In the jungle, the mighty jungle...

You haven't really lived until you've been charged by an elephant while on a motorbike. Let me preface this with the fact that Levi and I reallllly like the motorbikes and felt the need to rent one again today. This time we took off for the Koeng Krachen National Park, aka, the jungle. We filled up with petrol and took off full speed. Just as a side note, I DID put on suncreen, SPF 55 to be exact and STILL got burned. Anyways, my goal for the day was to see and elephant in the wild and a waterfall. Pala U waterfall seemed to be pretty well noted and in the park so that seemed a reasonable destination. Flying through fields of pineapples, bananas, papayas, mangos and sugar cane we eventually reached our destination. The waterfall however, not impressive. Should have known, its the "dry" season afterall. We did get in a nice hike through the hotter than hell jungle though! Crusin' back cars kept flashing their lights at us... were ours not on? Stopped to check. They worked... Hm. Kept going. Apparently the flashing lights meant that there were wild elephants in the road! YES! I had to take a picture so we stopped. As I pulled out my camera, it charged! Maybe it doesn't sound to scary but when you're in the open, in the jungle, on a flimsy motorbike and a 2 ton animal with tusks runs toward you, it's a little different. Still way cool :) Again ahead, more elephants. Same deal :) Running out of petrol we stopped to fuel up and I spotted the sign for Hua Hin Hills Vineyard with ELEPHANTS! I made Levi go. Winding through rough roads, poor villages and roadside stands we eventually arrived at the vineyard. SO pretty... and there were elephants :) They actually use the elephants to help with the picking of the grapes and keep the barrels on the backs of them. Headed back to Hua Hin where I currently site in an internet cafe with Levi, stuffed from Singha beer and delicious food :) Tomorrow I believe we're catching the train south to Chumphon, a city made for transit to and from the islands in the gulf. Gotta check the weather and see how the flooding situation's going down there which will determine our plans for the rest of my trip... Hope all's well back home!! xxoo