illness and elephants

and then I went to a Thai hospital where two doctors examined me and gave me some antibiotics. Then we got back on the bikes and as i was trying to pull away, lost control of the bike as it was on gravel by the side of the road and fell over with it! only grazed my legs luckily but it shook me up. most common bike accident here. We then took 1.5 hours to get back to our hotel because we kept getting lost and in the end called the receptionist who drove his bike out to us then we followed him back. We later walked to a nearby hotel and had some greeen curry yum yum then got an early night cos the next day we had elephant trekking booked to be picked up at 9am!!


Our tour took us first to a hot spring, which was as warm as a bath, and then to Emerald pool which was a turquoise pool in the middle of the jungle. Amazing. Then we went back in the van and got to Tiger Temple, where you have the option of climbing 1237 steps to get to the big buddha at the top - i did about 300 then got vertigo and turned back! Proper steep steps!!! crazy monks! THEN we got to the elephants and rode in a carriage type thing on the back and then took it in turns to sit on the neck! there was a little Tarzan controlling and steering it with a stick and taking a thousand photos of us. It was so good, then we got to feed them, and their mouths are like some weird alien shit!! weird pink tongue vacuum!!! we were shattered but when we got back, we had a surprise visit from Jai and Albie who turned up at our villa and so we caiught up over some drinks and then got on it!!!

For the past two days ive been in bed with food poisioning which has been horrible. Fever, and toilet visits ever few hours. We got a boat with Jai and Albie to an Island called Poda which was so beautiful. The waters were turquoise and i did a bit of snorkelling and there were tiger fish (black and yellow) and Jai drove the boat back. It started pissing down when we reached Krabi again so I got in a tuk tuk as i was feeling pretty queasy and have been in bed ever since! got up tonight to come out to feel a bit better and to book tomorrows adventure. We are taking a bus and boat to Koh Samui. I have now got two bites on my FACE which is fun.