Whistle Stop Tour of Cambodia and Laos... without a whistle...uhm, not an actual tour.... but lots of STOPS.
Where did I leave off last time then? Ah yes, I was on the verge of leaving (and insanity no doubt) to the depths of Thailand’s jungle: Khao Yai National Park. A huge tract of untouched, pristine, wild undulating rainforest in the Isaan Province, where more than 100 wild elephants, average of 1 million tourists per year (mostly Thai) and an insurmountable number of terrestritigers, gibbons, macaques, hornbills, samba deer, and the buffalo roam. (no, I do not work for the Thai National Park Service.... yet... and I just HAD to add the last one in too!). That plus an al blood-sucking leeches! Freaky things (the leeches, but to a lesser extent, the Thais). I had to wear ridiculous looking white canvas leech socks - more like gaiters -(these could be the final touch to my eccentric travel wear of baby howler monkey from Costa Rica as scarf, spider monkey juveniles from Mexico as moon boots, and Thai leech socks! Hhhmmm, would be a little naked though.... will have to revise my new line of ...