My first notebook I don´t know what kind of issue are you interested in. I would like to write about something more interesting than vacations, but is my first entry and for the momento I´m not dare. I had been in Thailand. My vacations lasted 20 days. I visited the north, the centre and the south of this amazing country. It was a special experience, culture is more different than mine, I learnt more about Asian culture, their way of life... Nevertheless, the different áreas inside the own country have features that make them uniques. Buddishm, Islam, mountains, jungle, beaches, touristic áreas, markets.... I would like to tell you something I didn´t know before this travel, is about the elephants. When we were preparing the activities we saw many pics in internet that shows people enjoying riding elephants. It wasn´t an activity that we thought to do because we didn´t like specially, but as we wanted to visited the jungle, and all the trekkings included the activity, we thought that meybe we could do it. Was then, when we began to look into about elephants... and what was our surprised we discovered that elephants jaus carry on over their back just 100 kg, and the chair weight 50 kg... It was a big surprised. It is so sad, we read that elephants are in many cases abused. we dicided not to do it. During our stay in the north, in a a city named Chiang Mai, we tried to hire a trekking along the jungle that not included the riding over elephants... when we were about to decline to do this activity, fortunately, we found a trekking that not included this activity. We made a trekking for two days and it was amazing. In addition we found a recovery centre of elephants that had suffered abuses. We visited it and enjoyed feeding and washing them in an enviroment of the respect. Thank you very much for your time. Please excuse my awfull english, I promised that I attempt to improve it. See you!