Thailand: Revisited
Yeah it was last year's trip to the country famed for its ultra spicy food, kickboxing women and trannies or ah-guas as we folk in brunei like to call them.
I remembered going to a zoo or safari of some sort in between bangkok and pattaya, no surprisingly they had all sorts of animals from zebras to real life lions! Thats fine and all, but was is a trip with out the boring parts? its only to be expected!
That time came for me and my sister when we 'unknowingly' got on the supposedly 'GREATEST RAFTWATER RIDE OF THE CENTURY'. Needless to say, i got pumped from just reading the signboard.
Parents paid about 200-500 baht for us both (and good thing too, u'll know why later), thats circa 10-25 dollars. However suspicions were raised when i noticed metal tracks underneath the 'raft'. It was then i thought 'oh boy'...
Later suspicions were confirmed when i saw 3 mechanical africans knee deep in swamp water, apparently gnarling or hunting for animals that are either seemingly tiny or experts in camoflage.
The suspicious 'Hunt'
Then there was the terrifying anaconda hanging precariously above us, and i thought 'well, at least it was just 10 bucks'
The evil anaconda that nearly 'took' us to lalaland
Then there was an elephant and monkeys, more natives, a bee hunter, a white man being 'slaughtered', yes a white man being 'slaughtered'! apparently thai ppl love to send their kids thru a fake river raft ride whilst watching in glee at the agony and pain inflicted on the white man...
All in all memorable not for its 'fear factor' or amazingness, but rather for the pathetic attempt at humoring us 'gullible' foreigners. Yes, definately sumthing to avoid in future trips but also sumthing to laugh about in 20 years!
Yeah it was last year's trip to the country famed for its ultra spicy food, kickboxing women and trannies or ah-guas as we folk in brunei like to call them.
I remembered going to a zoo or safari of some sort in between bangkok and pattaya, no surprisingly they had all sorts of animals from zebras to real life lions! Thats fine and all, but was is a trip with out the boring parts? its only to be expected!
That time came for me and my sister when we 'unknowingly' got on the supposedly 'GREATEST RAFTWATER RIDE OF THE CENTURY'. Needless to say, i got pumped from just reading the signboard.
Parents paid about 200-500 baht for us both (and good thing too, u'll know why later), thats circa 10-25 dollars. However suspicions were raised when i noticed metal tracks underneath the 'raft'. It was then i thought 'oh boy'...
Later suspicions were confirmed when i saw 3 mechanical africans knee deep in swamp water, apparently gnarling or hunting for animals that are either seemingly tiny or experts in camoflage.
The suspicious 'Hunt'
Then there was the terrifying anaconda hanging precariously above us, and i thought 'well, at least it was just 10 bucks'
The evil anaconda that nearly 'took' us to lalaland
Then there was an elephant and monkeys, more natives, a bee hunter, a white man being 'slaughtered', yes a white man being 'slaughtered'! apparently thai ppl love to send their kids thru a fake river raft ride whilst watching in glee at the agony and pain inflicted on the white man...
All in all memorable not for its 'fear factor' or amazingness, but rather for the pathetic attempt at humoring us 'gullible' foreigners. Yes, definately sumthing to avoid in future trips but also sumthing to laugh about in 20 years!
