Saturday was our day of exercise. On the agenda was: butterfly/orchid farm, elephant riding, lunch, bamboo rafting OR white water rafting, then trekking to a village and waterfall. Up after 5 hours of sleep but I wasn't feeling bad at all! Zach on the other hand slept until the very last second the guy came to pick us up. Saw Jana and Manfried at breakfast time, wished them luck on their two day trek, and we were off. We had a group of: 5 Chinese (the one girl was the absolute postcard of a princess--she wore a coat over her head the whole time to avoid the sun), 2 Italians (who were not friendly), 2 Parisians (not French, Parisians, and they were great!), 2 Hollanders (lovely), and us. We were all crammed in the back of
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