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The beautiful elephants of Chiang Mai. 清邁漂亮的大象
The tour company picked us up in a van in town the next morning, and we met our companions: three Canadians celebrating their recent college graduation, and a retired couple from Belgium. Eventually our driver deposited us in the bend of a hilly road somewhere in the Mae Tang valley, and we set out with our Thai tour guide. The tropical woods that we hiked through were loud with the shrieking cacophony of insects, but it was tranquil all the same.
第二天早晨，旅游公司派出卡車到小鎮上接我們，我們也見到了我們的旅伴：3個正在畢業旅行的澳大利亞人和一對來自比利時的退休夫婦。最后在美塘（Mea Tang）山谷里，司機把我們丟在曲折的山路上，我們開始和我們的泰國向導上路。我們穿過的熱帶叢林里嗡嗡的昆蟲聲不絕于耳，但卻一直感覺很靜謐。
We played in waterfalls, ate fried rice packaged up in banana leaves, packed away our watches because there was no need for them. Our guide knew the woods like someone who had been in them his whole life, picking herbs, spotting a stick bug that was all but invisible to me, trying to coax out a tarantula when he ran across its hole.
我們在瀑布里玩耍，吃包在香蕉葉子里的炒米。我們打包時沒有帶手表因為根本就沒有必要。向導時不時地摘摘草藥，指給我看我完全忽略掉的蝽甲，經過狼蛛洞穴時試圖把它引出。他對這里熟悉到就像一生都在這里度過。
