Hello, I'm back again with my adventures and my pictures. For my last one, we were in China. This one, we are in Thailand. It's been almost 3 months since my last post. Here are my new pictures that I hope you will also enjoy.
Sincerely,
Colin
In Yangshuo, China, we went into a lot of caves. There was this one that only me and my brother, Emmett, could go through, and it was called the "rebirth hole". It was super small and even we could just barely get out.
We also went bamboo rafting.
Also, in Yangshuo, we went up into a mountain and we saw the whole entire small town.
Hong Kong was a big city and I took this funny picture of my mom.
In Hanoi, Vietnam, there was a Vietnam/American War Museum. There were lots of guns...
...bombs, knives...
...and airplanes.
We went to a water puppet show, which is puppets that are attached on pieces of wood. They do the puppet shows in the water.
We went on a cruise in Vietnam. It was a very nice one. Unfortunately, Dad got a migraine headache and threw up. We went kayaking. It was one of the many things you could do.
In Phong Nha, we went on a bicycle ride to the Pub with Cold Beer. On the way, we saw two water buffalos. One was a baby, and the other was a mom. And we slaughtered our own chicken at the Pub with Cold Beer.
Also, we went into a cave where we first hiked through the jungle.
Next, you had to go bouldering.
Then, we swam into the mouth of the cave. I am the youngest to go in so far.
Then you took a rapid river to go back and you were only holding on to a rope.
We did another bike ride in Phong Nha and we passed a bunch of what we call "cow-mels". We call them that because they look like a cow, but they have a hump like a camel. We passed a herd of them walking down the road with a bunch of small babies.
On the way from Phong Nha to Hué, we stopped in the tunnels where they hid from the Americans. It was 7 meters underground! That is 23 feet deep. And there were a bunch of secret exits where they would cover up with leaves. They were small so that the Americans couldn't get into them because of all their Army gear.
On the way to Hoi An, we passed an American fort that had clearly been attacked because of all the bullet holes.
In Nha Trang, we stayed in an apartment and we went swimming almost every day, except for the last day which was Mom's birthday and we went to an amusement park.
The amusement park was called Vinpearl Land and we went into the aquarium. We saw small great white sharks.
There were also different tunnels, the Ben Duoc tunnels, outside of Ho Chi Minh City. This small hole is what they used to get into the tunnels.
In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we went to the King's palace. These were the color suits they would put on for every day of the week. Red was Monday, yellow was Tuesday, purple was Wednesday, light green(ish) was Thursday, dark green was Friday, blue was Saturday, and maroon was Sunday.
We visited Angkor Wat and we saw a lot of the temples. This was the first one we visited.
This was the Angkor Wat temple.
If it had multiple stories of steps, it was a king's temple. If it was flat, it was the king's ancestors' temple.
When we were driving to another temple, we stopped to look at the monkeys when, suddenly, we realized that they were climbing all over the car, like on the roof!
And they were climbing all over the windshield, so we had to stay put a little bit longer.
We were still visiting Angkor Wat for 3 days, and we passed by a nice lake.
And we fed monkeys from a bottle.
This was the temple that we were visiting.
On the way back on the last day, we stopped at a crocodile farm, where they raise and kill crocodiles for the skin.
After Angkor Wat, we went to Battambang and saw a bunch of bats fly out of a cave at once.
In Bangkok, Thailand, we visited the Red Cross, where they take the snake venom and use it to make antivenom and to study the venom. This is a cobra.
A lot of the snakes had camouflage. Try to find the snake in this picture!
They used to squeeze the venom out, but that's not good for the snake, so they don't do it that way anymore. Instead, they make the snake bite on a little plastic cover that goes down into a funnel, and the venom comes out. The way that the venom comes out is: when the snake opens its mouth, it's basically like squeezing a water ducky. Muscles push the venom out of a little hole in their mouth.
My favorite snake kept doing laps around his cage. He would go around and around this fake piece of stone.
In Chiang Rai, we stayed in bamboo huts in the middle of the jungle. Electricity went off after breakfast, and it came back on when most guests were getting ready for bed. Which is dark. We hiked to a waterfall and swam.
There were a bunch of different kinds of tuk-tuks in Thailand. Different cities had different kinds of tuk-tuks.
In Chiang Mai, we swam in a canyon, which we thought might have actually been a quarry once where they had mined clay (because there was a bunch of clay). You could jump off a high point, and Dad did that. Me and my brother, Emmett, couldn't because you had to be above 18.
We also rode on elephants and went on another bamboo raft.
Afterwards, we washed the elephant.
The elephant that we washed was Dee Dee.
They taught the elephants how to kiss you. Basically what they did was put their trunk on you and just suck.
I sat on the elephant's neck and there was a command that was "bon" and the elephant would lift up its trunk so you could throw sugar cane in its mouth. But it could also be used for other things.
Those are some of the recent adventures that I've had! --Colin
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