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Thailand! 

 

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 In the sex district the streets are lined with neon signs and my favorite was simply "Super Pussy"

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 Long boats, colorful, thin wooden boats with enormously long engines. 

A monk smoking cigarettes and listening to an iPod.

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Chiang Mai 

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Wat Umong, a jungle temple. 

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RUN, DON'T WALK TO THIS ELEPHANT NATURE PARK!!!! 

Washing the elephants.

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Planting food for the elephants.

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Week two at the park and our group is preparing to leave on the "Jumbo Express," eight hours in the back of a truck and one or two nights up in villages in the mountains to treat the people and their livestock and then do public relation visits to some schools.

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Volunteers.

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Monkeys in Lobbhuri.

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I caught a bus to Ayuthaya, the old capitol. 

I went on a snorkeling tour around the island, Ko Tao with a boat full of young adult Thais from Bangkok who had all studied in the U.S. We had a really nice time and the fishies are gorgeous.

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 Left the din of Ko Tao for Ko Phangan.

 

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 We went to Namuang waterfall and I opted to go to the top.