So I am in Thailand and I guess it is time to venture to the Jungle. Khoa Yai National Park (Big Mountain in Thai) is one of the worlds greatest national parks. It is beautiful I will give it that, I do not know if one day in the park was ample time to visit but it is all the time I had for now. Maybe once school is out I can venture in for a few days. I however did get to see some good wildlife and would love to share my pictures.
This is a whip snake...later in the hike I will see a white one of these but he was not so keen on posing for the camera. We saw this guy from the road. Next we entered the jungle. Out tour guide kept poking sticks into holes in the ground trying to find a scorpion...and then we did. We found "Jackson" a scorpion that has a hole right on the path many tours walk through every day so I guess we can call Jackson a celebrity scorpion! I mean he clearly was used to posing for pictures. Unfortunatly I chickened out big time on putting the scorpion on my body...much to the tour guides dismay since he shoved it in my face like 4 times and then rest of the hike kept turning back and going ah scorpion trying to scare me...ya this got old fast. Anyways the thing is huge and I could not help but wonder if "Only hurt a little bit when it stings, not posionous and will only sting if it is angry," was any way lost in translation,. When we asked our guide about things biting you (snakes, scorpions, b
ugs etc.) he seemed to have to categories not go to hospital and go to hospital. Not very concrete answers at least not concrete enough for me to start touching things! So anyways Jackson- who is actually female and pregnant made it on Melissa's arm so I will share that picture with you. Jackson really is not posinous. Bigger scorpions are not posinous they use there body mass and big claws to fight...smaller scorpions are the ones to worry about they have venom. So moving on we did get to see a Black Gibbon which was cool, these are pretty rare. They are monkeys, but stay up in the trees so are hard to find. I only got the back of this one...but their faces and hands are white which are cool. This was some of the wildlife we saw, unfortunetly not wild elephants, but maybe next time!
This is a whip snake...later in the hike I will see a white one of these but he was not so keen on posing for the camera. We saw this guy from the road. Next we entered the jungle. Out tour guide kept poking sticks into holes in the ground trying to find a scorpion...and then we did. We found "Jackson" a scorpion that has a hole right on the path many tours walk through every day so I guess we can call Jackson a celebrity scorpion! I mean he clearly was used to posing for pictures. Unfortunatly I chickened out big time on putting the scorpion on my body...much to the tour guides dismay since he shoved it in my face like 4 times and then rest of the hike kept turning back and going ah scorpion trying to scare me...ya this got old fast. Anyways the thing is huge and I could not help but wonder if "Only hurt a little bit when it stings, not posionous and will only sting if it is angry," was any way lost in translation,. When we asked our guide about things biting you (snakes, scorpions, b
ugs etc.) he seemed to have to categories not go to hospital and go to hospital. Not very concrete answers at least not concrete enough for me to start touching things! So anyways Jackson- who is actually female and pregnant made it on Melissa's arm so I will share that picture with you. Jackson really is not posinous. Bigger scorpions are not posinous they use there body mass and big claws to fight...smaller scorpions are the ones to worry about they have venom. So moving on we did get to see a Black Gibbon which was cool, these are pretty rare. They are monkeys, but stay up in the trees so are hard to find. I only got the back of this one...but their faces and hands are white which are cool. This was some of the wildlife we saw, unfortunetly not wild elephants, but maybe next time!
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