{"id":1054,"date":"2010-08-12T05:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2010-08-12T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:39:06","slug":"the-lost-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"The Lost World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ao Nang-<\/strong> Did an elephant trek here today. Went for a ride atop the local megafauna Elephas maximus<\/em>. These beasts of burden now take tourists around instead of logging. The other day one of their cousins, a 22 year old female up north in Lampang Province stepped on a land mine<\/a> along the Burmese border and it gave me a little perspective on these gals down south who don’t have it so bad I rationalized.<\/p>\n

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Drinky, drinky. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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And we're off! Follow your nose. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eyeing up the farang in her midst. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Don't bother me, I'm eating. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our guide takes a well deserved smoke break with a coconut leaf cigarette. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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My beast of burden works up an appetite and wrestles palm fronds. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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End game. Time to wallow in their mud. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reporting for duty! She is already gearing up for the next group of tourists.\u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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