12:51 PM Saturday
15-Jan-2005
Bangkok, Thailand
RAIN! Yikes, it doesn't rain here in January. This is part of the "dry" season. Ha! Actually, it can and does sometimes but this is my third time in this city in the month of January and today I need an umbrella for the first time. I always pack it so that is no problem however this cool rainy day is such a change from the sunny and hot days of the past week.
Anyway, since my last entry here I took a very enjoyable tour to Khao Yai National Park. That was a three hour drive each way. Once in the park we had to slow several times because of many Gibbon monkeys along the highway. Also encountered many of them at one campsite parking lot as they raided dumpsters looking for food. At that particular site we took a trek into the jungle. It is very, very dry now and the country needs rain desparately else the forests and range lands of central and northern Thailand are in danger from possible wild fires. (Today's light rain won't stem that possibility.) As we started our trek into the forest, one couple came our hurredly claiming they had encountered an Anaconda or some other big snake. After much discussion with my tour guide and others who had gathered to make the same trek, we all went in en mass, making a lot of noise, and encountered no dangerous animals or reptiles. Visits to various waterfalls proved to be fruitless as many are now dried up. One of the bigger ones did have water but it was a shadow of what it could be during the rainy season.
Earlier in the week Eddy and I took a drive down to the "Ancient City" at Muang Boran which is not to be confused with the ancient capital of Ayutthaya. The "Ancient City" park has many replicas of temples and other structures from Thailand's past, some of which are reduced in scale for the park. Tomorrow, weather permitting, we plan to visit Safari World and one or two other places.
Tuesday I leave for Chiang Mai in northern Thailand where I will spend one week prior to returning home.
15-Jan-2005
Bangkok, Thailand
RAIN! Yikes, it doesn't rain here in January. This is part of the "dry" season. Ha! Actually, it can and does sometimes but this is my third time in this city in the month of January and today I need an umbrella for the first time. I always pack it so that is no problem however this cool rainy day is such a change from the sunny and hot days of the past week.
Anyway, since my last entry here I took a very enjoyable tour to Khao Yai National Park. That was a three hour drive each way. Once in the park we had to slow several times because of many Gibbon monkeys along the highway. Also encountered many of them at one campsite parking lot as they raided dumpsters looking for food. At that particular site we took a trek into the jungle. It is very, very dry now and the country needs rain desparately else the forests and range lands of central and northern Thailand are in danger from possible wild fires. (Today's light rain won't stem that possibility.) As we started our trek into the forest, one couple came our hurredly claiming they had encountered an Anaconda or some other big snake. After much discussion with my tour guide and others who had gathered to make the same trek, we all went in en mass, making a lot of noise, and encountered no dangerous animals or reptiles. Visits to various waterfalls proved to be fruitless as many are now dried up. One of the bigger ones did have water but it was a shadow of what it could be during the rainy season.
Earlier in the week Eddy and I took a drive down to the "Ancient City" at Muang Boran which is not to be confused with the ancient capital of Ayutthaya. The "Ancient City" park has many replicas of temples and other structures from Thailand's past, some of which are reduced in scale for the park. Tomorrow, weather permitting, we plan to visit Safari World and one or two other places.
Tuesday I leave for Chiang Mai in northern Thailand where I will spend one week prior to returning home.
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