EtiHad & Elephants

Are you Stupa or Wat:
- we only just realised that if the above phrase is said with an inner-city Dublin accent, it has two meanings! And to answer the question; it's a Stupa in the pic.

So we had flights.
We changed them.
But supposedly it's not all cleared fully.
But we have them.
But the tickets aren't issued.
But we have our confirmation itinerary.

Planes piss me off.
Also, in public response to Nelbert's comment. Yes, I have been cursing more since all this has started. I think I may be grumpy after having to leave Laos waaaaay before I wanted to!
So I'll but my bag of swear words back in the cupboard again.
Sorry about that! :)

Sure we wouldn't be us without going to a temple:

- The big Buddha at the back looks deceptively small in these pics, but I assure you he was massive, and vaguely looming, you almost felt he was going to stand up, and beat the crap out of everyone. - Crap isn't a swear word really, is it?!

The Jade Buddha:

- 900kg of Solid Jade.

Dave loves Elephants, well I do to, but Dave loves them also. He wanted to do some Elephant riding, so after much research in Laos, we found out that their Elephants were captured wild ones, and thus, had to be bet into submission for their Elephant parks. Whereas here in Chiang Mai, they're born into it.

We chose the most reputable eco-company we could find, and went around the jungle.
Pics!:
Enter the Elephants!

They've 78 Elephants in the camp, from babies to elders(If I can call them that!)

Now for some seriously tourist looking shots...I can assure you, the Elephant, who's name was Poo Kau(Age 34) was well into posing, but also keen to head off up the mountain without the other dude. We, however, were not into that. At all.

Lord of the Rings anyone?:

Twas off for a drink then, but he decided he wanted to get into the river and walk back though it. Twas gas craic!

A quick wipe of the trunk and we were out of there:

Where to next?

We're going to go to the King's birthday celebrations later on tonight. There's no beer to be served on this one day of the year in Thailand, so we'll have an early night, and be ready for our two flights to Bangkok in the morning, and Singapore later tomorrow night.

My phone is acting up since it started working here in Thailand again, so long story short. Heading to the Green Olive on Wednesday night for the session at 10PM.

Be there!

Ahhh no, if you're about, pop in. :)