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Thailand  My Rating  My Review  The activities themselves were
ok. You get to ride an elephant through the jungle (on a chair,
not bareback), see a hill tribe (or at least a tourist street
fair version of one where the 5 people that are there are there
to sell you expensive knick knacks), and ride a bamboo raft down
a river (if sitting there staring at water for 20 minutes is
really your thing). My problem with the whole thing was the
passivity of the entire trip. This trip is designed for fat and
lazy foreigners and you literally don't have to do much except
walk between your different modes of transportation. The 90
minutes of elephant riding gets old pretty quick, especially
when it's only broken up by 5 minutes in the hill tribe village
(you can go through the 5 stalls in less than a minute, but we
lingered for a bit...). The river rafting was the ultimate in
boredom for our gro