Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Gibbons in Boiling Hot Soup




Given our patchy access to Internet, updates to our travel blog are likely to be more on a post-dated basis than for whatever happened today. Anyway we survived Flight Of The Gibbons a few days back! It’s much safer than we thought – the insane notion of flying around using zip-lines at the near-canopy level of the forest. Go google about it if you’re keen, with some of our pics posted on Facebook here.


Our nice driver who also happens to be a Christian, later brought us to a nearby hot springs to soak the weariness away, with a mysterious alchemic post-effect – our wedding bands minted in silver turned gold. And strangely it regained its silvery appearance a few hours later in the van. Either the hot spring waters had some interesting chemical composition that flirted with our rings, or our jeweler sold us fake stainless steel ones.

Then our 2 nice Japanese friends (the Yamaguchis) from the Gibbons gig scooted by the hot springs to join us! Apparently the practice of cooking in eggs the hot springs is a norm in Japan (and for Thailand), so we had great fun watching the eggs boil away for a small egg party thereafter.

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