Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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We got up after 6 and only had breakfast around 7am Cindy had a bit more energy and it didn't look like it would rain as much. At some point Marcus told us how someone had a hernia problem for months before going to the doctor for something else and finding that they needed an operation, made me think that I should probably get checked up. We eventually packed up and left around 8am and Max was probably the only one with dry shoes as nothing had really dried overnight. We came to a small temple and there were some large bamboo canes and Cindy said does anyone want to climb, so I thought why not and shimmied 5 or so metres up. then Hannah and Max went up and I went back down, while Max just kept going and got really high (photo below). We were still walking at a similar pace as yesterday but as we'd left late this time we were the last group to make it to the tea break stop where we were joined by 2 dutch girls: Iris and Lotte who were doing the 2 day trek and had got here this morning by motorbike. We carried on walking and the weather was ok with only a bit of rain but as it was the rainy season the path was still muddy in places. I looked down at one point and saw this strange snake/worm thing moving in an unusual was, Cindy had shown us a really small snake the other day but this didn't look like that especially not the way it moved. Then I saw another had attached itself to my shoe so it was probably a leach. I shook it off and carried on walking. When we stopped a bit later I felt a small pain in my shoe so I thought it was probably a stone but when I took my shoe off it turned out to be a leech , so I waited while Cindy got done salt out to get it off. Max had had a leech on day one and had pulled it off and been bleeding for while but salt did the trick and I didn't bleed. We next stopped for lunch and the other groups there had already eaten and were lying around. Again the food was good especially the avocados. We weren't in a hurry to move on as usual so some of us lay down for a bit. The next bit was a bit hilly and maybe not quite as muddy. We came to a water area which had been promised for us to swim in but the water was all brown so only Hannah, Max and Cindy went in after first walking around a man with his buffalo who was already in there swimming. The rest of us stood around looking at the dirty water and then sat around. I took off my left shoe and discovered a leech hanging on my sock but not on me so I took the sock off and try to get it off but it wouldn't move. I left the sock and took off my other shoe and found 2 leeches one squashed and dead the other I flicked off. I got the other leech off my sock and moved to drier ground as the leeches really love me (something Cindy said - must be my blood). Meanwhile the local climbed on his buffalo and did a somersault before leaving the pool. We stayed a bit then went off trekking again and I was really trying to avoid any leeches. We got to a nice viewpoint and the French girl had a bigger leech on her. After that she said every stone or small pain and you wonder if its another leech. It was really very muddy and slippery in places and we also had to cross a stream but at least it was only water when I got a bit wet.
It was getting late and we had been moving fairly slowly all day and we had another hour to go and there was some concern that it might get dark before we got there as it was partly uphill as well but we managed to make it as it was getting dark and we found the French people already at the monastery playing football. A shower later with at least a wall for male and female showers and we were all ready for lunch which was again good especially the soup which we had 2nds and 3rds of. We stayed sitting around the table, Cindy did some logic or joke type problems and after that Iris did some magic tricks with cards. Again we all went to bed early but it was too early for me so I tried reading my kindle but then they turned off the lights and I didn't want to run my head torch battery down so I went to bed as well.
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