NomadGirl Travels

About a two hour drive north of Chiang Mai, Thailand is where the three day trek began for my visit to the Northern Villages of Thailand began. The first leg of the trek was about two hours to the village where we were going to spend the night. It was a bit more difficult than I had anticipated. I didn't really think about the physical aspect of the trek much, it is a lot like hiking in the Rocky Mountains, except that at home, I don't go for overnight hikes that last for days. Perhaps I should have given this a bit more thought! I had difficultly with the downhill parts and fell on my butt a lot. We finally arrived in the tribal village where we were going to spend the night. Dogs and chickens and other farm animals were everywhere! We put our stuff in the guest house (a shack with beds for fifteen people, right in the middle of the yard with all the animals. Then our trekking guide, Sammy, took us on a tour of the village. The first house we visited had chicken and pig bo

Orlando Bloom lied. On the “Behind the Scenes” disc of the extended DVD set for the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, he told his co-star Dominic Monaghan that bungee jumping would cure his fear of heights. They were in New Zealand where A.J. Hackett created the extreme sport of bungee jumping.  I went to New Zealand on a working holiday visa and was really excited to see the filming locations for the Lord of the Rings movies. When I first arrived in Auckland - because I am afraid of heights - I was quite positive that I would not be bungee jumping, despite the fact that I was in the country where it all began.  Everyone who suffers from acrophobia has a different experience with heights. I have trouble getting down from chairs, bunk beds, ladders etc. However, I have been in a hot air balloon, on ski lifts, gondolas, the London Eye, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower. No problem with those because I was either strapped in or it didn’t seem like I was really hi