It was really cold.
Before setting off.
Heading to our first destination. Butterfly farm.
Strangely, there was not a single butterfly inside.
Outside the butterfly farm was an orchid garden.
Next was elephant riding.
Arrived at the start of the elephant ride.
Joanne feeding the elephants.
Going up.
Every now and then, it would raise its nose up, hoping that we would feed it with banana or sugarcane. And it would also share its smelly breath with us. :s
The elephant Ryan and Shuqin were riding on raised its nose so near that it scared the freak out of Aileen. Hahahahaha .. :)
The end point of the ride.
Vincent feeding it with our last sugarcane.
Next, the guide lead us to the river crossing site. We would cross the river inside a cage.
The guide on the starting end used his bare hands to hold on to the fast moving rope. He kept blowing at his palms after each of our trips across the river. We felt really pitiful for him. The amount of hardship you had to endure to earn money. I did not bring my wallet with me so was unable to give him some tips as a reward. But Shuqin did hand him some money. Hope that he would use it to get a pair of gloves or something.
Out next activity was hiking. We would hike up to the waterfall at the top of the mountain which was luckily not that high.
We finally arrived!
The water was really cold.
The guide had brought our lunch along with him. There was fried beehoon, bananas, pineapples and pomelos.
Setting off back to our vehicle.
Now, its water rafting time!
It was just a short journey. The current was not that strong too. We alighted from the boats and hopped onto bamboo rafts!
The bamboo raft ride was short too. Basically it was more like just letting us have a try on them. Well, what can we do when we wanted to many activities squeezed into 1 day.
Our last destination was to see the long necked people.
It was a long day. Very fun too. We made our way back to our hotel. Originally we planned to go to the start point for the free pasta party but decided it was too late to do so. We were also worried there may not be enough food for us. So we had dinner at the hotel restaurant again.
As it was Christmas, the hotel had organised a small BBQ and all the guests were invited. So we continued to eat after our dinner. But I did not eat too much as most of the food was oily and I was scared I would get stomachache tomorrow morning.
Returned to my room and packed my stuff for tomorrow's race. Also did some packing as I would fly back to Singapore after the race while the rest would stay on.
Time to rest. My body needs to recover from all the activities today.
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