Day 12

Today we were supposed to have a day to do whatever we wanted, but basically had the day scheduled for us to do a bunch of touristy things in the area.  It was a little frustrating to find this out, simply because almost all of our time here has been scheduled for us, and I don’t feel like I’ve gotten a chance to go out and explore the area without the entire group, but the day ended up being really fun.  We started out by riding elephants!!  

Then we drove through the mountains and taking pictures at some really scenic sites.  

 We also got to check out a hydroelectric dam and do some shopping.  Once we got back we went to another showing of the traditional play (because apparently the last one wasn’t very good at all) and a martial arts presentation..  We were going to do a night safari after that, but it had rained and we were pretty exhausted after the day.