Most visitors to Thailand have a good-sized list of things they want to experience in the country and riding an elephant is usually one of them, but if they knew the treatment those elephants are forced to endure, most would probably make a new list. The problem isn't the riding itself, though. Unless, you top the scales somewhere around the 'morbidly obese' range (that's a … [Read more...]
Just Hanging Out and Chewing Some Watermelon
Apparently bats don't just suck blood. Maybe it's simply the red color, but this bat in the hills of Kintamani, Bali in Indonesia really seems to be enjoying that piece of watermelon. It also seems huge (the bat, not the watermelon), so maybe the locals feed it fruit to keep it full and keep its mind off their blood (yes, I know only vampire bats live on blood)... This … [Read more...]
Jagat to Tal: Our First Real Day of Trekking
When I left off last time, we had just checked into our guesthouse in Jagat and were looking forward to a solar heated shower. Getting one would turn out to be a little more difficult than you might think. The little shower room looked like the boiler room of an aircraft carrier, with a maze of pipes covering the walls and ceiling and buttons and dials of all sizes dotted … [Read more...]
Funny Photo Shows How to Kill a Dance Craze
This funny sign from Gibraltar is warning visitors not to mock the monkeys, because apparently their feelings get hurt. And when their feelings get hurt they bite. I've written about the thieving monkeys in Thailand in the past and am fully aware that our simian friends can possess the same annoying traits found in us humans, so it really comes as no surprise that they might … [Read more...]
Food Photography for Sharks
In general, a photo like this one from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia would be more at home on a shark's food blog than my funny photos section, but in this case, the food got away. No one wants a photo of food they didn't get to eat and the happy ending for us humans makes the picture kind of funny. It also tells me not to go swimming anywhere near this area. This … [Read more...]