11-08-2010, 10:58 PM
I can't believe I haven't uploaded any of this stuff yet...
You may or may not know that I went jungle trekking around Thailand and close to Laos and Burma over the summer. It was a truly awesome trip and the Thai people were absolutely wonderful! We did quite a lot of stuff such as caving, white-water-rafting, trekking, canoeing and so on but I did, of course, have an ulterior motive, which was to see a proper jungle for myself!
As I was utterly plagued with camera nightmares the entire holiday, I wasn't able to take shots myself. This meant that I couldn't quite get the textures I was after and the flora and fauna shots that might serve as inspiration for BM. Some of the tangled trees had me particularly agog and no one seemed to get particularly great shots of that....ah well.
However, here are some shots convey to some extent what the trip was about. They're sadly lacking in genuine undergrowth pics and stuff like the Iguanas, pythons, scorpions (I ate a cooked one - hurray!) and leeches that we saw but it shows a little bit of the places and creatures....oh yeah, and that's me mounting the elephant.
You may or may not know that I went jungle trekking around Thailand and close to Laos and Burma over the summer. It was a truly awesome trip and the Thai people were absolutely wonderful! We did quite a lot of stuff such as caving, white-water-rafting, trekking, canoeing and so on but I did, of course, have an ulterior motive, which was to see a proper jungle for myself!
As I was utterly plagued with camera nightmares the entire holiday, I wasn't able to take shots myself. This meant that I couldn't quite get the textures I was after and the flora and fauna shots that might serve as inspiration for BM. Some of the tangled trees had me particularly agog and no one seemed to get particularly great shots of that....ah well.
However, here are some shots convey to some extent what the trip was about. They're sadly lacking in genuine undergrowth pics and stuff like the Iguanas, pythons, scorpions (I ate a cooked one - hurray!) and leeches that we saw but it shows a little bit of the places and creatures....oh yeah, and that's me mounting the elephant.