Today we got up around 7:00am to the sound of roosters and the smell of a fire burning in the other room. Mr. Noom made us some tea and a huge breakfast of omlette and 4 pieces of toast each! Could not eat it all but they definately are making sure we have enough! Today is a full moon which means no one works in the village. I watched Mr. Noom's mother light spirit candles and she did some prayers beside me.
We headed out around 9am and walked to a waterfall. The walk again was challenging but great. Along the way our guide was chopping down bamboo trees and gathering white worms that were in them. He said he was going to be eating them later.......which he did. Anyway, the waterfall was beautiful and here we had our lunch. That morning Mr. Noom had made pad Thai and wrapped it in banana leaf for us. It was outstanding. Also while we were sitting around he made us a spoon out of bamboo and made some cups. He and his cousin started a fire and made a "kettle" out of bamboo and made us some tea. He also noticed we looked tired so they went into the forrest and brought back a bunch of banana leafs and made us a bed to relax on. It was amazing.
After lunch we walked for about 4 hours to the next village. It was a challenging walk especially since our path was grown over. Mr. Noom had to cut the entire way! We arrived at our destination just before 6pm. This villiage was more of a partial village. There was only about 4 families left living there. The rest had moved to another village. There actually was only one man there. It also was more rugged as well and our "shower" was from a water hose. There was no toilet either. Mr. Noom made us rice and fried vegetables that was amazing. Shockingly someone had actually carried in coke and beer so we had that as well! Oh, and we watched them eat worms as well, and adam even tried them. I could not get over the fact that they were worms......We went to bed again just before 8pm. This night we all slept in the same room on the floor. Great day!
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