Goading crocodiles must be a hard way to make a living. This was at the Samphan Elephant Park. It was eerily quiet there indicating that Thailand's recent turmoil has really impacted on the tourist trade.Graham and Liv went of a ride on an elephant - each time the elephant took a step the seat seemed to slip a bit further Grahamward. He is wearing the Pinkie Hat which I bought there.
We went to a floating market. In the brochures advertising this tour there were hundreds of boats over flowing with flowers, fruit and other fresh produce. After a 90 minute drive we arrived at a back water canal in which lumps of floating rubbish far outnumbered boats. A few old ladies sold cooked squashed bananas and the inevitable street market was full of
people desperate to sell.
This is the lady who had never seen a pinkie hat before and was desperate to have it for her granddaughter. It undoubtedly looks a lot less silly on her granddaughter than it did on Graham or me but I was sad not to have it for some days. Never mind, Bangkok residents were probably a lot less amused and unkind than Londoners would have been to see Graham walking about in it.
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