Oh my goodness a blog post is way past do! Our apologies, Amy is stuck in Thailand an extra night so it will just be me updating on loads and loads of adventuring!
Alright so during the weekdays we are still working and loving our jobs and still learning lots and getting so much great experience that will have to be a separate blog post altogether when Amy can inform you a little better on her half.
Last weekend we ventured to the beautiful town of Mondul Kiri which is all country side and not many people. We stayed at the best lodge yet which had cows and tiny horses roaming around everywhere, it had great food and even better staff! But that wasn't the best part, the best part was we got to go on an elephant for a better part of a day! It was so incredible! We rode through the jungles with two people per elephant in a bamboo basket on top of them with an elephant guide sitting on their neck for 2 hours! The elephants stopped often to grab some leaves and other goodies to eat and it was just an absolutely amazing view and it took us a while to comprehend that we were actually on top of an elephant! Then we stopped for lunch at a waterfall where the elephants were unloaded and let free to roam around for 2 hours while we jumped off the water fall, swam, ate lunch, hammocked and talked to our guides (one looked like an asian version of Jacob Black for sure). Then they brought the elephants to the water fall and we got to help bathe them! Which was awesome and kind of scary because the one I got on was the young playful one that liked to go all the way underwater to make us fall off like a game but it was definitely an amazing and unique experience! And then we were given the opportunity to take turns riding on the elephants neck which was beyond the most amazing thing I feel like I have ever gotten to do! They were such majestic and incredible creations and it was so amazing getting to ride through the jungle basically attached to another part of God's creation in such a natural and untouched environment. All in all this quite possibly could have been the best weekend of my life so far, it is really indescribable but everyone should get a chance to experience God's love through his creation in this way!
This weekend Amy went to Thailand and I went with a group to Battambang, which is definitely the type of town I would live in if I were to live in Cambodia long term. It was a shockingly peaceful town with the nicest folks and the cutest kids that were always ecstatic to see our tuk-tuk driving by. We got to see so many things as soon as we jumped off of our sketchy midnight bus, we hopped in a tuk-tuk and let him take us everywhere he knew to take us for the whole day! So we saw the river side and beautiful government buildings as well as a Cambodian wedding, then we hopped on the bamboo train which literally was like a raft of bamboo on track poles with an engine attached and went much faster than i ever expected and felt like a magic carpet ride through the country side! Then we tuk-tuked to Wat Banan which is similar to the temples at Angkor Wat but had what felt like half a million steps to climb up to the top; and then we finally made our way to Phnom Sampeau which is a pretty historical mountain outside of Battambang which holds the Killing Cave (similar to the Killing Fields), 2 other caves to explore, tons of friendly monkeys to feed as well as monks walking around all the other temples and large Buddha statues on the mountain. And as we came down from the top millions of bats were flying from one of the caves out into the country side for feeding time, there are so many of them they continually fly out in groups for at least an hour! And then we were dropped back off at the guest house showered and took on the town to find dinner where we found MEXICAN FOOD! I hadn't had it in so long it was soooo good! We split all sorts of main dishes and it really was a great break from Cambodian food, absolutely fabulous! Then we called it a pretty early night in our air conditioned rooms! A wonderful nights sleep, followed by our friendly tuk tuk driver taking us to more places, many of them to try local foods and unique places like where rice paper is made and the fish factory, then we drove by more monuments and temples and then made it to the crocodile farm that had over 1200 crocodiles, ages ranging from just born that morning that we got to hold to 70 years old, terribly frightening but awesome!
And then today I got to visit the wildlife sanctuary that Amy visited a few weekends ago and I got to get very friendly with a few of the monkeys and learned why you don't kiss the monkeys, saw slow loris' and every sort of jungle book animal, pumba off the lion king and even a dancing elephant! It was so lovely! Sorry this was so long but lots of updates and the post was way over due!
We love ya'll! Lehi!
-Just Shakin' out for now
Alright so during the weekdays we are still working and loving our jobs and still learning lots and getting so much great experience that will have to be a separate blog post altogether when Amy can inform you a little better on her half.
Last weekend we ventured to the beautiful town of Mondul Kiri which is all country side and not many people. We stayed at the best lodge yet which had cows and tiny horses roaming around everywhere, it had great food and even better staff! But that wasn't the best part, the best part was we got to go on an elephant for a better part of a day! It was so incredible! We rode through the jungles with two people per elephant in a bamboo basket on top of them with an elephant guide sitting on their neck for 2 hours! The elephants stopped often to grab some leaves and other goodies to eat and it was just an absolutely amazing view and it took us a while to comprehend that we were actually on top of an elephant! Then we stopped for lunch at a waterfall where the elephants were unloaded and let free to roam around for 2 hours while we jumped off the water fall, swam, ate lunch, hammocked and talked to our guides (one looked like an asian version of Jacob Black for sure). Then they brought the elephants to the water fall and we got to help bathe them! Which was awesome and kind of scary because the one I got on was the young playful one that liked to go all the way underwater to make us fall off like a game but it was definitely an amazing and unique experience! And then we were given the opportunity to take turns riding on the elephants neck which was beyond the most amazing thing I feel like I have ever gotten to do! They were such majestic and incredible creations and it was so amazing getting to ride through the jungle basically attached to another part of God's creation in such a natural and untouched environment. All in all this quite possibly could have been the best weekend of my life so far, it is really indescribable but everyone should get a chance to experience God's love through his creation in this way!
This weekend Amy went to Thailand and I went with a group to Battambang, which is definitely the type of town I would live in if I were to live in Cambodia long term. It was a shockingly peaceful town with the nicest folks and the cutest kids that were always ecstatic to see our tuk-tuk driving by. We got to see so many things as soon as we jumped off of our sketchy midnight bus, we hopped in a tuk-tuk and let him take us everywhere he knew to take us for the whole day! So we saw the river side and beautiful government buildings as well as a Cambodian wedding, then we hopped on the bamboo train which literally was like a raft of bamboo on track poles with an engine attached and went much faster than i ever expected and felt like a magic carpet ride through the country side! Then we tuk-tuked to Wat Banan which is similar to the temples at Angkor Wat but had what felt like half a million steps to climb up to the top; and then we finally made our way to Phnom Sampeau which is a pretty historical mountain outside of Battambang which holds the Killing Cave (similar to the Killing Fields), 2 other caves to explore, tons of friendly monkeys to feed as well as monks walking around all the other temples and large Buddha statues on the mountain. And as we came down from the top millions of bats were flying from one of the caves out into the country side for feeding time, there are so many of them they continually fly out in groups for at least an hour! And then we were dropped back off at the guest house showered and took on the town to find dinner where we found MEXICAN FOOD! I hadn't had it in so long it was soooo good! We split all sorts of main dishes and it really was a great break from Cambodian food, absolutely fabulous! Then we called it a pretty early night in our air conditioned rooms! A wonderful nights sleep, followed by our friendly tuk tuk driver taking us to more places, many of them to try local foods and unique places like where rice paper is made and the fish factory, then we drove by more monuments and temples and then made it to the crocodile farm that had over 1200 crocodiles, ages ranging from just born that morning that we got to hold to 70 years old, terribly frightening but awesome!
And then today I got to visit the wildlife sanctuary that Amy visited a few weekends ago and I got to get very friendly with a few of the monkeys and learned why you don't kiss the monkeys, saw slow loris' and every sort of jungle book animal, pumba off the lion king and even a dancing elephant! It was so lovely! Sorry this was so long but lots of updates and the post was way over due!
We love ya'll! Lehi!
-Just Shakin' out for now
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