Ayatthuya again.

Today was filled with even more excitment than yesterday. We jumped aboard our bikes again and headed back to the Ancient Palace. We took a different route this time and managed to see more of the island.

We rode past the elephants just in time to see them putting on the most hilarious show I have ever seen. I think the elephants have been watching the Ellen Degeneres show as they spent half the time just dancing- which made my day! They were grooving to a Thai version of 'the final countdown'. They did many tricks but most excitingly they hoolahed some hoops on their trunks and best yet- this man put his legs around the tusks of an elephant and hung upside down, then he put his head inside the elephants mouth and the elephant stood up on his hind legs! it was incredible. We were so blown away that we forgot to get the video recorder out and so we came back later and wtached the show again. I could have wtached those elephants for hours.

Off to the Ancient Palace - these ruins were pretty amazing- dating back like 1000 years (I guess we couldn't read much info). We also saw this huge bronze Buddha that was 12.6 metres tall- it was quite breathtaking.

Afterwards we headed back to the elephants - gave them a feed and decided to ride elephants up North as we want to go on a ride through jungle area on bareback if possible. I can't wait to love elephants at the camp!

We are now exploring a more Western part of the island that has a KFC etc. Tim ate a square donut and seemed to really enjoy himself!

Oh and when riding our bikes we saw this huge lizard that looked like a goanna- I nearly fell off my bike in fright. But pretty cool! Also seen some super cute little gecko things.

anyway running out of net credit. tomorrow we leave and head to Lopburi- Monkey town! YAY!