Today was a day of being a tourist. Which, isn't my favorite thing. But, I got to see and do and experience a lot of very unique things. Our day started out with an elephant ride. This was probably my favorite part of the whole day. We rode elephants through a very dense green area. My friend had a bag of bananas, and the elephant grabbed the bananas, bag and all, and ate it. Good thing her camera wasn't in the bag! Don't know how well elephants digest plastic!
Next, we took a trip down the river on a bamboo raft. The raft consisted of 9 bamboos bound together. We sat on them and floated down the river. This was actually quite fun. And wet!
After lunch, we got to see a waterfall, followed by a hiked. We hiked for about an hour to a village that looked very much like most villages I have seen in Cambodia. I was hoping to see some of the tribal people in their natural habitat, but we merely saw an uninhabited house and some people that tried to sell us some stuff.
The day ended with yet another river adventure. This one on rubber canoes. There were giant jumping spiders that would jump into our canoe. I was in a panic and started yelling and swatting at the big spider with my paddle, completely forgetting I was supposed to be steering the boat. We started going in circles, and I could not get rid of the spider! This happened more than once. Scary at the time, but we got a good laugh at it later!
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