Rainy season

As its draws into mid November today the rainy season has pretty much ended and we only get the odd light shower every couple of weeks. During the rainy season though it was a different story and we had a range of different types of rain, a couple of times it was very heavy rain and it lasted 5 or so days which meant lots of flooding around Thailand. In Chiayapum it's mostly flat land with some mountains and when it rains we get dried up rivers flowing with water, fish and the chance to see some nice waterfalls. This pic is of the flooding river near us and this pic was taken on a bridge, you can see how high the river came up as the trees are not normally submerged.

The flooding was not only around the sides of the river but flowed through rice and sugar cane fields nearby and over the "road to civilisation" from my village. Don't worry we like to make good use of the the flooding road and get our bikes cleaned. You can see how high above the road the water came by looking at the people wading in the background and they weren't even in the deepest part.

After about 4 days after the rain stopped, so the water becomes clear again, me and Moni's dad headed up one of those previously dried up rivers into the mountains/jungle for some fishing and a chance at catching some crabs. There was about 5 or so waterfalls on our way varying in size and im sure there is a lot more further on but we were stopping and fishing at the time so we didn't go too far up the river.

Where's Wally... i mean Moni's dad :P

Oh and yes we use bamboo fishing poles because I am what the Thai's call "Falang Khi Nook" which literally translates to bird shit foreigner and what it means is I'm a cheapskate. :P