Gallery: Trekking in Khao Yai and the Bridge over River Kwai festival!

The expiditionary crew for the day, wearing trendy leech protectors.

The expiditionary crew for the day, wearing trendy leech protectors.23-Nov-2009 02:00, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 10.0, 30.0mm, 0.033 sec, ISO 100

On 18th September 1962, Khao Yai became the first national park of Thailand, and at only four hours from Bangkok one of the most popular. We’d been in cities for a while again now, and with a thirst for wildlife decided for a brief stop here on the way back from Surin. No three day hikes, just a day and a half tour, we hopped off our bus at 14:45 immediately meeting a lady on her first few days of selling tours. After a quick bit of bargaining, we managed to arrange our tour with Bobby’s Accommodation and were on our half day starting trek by 15:00 with bags in rooms. Not bad going, but was the trip itself going to be any good? Would we see the fabled Gibbon monkey? What does bat pee smell like? Continue reading Gallery: Trekking in Khao Yai and the Bridge over River Kwai festival!…

Gallery: Exploring the Bolivian Amazon in Rurrenebaque!

Whistling down Rio Yacuma enjoying the awesome kind of trek that is sitting down all day and just enjoying the view.

Whistling down Rio Yacuma enjoying the awesome kind of trek that is sitting down all day and just enjoying the view.27-Aug-2009 20:30, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 13.0, 28.0mm, 0.0025 sec, ISO 1600

South America is famous for many things, one of which is the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon. It touches many countries, and after a change of plans near the start of our trip we’d patiently waited until one of the last countries we were to visit to venture into something that really classed as “Jungle”. Which is odd, because technically it was Pampas we were exploring which is entirely different. Anyway, our departure point was Rurrenabaque, North Bolivia, and our destination was Rio Yacuma, a hotbed of wildlife that we were to leisurely observe for the next few days, and it truly was an excellent trip. Would we find any Anaconda? Did we really see Pink Dolphins? And who won the UK versus Taiwan Piranha fishing contest?

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