This mornings adventure was a bit more subdued that yesterday’s. The group was driving to the country side to see how the people live. Salt is ready for harvest in the marshy waters and coconuts are also ready. We also had a chance to visit an orchid farm. Flowers are very important to Thai culture and they are everywhere. Exotic orchids , Pride of Barbados, Bougainvillea and the ever present marigold, bloom happily along side zinnias and Mexican petunias. We were ferried in a long tailed boat down a series of canals and saw how people really live in this area. Houses sit alongside the canal, laundry hangs in the sun to dry, old men watch the boat traffic and old women sell various goods from their boats. Soft drinks, water, beer, coconut pancakes, coconut ice cream, fried bananas, satay, mangoes, hats and fans are all there to buy. Lunch was an assortment soups, rice, fish, pork and chicken. Fresh pineapple juice decorated with an orchid and the ever present watermelon for desert. Tomorrow we leave for the River Kwai.