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The days following my return, I slept A LOT. I spent about 3 hours of that weekend awake, meaning that I slept for 45 hours and missed a lot of bonding time with my family. I don’t even remember waking up to eat. Re-adjusting to city life was a bit difficult. Though I wasn’t goneContinue reading “The Days After the Trip”

Today was- bittersweet. Leaving a place where I spent almost a month and learned so much was sad, but it was finally time to return to my family and home. A group of us had flights at 6 and 7am, so the drivers were set to pick us up at 4am because the traffic inContinue reading “Day 18 (1/23/2020)”

Breakfast was amazing, as always. There was a large breakfast bar with super elegant seating. But, we had to hurry and eat in order to make it to our activities on time. Today, we visited Freeland and other Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), whom had a lineup of lectures for us. Some were about animal conservation, othersContinue reading “Day 17 (1/22/2020)”

Today we went to a university to attend a lecture about human-otter conflict. We learned that this type of conflict was prevalent in a muslim-majority community. I found this interesting because most of what we saw were Buddhist, so this was the first time we were seeing a community with a different religious practice fromContinue reading “Day 16 (1/21/2020)”

We left for Bangkok today. Bangkok is definitely the “New York City” of Thailand. There’s tons of traffic, public transport, and people! Our hotel was gorgeous. We stayed at the Avani Sukhumvit, which is a 5 star hotel, and it was attached to a mall AND the subway station. We presented our final project atContinue reading “Day 15 (1/20/2020)”

Today, we were in the van A LOT, again. But, it felt different because we have presentations tomorrow! The drive consisted of a lot of researching and communicating with team members. We also learned about the initiative the Royal Family is taking to help save elephants and visited a large farm with a lot ofContinue reading “Day 14 (1/19/2020)”

I felt horrible from being sick so I missed out on the lecture from this day, which was upsetting because we learned about my favorite type of wild cat: the Pallas cat We visited 2 places to be lectured about Pallas cats. One in Kui Buri National Park and the other at Sam Roi YodContinue reading “Day 13 (1/18/2020)”

The first time I saw monkeys outside of our cabin was when we first got to Khao Yai National Park a few days ago. The second time was when we were getting ready to leave. It’s as if they were saying goodbye. We left to see a train market, which is a huge tourist attraction.Continue reading “Day 12 (1/17/2020)”

This day, we spent the whole day at another village. They were very kind and prepared lunch for us. They held a mini lecture about gaurs, which is kind of like a wild cow. We drove around the village to learn about their crops and their methods to stop elephants and gaurs from raiding crops.Continue reading “Day 11 (1/16/2020)”

On the tenth day of my trip, this is what we saw: ONE WATERFALL We saw amazing structures and trees on the way there, but it was a long and steep trek. And getting back to the van was even more horrible (we had to go DOWN to see the waterfall, so guess what weContinue reading “Day 10 (1/15/2020)”