Elephants and marijuana...What a combo!

Today, Tanya and I went on an elephant trek about 20 minutes from Ao Nang. The elephants were so cute and it was a bit scary at first sitting on top of one. We were afraid we were too heavy for the poor thing. I think we went on our trek during it's lunch time because it kept eating all the palm trees and finally stop to eat some grass on the ground as well as take a really huge dump! Never saw anything like it...We were told an elephant poohs more than 200 lbs in a day...Puts us all to shame! After his lunch and our walk around the beautiful limestone cliffs and palms trees we stopped and fed the elephant some pineapple and began talking to a man that works there. We found out that the papaya field to our left was the setting for the marijuana fields in the movie, "The Beach". You all remember the part of the marijuana fields where some people get gunned down? Anyways, I guess the production company took out all the papaya trees and planted all the marijuana 3 months before the shoot. After the part was finished, they burned all the marijuana and replanted the trees. The man said that the whole town was very smiley and relaxed after the marijuana was burnt...I wonder why?! So, of course we had to go stand in the field and take pictures even though there was no marijuana left. The little restaurant place that we were sitting at had tons of pictures of them in the fields, children and all. They said they met Leonardo DiCaprio when he was there. That area was also used for 3 other movies. Swiss Family Robinson, Around the World in 80 Days, and a new one, Mystery Island. That just goes to tell you how beautiful the place is. Tomorrow, we are going to another place where "The Beach" was filmed. Famous Maya Bay...The actual beach from the movie.

A little part about the sunsets here. I have never seen anything like it before. The sun is so big and red...It's truly amazing to see. If your a sunset buff, you have to see the Thai sunsets!