.
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