Saturday, February 21, 2009

Thailand trip, part 2

Here's some more of the things we did in Thailand, when we went out of Bangkok. We went to the Salt Farm at Samhoot Songfram. It was really fun - we watched people collect salt. They make the salt by letting the sea water dry and then after about a week they are left with salt.
We went to another place and saw some people making sugar from coconut flowers at the Orchid Farm in Rachaburi. They make it by boiling the flowers.

Then we went to another place called the Floating Market in Damnoen Saduak. There were lots of shops on water. We went on a small boat and when we wanted to buy something the people in the shops on the water would grab our boat and pull us to their shop.

It was very crowded with shoppers in boats but it was really fun. It was hard to get back to the shore because it was so crowded with boats. At Elephant Village we got to ride on an elephant. If you have a camera the elephant master will get off the elephant and take photos and videos of you. When the rider gets off he sometimes lets you ride on the elephants neck, but my mum did not let me. That wasn't fair because my dad let my big brother ride on the elephants neck for their elephant. I liked riding the elephant because it was very high. For me, this was the best part of the holiday.
We went to Samphran to see more elephants. They played elephant football and all but 2 of the elephants scored a goal. Then they did a pretend battle with the elephants to show how they went into a war with elephants in the old times. They fired pretend canon balls that made a big bang and made real fire. But they didn't hit anybody.
Then we went for lunch at Rose Garden and we went to see a show there. The show was about Thai people and how they lived. First they did traditional Thai music and they also did Thai boxing, which they didn't actually hurt each other in. Then they had a fight with real swords and when the woman's sword got knocked out of her hand she kept slapping the man's face.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I didn't let you ride the elephant because you are only a little monkey! Love, mum xx

Unknown said...

I didn't let you ride the elephant because you are only a little monkey! Love, mum xx