We missed the bus.

After setting a number of alarms and quadruple checking the time of the pick-up, we picked up some breakfast rice (very leisurely) and sauntered to the meeting point in order to hitch our ride, only to discover that it had left half an hour ago. After some initial panicking and rice flinging (mainly from Ellen) we decided to negotiate with a tuktuk driver to take us all the way to the elephant sanctuary (1000 BHT). Being slightly less of a headless chicken than us girlies, he offered to contact the company, and they came back for us, so all was well and we arrived Continue reading →