Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai, the highest mountain in Thailand. 因他農(nóng)山國家公園,清邁,泰國最高的山
That evening we stayed in a one-room cabin in a hill-tribe village, a place with a tiny school and maybe a few dozen houses and not much else.
那天晚上我們住在一個山村聚落的小屋里,只有一個房間 。這里有一個很小的學(xué)校和十幾戶人家,然后別無它物 。
Kids wearing shorts and T-shirts chased each other around their yards, water buffalo meandered on the single street, and in the evening, after our guide cooked dinner, we built a fire and some of the villagers stopped by to see us — some to sell handmade bracelets or bottled water and beer, but some just to see the farang — the Thai word for foreigner.
孩子們穿著T恤和短褲在院子里相互追逐,水牛在唯一的街道上漫步 。晚飯后,我們生起火,有當?shù)氐拇迕駚砜次覀儭械氖菫榱速u掉手工的手鐲或瓶裝的水和啤酒,有的僅僅是為了來觀看farang——泰語里指外國人 。
The bathroom was an outhouse, which I got used to, and bed was a blanket on a wooden floor, which made my back ache. The next morning, our guide cooked eggs, and we hiked again and cooled off in more waterfalls. A pick-up truck took us to the Huay Poeng Elephant Camp, where we rode elephants and bought them bananas, and then to a river where guides rowed us along a lazy stream in bamboo rafts.
廁所在屋外,這個我還能適應(yīng)。 。但毯子加木板做成的簡易床讓我的背很疼 。第二天,向?qū)е罅穗u蛋,我們繼續(xù)出發(fā),對于沿途的瀑布也冷靜了不少 。后來一輛卡車接我們到華彭(Huay Poeng) 大象營 。我們在那里騎象、給象買香蕉吃,然后去了一條河流 。向?qū)г诰従彽乃髦袨槲覀儎澲穹?span style="display:none">S1OQ8KQ!k[SJH
I’m keenly aware that going on a trip like this requires you to wrestle with the ethics of your visit. The elephants we rode seemed like they were treated fine, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have deeper questions about the morality of keeping them in captivity just for tourists like me to ride.
我很喜歡這種能夠親身體驗當?shù)厣畹穆猛?span style="display:none">,g1Hb!eWGSw。這里的大象似乎都是在不錯的條件下馴養(yǎng)起來的,但我仍然質(zhì)疑剝奪大象的自由、讓它們一生為像我這樣的游客服務(wù)是否合理 。