We had so much fun in the rainforest! It was such an adventure and we needed a change of pace very badly. We hired a guide so we didn't get lost, and he helped ID plants and animals along the hike. He had binoculars and a telescope with him, so we got a better look at creatures way up in the trees. We saw so many different animals, insects, and plants. Our guide taught us how the parasitic fig tree slowly kills its host tree by choking it out with its giant roots. He also taught us how to differentiate between male and female gibbons by the sound of their call. We saw tiny baby monkeys and gibbons, and got to watch a baby monkey nurse its mother. We saw waterfalls, giant turtles and lizards, and a flock of hornbills eating fruit from a tree. I could ramble on forever about how absolutely amazing it was!! The experience was everything we hoped it would be. This post will be about the forest, and I'll put the animals in a different post because there's a lot! Another really cool thing we found was bear claw marks on a tree! There are two bear species in Thailand: the sun bear and the Asiatic black bear. We would go back in a heart beat!
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| Putting on our leech-protection socks |
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| Don't approach the wildlife! |
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| Fig tree |
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| Our guide following the sound of gibbons |
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| Bear claw marks on a tree |
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