Thailand - these are a few of our favourite things

It's now been a few days since we left Thailand for the Philippines and we've had time to get our thoughts together on an amazing month.

In the past month, we've:

• taken 4 flights
• been on 4 long distance train journeys
• take too many buses and tuk-tuks to count
• walked 212 km
• eaten our combined weight in pineapple, mango and Pad Thai
• travelled the length of this amazing country but only scratched the surface

Each of us decided to pick 5 things, good or bad, that we will remember from our time in Thailand.

Guy

1.      אגרוף תילאנדי- עשינו אימון עם כפפות

2.      המפל הלבן- כיף לטפס במפלים מבלי ליפול

3.      קקי של הפילים- הם לימדו אותנו לעשות נייר מקקי של פילים ואז אנחנו עשינו.

4.      לא אוהב שהאחים שלי מרביצים לי

5.      שייקים- אני אוהב שייקים: אבטיח, אננס, תפוזים, מנגו.

Eyal

1.      Street Food – very tasty, too much oil, my favourites were Pad Thai, spring rolls and Mango shake.

2.      The Sticky Waterfall – my favourite waterfall because we could climb up from the bottom and I love to climb.

3.      Monkeys – seeing a whole family of monkeys in Khao Sok jungle

4.      Elephant – we got to feed the elephant bananas and the elephant was free and not chained up like others we saw.

5.      Thai Boxing – it was great to punch and fight, especially with the big boxing gloves.

Mili

1.      Elephant – we saw a free elephant who was not treated badly and she was very pregnant, we fed her bananas and she ate bamboo.

2.      Elephant PooPoo – I learnt that we don’t need to cut down trees to make paper, we can use elephant poopoo and although I thought it would be איכסה, it was nice.

3.      Amazing month – we did so many things in 1 month, it went so quickly and was so much fun.

4.      Wat Ben Dan Temple – it was a huge temple and the nicest temple I saw in Thailand, with a huge Buddha lying down.

5.      Food – I really didn’t like the food at the beginning but now I love Pad Thai, spring rolls and fried rice.

Shoshi

1.      חופש- כמה שאני אוהבת את הרגשת החופש.

2.      טבע- המקום בו אני מרגישה הכי רגועה.

3.      קו סאק- כתבנו עליו הרבה. פשוט מקום מקסים.

4.      פאי- מקום שהייתי יכולה לעבור לגור בו לתקופה ארוכה.

5.      אוכל רחוב- טעים, פשוט, אמיתי ומהיר.

Darren

1.      Khao Sok – just an amazing place that will live long in the memory, especially our day on the lake and seeing a group of monkeys in the wild.

2.     Kids – Getting kids up for school in the morning can be tough enough so traveling 24/7, week after week is a challenge for anyone, especially a Scotsman who lacks patience.

3.      Pai – a magical place that we would happily have spent much more than our 6 days there.

4.      Cities – confirmation that we really don’t like cities and how that will affect our planning for the next 9 months.

5.      Beers - sharing 2 beers with my wife in 4 weeks wasn't my expected alcohol intake but it's certainly good for my health.