Our sleeping room
The beds
Leslie and Pam's bed
The far bed
Our incredibly short door.
I think it was so short so as too keep the smoke inside the hut......
The fireplace in the hut, for keeping away mosquitoes?
Super sketch hot water heater...
That provided hot water via a fire...
Tooth brushing/sink facilities
with the shower room in the background
SPIDER TIME
He was eating some strawberry bread I believe......
Butterfly!
Bathroom
A squatter of course
Breakfast
The view was pretty amazing
Kitchen facilities
A huge wok, the biggest I have ever seen...
And
it was full of rancid oil.....
With bugs...
Which they cooked in....
A very blurry picture of the sinks
These flowers were actually huge, like 4 inches
Banana tree overlooking the sink
Spider's back!
Dima ordered food, and the bus driver picked it up for us (thank god!)
Look at that yummy smoky wok.....
Dima, just you know, crushing a tree!
(Helps that it was hollow)
Had to shimmy our way through some rocks
Megan had to give our guide a bit of a shove...
Everyone else!
It was a tight fit
Angel
The sacred tree
With a ladder
Climbing this tree, and going on this hike, made us official members of the Banu (?) tribe
Lizard just chilling on the rope!
Most interesting root/branch I have ever seen!
Just chilling
Working out way though the tree
Baby face spider
Aliman showing us the tree
This is the man who took out a loan to purchase the land.
The whole reason that this was set up for tourists is so that he can pay it back
Government assistance was offered, but refused.
They wanted to remain autonomous.
Digging
Still digging
We planted a tree that represented our time there
The whole area was full of little trees that people had planted
The leaves around the base were ceremonial
We each picked some, so they represented us
Pam watering our little guy
Tree!
We did this, while singing, to promote its tall growth and long life
Explaining how to make mochi
Dumping the rice in
Starting the crushification process
Going at it
Yum, crushed peanuts
Making it pretty!
PONCHO!
Neat knife sheath
Close-up
Megan and her battle with Poncho...
She might have been winning at this point... ;)
Buddah's hair fruit...
Seriously delish!
Arriving in Kenting
GOATS!
Giant ship in the distance
Woot woot
Weather detector thing...
Looks like a green soccer ball to me!
Dang it, I really wanted to stick around...
Installation art at the southern most point
sunset!
:)
I really liked this little eatery place
Love how this is normal here
Sunsets!
Lighthouse that has created tons of conflict
It was really necessary, but aboriginals were not happy about it
Pam died at this point
Oh, what's this?
Shoot....
Walking away now, quickly...
Little bird
End of October here... :)
Gorgeous sunset
Gift shop area temple...
YES, Mexican food for the win!
I kind love this lady...
At least they put it nicely! ;)
Trying to be as happy as that model...
Don't know if I can....
:)