We woke up to our fifth day to a breakfast of french style bread rolls with omlette and watermellon. Like most of our meals here, they dont last long...
Packed and ready to go, we played games once again created by our park guide to build bonds in our team. We than took a tour of the long house we had slept in the night before. We were showed ropes that were used to catch wild elephants, how the locals ferment their rice wine and were than lucky enough to be treated to a traditional musical performance by the village elders. It was a couple and the man was 93 years old but was never out of breath when playing. You would never have guessed his age!!
We than left to go and ride some elephants. Everyone was quite excited. It was a wonderful experience. They took us along small dirt paths up hills and through the forest, we even done a river crossing and the elephant Mrs Lelay and I were on decided it wanted to dive a bit deeper than was planned, soaking the man riding at the front. The elephant Boyde and Chloe were on decided it just didnt want a swim, so they had to go around the long way. There was another river crossing where Meggan and Brooke's elephant decided it was a good time to go to the toilet, leaving a trail of giant floaties.
The whole ride was longer than expected, about an hour or more. We than drove to a coffee and peper plantation where we learnt that the worlds most expensive coffee was actually made of squirrel droppings. Back in the city we had a lovely lunch at a resterant to celebrate Callum's birthday, which both he and Mrs Lelay forgot about until about this point..
Than it was onto another bus for a long, windy, bumby trip up into the highlands to reach Dalat.
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