Spring Break in Thailand - Part One

Well, it has been a while since we've posted. It seems that the time between Christmas and Spring Breaks is incredibly busy and therefore, less blog posts. So sorry!
Suffice to say, going to Bangkok was quite the experience. The city has over 14 million people in it. Just the city. The country of Lebanon has 4 million....total. We had chances to leave the city which was good but it took a minimum of an hour to just get out of the city itself. Here are some pictures of our first day. We went on a tour which took us to a few places including Khao Yai National Park. Our first stop was to a local market. You know me, I love looking at different foods that people buy and sell. Here are some examples of what we saw:

Not full sure what this stuff was to be honest but is smelled interesting.

Eel anyone? 

This woman sold a variety of seafood including eel, snails, fish, crawdads, and frogs

Very hot peppers

Flowers were sold everywhere we went

Just sitting there ready to eat!

We then stopped at a local farm to take an ox cart ride and have lunch. 

There were a few dogs there. This one seemed to own the place.

Water tower

The girls wearing traditional farmers hats

Our cart

We got back and had the opportunity to make some really nice food. All of it was fresh.

Tim cooking. Yes, it was pretty cool!

We were on a tour with a couple from Singapore and another couple from Australia. A very nice group.  

Lunch!

More Lunch!

These things looked like apples, had the texture of apple...didn't taste like apples. Tasted good though!

Our cook insisted on having a picture with us.

Yes, we did hike into the waterfall but sadly, it was very dry.

These posts were in a variety of places along the path. They are there to block the elephants from knocking down some of the buildings in the park. No, we didn't see any elephants...only elephant poo!

This guy came to say hi. He was not shy at all.

This was the stairway down to the trickle of a waterfall. Sadly, I did not venture down. Eventually, Tim will add a couple of pictures.

We then went to a place to see elephants. I did do a little research and found that this place, while they still had rides, they treated the elephants in a humane manner. I am hoping my resources were correct.

Tim and Janna in front of us.

This is Cherry. She stopped to eat a couple of times.

Yes, it was a great day. We had a wonderful time together seeing the countryside.  Yes, I will post at least two more blogs about Thailand in the near future.