Last night was the biggest night for the Loy Krathong festival. We saw thousands of lanterns floating up in the sky. Some were colored, most were white. Some were big and some were small. Some people wrote their wishes on theirs, and some people made their wishes silently. Some of them had sparklers and fireworks Read More …
When you are an elephant owner for a day, you have to learn how to communicate with your new, very big, friend. We learned some vocabulary: Non long – lie down Look – stand up Didi – Good boy or good girl, it is the same Bai – move forward or “go” How – Read More …
The best thing we did in our 5 days in Chiang Mai was that we got to go to an elephant farm called Patara and take care of an elephant for the entire day. My elephant’s name was Tap-Thong. She was a big girl. To introduce ourselves to the elephants, we got to feed them Read More …
Halfway between our road trip from Bangkok to Sukhothai, we stopped in Lop Buri. In Lop Buri, there is an annual festival called the Monkey Feast or the Monkey Party. The city is known as the Monkey City and there are monkeys all over the place. Monkeys are supposed to be good luck. A hotel owner Read More …
