Hello people, Yesterday we took a tour to the elephant village, where we met children from the Karen tribe, saw baby elephants, bathed with the big elephants in the river, and then went elephant trekking into the sunset. On our arrival at the village, children as young as 2 and 3 appeared from the huts and ran to greet us. They took our hands and escorted us down to the riverbank. so sweet. Dean and I had brought balloons along for the children, and sp...

Hello people, Well we arrived in Kanchanaburi two days ago, ready to hammer on with our adventure after my flu setback. Then, would you believe it, Dean gets ill. Well, we're certainly getting what we pay for in terms of accommodation. In our last few days in Bangkok we visited the zoo, where we saw crocs, bears, tigers, lions, hippos and snakes among other things. We also took a pedal boat around the lake which was full of big monitors (like a cross b...