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throwback to reality
Posting about my travels is relatively easy, it's fun, it's vacation, exploration, learning, seeing and doing new things, being with...
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Bangkok
Bangkok and Chiang Mai are as different as New York City and Burlington Vermont. Both are defined as cities, in the same country, one is...
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The Grand Palace in Bangkok
The Grand Palace is most definitely Grand, in size and in detail. The detail in the architecture and design is intricate and beautiful,...
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Floating Market Bangkok
When our time in Chiang Mai ended, we flew to Bangkok for two days and one night...as the song goes "one night in Bangkok". Well we did...
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Thai Elephant Home
The purpose of our trip to Thailand was to volunteer with the Elephants at the Thai Elephant Home. This experience ended up being so much...
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Doi Pui Tribal Village
After visiting the famous Wat Phra That Doi Suthep temple, we went to the Hmong Tribal Village of Doi Pui. Do Pui is 1,685 metres above...
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Dung Paper
At the Elephant Conservation Center with 50 elephants there is a lot of dung! With the conservation effort in mind they put all of the...
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Lampang Elephant hospital
This is the world's first Asian Elephant hospital. It was started in 1993 by Soraida Salwala to treat elephants that are ill or injured...
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Thai Elephant Conservation
We visited the Thai Elephant Conservation center located in Lampang Thailand, where 50 Asian elephants are cared for. The center has many...
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Buddha
My grandmother is a sculptor and my favorite sculpture of hers is of the Buddha, it was her favorite as well. It's sits near an apple...