A day in a village

Yesterday was an epic day. A good kind of epic though. Not a sick kind. I felt tons better and that was nice when we had another long day outside. One of the Journeys Within tour guides walked us around his village which was out in the country, a place not seen by tourists so women came up to us to touch our fair skin. Here's a bit of a photo essay to describe the day.

It started with a tuk tuk ride through some pretty potholey roads:




We stopped at the guy's uncle's house who had a wine making place in his backyard:



And then we drank rice wine from a coconut shell. It was EXTREMELY strong and tasted like a straight shot of vodka. I'm down for trying new things though. Not sure why people would want to drink when it's this hot outside.



Some guys in the village shimmied up coconut trees to get coconuts for us to drink the juice. We watched them hack at the fruits to chop off the top and make the bottom flat and then they put straws in and handed us each one:



Next we rode a boat to an island with ruins:




Mom, don't look. We definitely didn't pay $2 to ride 3 people deep on motorbikes from the boat to the ruins:



When we got onto this random island we looked at the ruins and then saw this monk sitting in a little hut. He was 80 years old and tells fortunes. I got him to tell mine and it said, "Wherever you go, you will be ok." So that's nice and settling.



This was the super sturdy dock we stepped off the boat onto. I love this picture but it looks like a scary movie or something:



And right before we went home we ate fried crickets: