After our drivers turned up, we got on some motorbikes for only the 3rd time ever to start a 5 day 4 night adventure!
The initial stop was to a post box to let Imogen go post some letters... Very exciting and bums not too sore yet!
First actual stop for the day was to look over a nice view where a resort was being built. Apparently the building of the resort was moving very slowly because the manager was stealing money from the funds! Near the resort, we also saw Turtle Island which slightly resembled a turtle (more than Koh Tao did at least!).
Next stop was to get petrol but it was a petrol station right next to a local fishing port! We saw people rowing along it what looked like should have been big baskets, a strange looking dead fish and people just generally doing their day to day work! One lady was particularly efficient at sorting through shellfish caught.
We then went to a pagoda, a Buddhist temple. This was really gorgeous and peaceful with some faint music playing from somewhere. It was completely deserted except a small girl who was waving at us when she saw us!
Next we saw some people making bricks. They used a really simple machine to pour in ingredients and out comes a continuous flow of soft brick! This gets cut and then set out in the sun to dry then in a furnace to bake.
Then we stopped at a very small ethnic minority village. The house was long and low and is where every member of the family stays.There was a very cute and shy child in one of the windows who wanted to come see us but was a bit too shy! A family on the other side of the road all came out and shouted their hellos at us!
Then we traveled up into the mountains. The views were absolutely stunning and the roads were really fun! We stopped at the workshop of a man who made really cool looking furniture out of really old wood. He had a couple of dogs and monkeys, we fed the monkeys a banana each!
We next stopped at a coffee plantation, which we were both obviously very excited about seeing! The beans were not how expected them to be at all! After this during our drive we drove through a village where children actually ran out of their houses to come and see us and say hello! It was just like you see on TV and so nice.
Next, we stopped somewhere they were taking the skin off green beans. The people that worked here were very nice and we got a picture with them (which will eventually be uploaded) where we got asked to crouch so they didn't look so short!
The last thing we saw before our hotel for the night were some large machines pumping sand out from the river bed. This gets used to make cement! During the final leg of the day we also some farmers who had managed to get their tractor stuck in the rice paddy!
After the continuation of more amazing scenery we arrived at our hotel. We had a room with a veranda that led straight out onto Lak Lake, it was beautiful! While we were sitting out on our veranda, Imogen left her handbag on the floor and when she picked it up got bitten. She then realised her bag was covered everywhere with ants! Just before our dinner we noticed our room was actually covered in insects, good thing we had mosquito nets!
Bum soreness level: Quite sore
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