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The beautiful elephants of Chiang Mai. 清迈漂亮的大象
The tour company picked us up in a van in town the next morning, and we met our companions: three Canadians celebrating their recent college graduation, and a retired couple from Belgium. Eventually our driver deposited us in the bend of a hilly road somewhere in the Mae Tang valley, and we set out with our Thai tour guide. The tropical woods that we hiked through were loud with the shrieking cacophony of insects, but it was tranquil all the same.
第二天早晨，旅游公司派出卡车到小镇上接我们，我们也见到了我们的旅伴：3个正在毕业旅行的澳大利亚人和一对来自比利时的退休夫妇。最后在美塘（Mea Tang）山谷里，司机把我们丢在曲折的山路上，我们开始和我们的泰国向导上路。我们穿过的热带丛林里嗡嗡的昆虫声不绝于耳，但却一直感觉很静谧。
We played in waterfalls, ate fried rice packaged up in banana leaves, packed away our watches because there was no need for them. Our guide knew the woods like someone who had been in them his whole life, picking herbs, spotting a stick bug that was all but invisible to me, trying to coax out a tarantula when he ran across its hole.
我们在瀑布里玩耍，吃包在香蕉叶子里的炒米。我们打包时没有带手表因为根本就没有必要。向导时不时地摘摘草药，指给我看我完全忽略掉的蝽甲，经过狼蛛洞穴时试图把它引出。他对这里熟悉到就像一生都在这里度过。
